Body: <p>I want to get a stationary view on a moving subject, which needs to be staying within his square box on the final video (the camera should follow him).</p>
  
  <p>So far I got away by clicking every 15 second to create a new keyframe and drag the canvas such that the object is centred in the final 1×1 layout.</p>
  
  <p>I am going to automate this with a simple Python script.</p>
  
  <p>The output of the script could be a sequence of coordinates, in whatever format Premiere wants them, so that it would replace my desperate clicking (45 hours of footage overall × 4 × 3600 = 650k clicks). Hence, does anyone know how to import / export keyframes so that I can figure how to craft such a hack?</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, but I don't fancy this, I can crop the video using ffmpeg and import that, but that wouldn't allow for later corrections.</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2020-02-26T08:55:59.000Z
Comments.Text: Premiere doesn't support Python scripting.  DaVinci Resolve does.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jason Conrad
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Comments.CreationDate: 2020-02-26T14:51:56.547Z
Comments.Text: After Effects would probably be more appropriate for [tracking a moving subject](https://youtu.be/tqWWhChc8RA), the process is almost entirely automated.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Ambo100
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Comments.CreationDate: 2020-02-26T16:58:24.657Z
Comments.Text: Yeah, @Ambo100, my student yesterday showed me some dark magic in AE (I've never used before). Haha, I still think programming is easier 
Comments.UserDisplayName: Atcold
Tags: <premiere><adobe><keyframes><automation><script>
Title: Importing/automating keyframes in Adobe Premiere
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ThreadText: # Importing/automating keyframes in Adobe Premiere
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-25)
  
  I want to get a stationary view on a moving subject, which needs to be staying within his square box on the final video (the camera should follow him).
  
  So far I got away by clicking every 15 second to create a new keyframe and drag the canvas such that the object is centred in the final 1×1 layout.
  
  I am going to automate this with a simple Python script.
  
  The output of the script could be a sequence of coordinates, in whatever format Premiere wants them, so that it would replace my desperate clicking (45 hours of footage overall × 4 × 3600 = 650k clicks). Hence, does anyone know how to import / export keyframes so that I can figure how to craft such a hack?
  
  Alternatively, but I don't fancy this, I can crop the video using ffmpeg and import that, but that wouldn't allow for later corrections.
  
  **Tags:** premiere, adobe, keyframes, automation, script
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Premiere doesn't support Python scripting.  DaVinci Resolve does.  
  > **username_2**: After Effects would probably be more appropriate for [tracking a moving subject](https://youtu.be/tqWWhChc8RA), the process is almost entirely automated.  
  > **username_0**: Yeah, @username_2, my student yesterday showed me some dark magic in AE (I've never used before). Haha, I still think programming is easier   
  
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