Moving timeline playhead

[MarcoP91]

First of all, thank you very much for this repo, I am enjoying it a lot.

I wanted to ask, is there a way to move the playhead? If I add to the timeline a list of MediaPoolItems, they get added one after another; I would like to add a video and an audio file "at the same time". Is that possible? If not, is there a way to set the time location of a MediaPoolItem?

[MarcoP91]

I have done it:

timeline.settings._obj.GetCurrentTimecode() to get the current playhead position

timeline.settings._obj.SetCurrentTimecode('01:00:20:00') to move it to the specified position

[MarcoP91]

My bad, by using mediapool.append_to_timeline() the new clips get added at the end nonetheless. }
Is there a way to modify the time location of a MediaPoolItem?

[in03]

Hey @MarcoP91! Pydavinci doesn't fully support all of Resolve's API yet, but unfortunately I don't think even Resolve's API supports inserting clips into timeline yet... I haven't got Resolve handy atm, but you can check the scripting README in your copy of Resolve to see what's supported.

[in03]

timeline.settings._obj.GetCurrentTimecode() to get the current playhead position
timeline.settings._obj.SetCurrentTimecode('01:00:20:00') to move it to the specified position

Also @MarcoP91 not sure if you're aware, but PyDavinci's timecode property is Resolve's Get/SetCurrentTimecode. I noticed the property setter is missing though, so I've added that ready for the next release, but it should be as easy as:

timeline.settings.timecode to get current playhead position
timeline.settings.timecode = "01:00:20:00" to set it 😄

[MarcoP91]

Ok, thank you 👍

I created a workaround with osascript, I'll leave it here:

`query = f"""
osascript -e '
tell application "Davinci Resolve"
activate
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
key code 123
delay 0.1
key code 123
delay 0.1
keystroke "y"
delay 0.1
keystroke "d" using command down
delay 0.1
keystroke "{seconds}"
delay 0.1
keystroke return
end tell
end tell
'
"""
os.system(query)

`

[SW-Daren]

Apparently AppendToTimeline() has some new parameters in DR 18 that allows for this. See this forum thread for details: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=113040

[LittleTerry]

Apparently AppendToTimeline() has some new parameters in DR 18 that allows for this. See this forum thread for details: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=113040

cool!

[pedrolabonia]

Fixed in by #28

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