Zoom Chat to PPro Markers

Import a Zoom .chat File for a Recording as Clip (or Sequence) Markers into Adobe Premiere Pro.

• How It Works
  • AddChatMarkersToClips
  • AddChatMarkersToSeq
  • ImportFilesWithMarkers
  • SelectChatFileToImport
• Getting Started
  • Download JSX Files
  • Set Folder for Extension (in Premiere)
• Development
  • Install
  • Build
• Credits

How It Works

This section contains a brief description of what each script does.

AddChatMarkersToClips

Iterates over each media clip in the project (clip or file), and for each one looks for any *.chat files in the same media path or folder, and if found imports the Zoom .chat File as clip markers into the Adobe Premiere Pro project.

Useful info is logged by the script into the Events Panel in Premiere.

AddChatMarkersToSeq

Warning

This script is deprecated, and might not work as intended. Use with caution.

Same as above, but adds the Zoom .chat File as sequence markers (e.g. attached to the active sequence) instead.

ImportFilesWithMarkers

Opens a file browser window, and prompts the user to select media files to import. Imports all selected media files into a new project bin called My New Bin.

Then, searches under the same media path (or folder) for *.chat file(s), and for each imported media file in the bin, imports the Zoom .chat File as clip markers into the media file in the Adobe Premiere Pro project.

Useful info is logged by the script into the Events Panel in Premiere.

SelectChatFileToImport

Opens a file browser window, and prompts the user to select a Zoom .chat File. Locates all media clips in the project (clip or file) that share the same media path or folder as the selected *.chat file, and for each one imports the .chat file as clip markers into the media clip in the Adobe Premiere Pro project.

Useful info is logged by the script into the Events Panel in Premiere.

Getting Started

Steps to get this working in Adobe Premiere:

1. Download and activate the JSX Launcher Extension on Adobe Exchange:

   • https://adobe.com/go/cc_plugins_discover_plugin?pluginId=12096&workflow=share

2. Download .jsx files and save it to a local folder -- see Download JSX Files below.

3. Open Extension in Premiere, choose Select Script Folder... and then folder with the .jsx file.

   See Set Folder for Extension (in Premiere) for help.

4. Open or create new Premiere Project.

5. Drag any media file(s) into the timeline, so that a default sequence is created.

   The folder (or media path) of each media clip should contain the corresponding *.chat file to import markers from.

6. In JSX Launcher window, Click the AddChatMarkersToClips button to run the script.

7. Chat Markers should be added automatically to each Media Clip (Audio / Video file) in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Download JSX Files

Open up a Terminal on Mac (use Cmd + Space and search for Terminal).

Use mkdir to create folder where you want to download the *.jsx file, and optionally cd to navigate there.

Assuming you want to create a folder under the User Home ~ directory (Mac):

mkdir ~/PPro-Files

Now download the AddChatMarkersToClips.jsx to that folder:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rnag/zoom-chat-to-ppro-markers/main/minified/AddChatMarkersToSeq.jsx -o ~/PPro-Files/AddChatMarkersToClips.jsx

Or, if you'd also want to download SelectChatFileToImport.jsx and ImportFilesWithMarkers.jsx:

files=(AddChatMarkersToClips.jsx SelectChatFileToImport.jsx ImportFilesWithMarkers.jsx); for f in ${files[*]}; do curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rnag/zoom-chat-to-ppro-markers/main/minified/${f}" -o ~/PPro-Files/"${f}"; done

Set Folder for Extension (in Premiere)

1. Navigate to Windows > Extensions > JSX Launcher
2. Choose Extensions flyout menu "Select Folder..." (in the ≡ menu of the extension panel)
3. Select your folder that includes the .jsx (Extendscript) script file of the script. The panel will collect .jsx files and generate buttons.

Development

Install

Download the .zip file or clone the project from GitHub. Example with ssh (requires Terminal and Git):

git clone git@github.com:rnag/zoom-chat-to-ppro-markers.git

Then open Terminal, cd into the downloaded repo folder, and install all project dependencies with npm:

cd zoom-chat-to-ppro-markers
npm i

Build

To compile typescript .ts files to .jsx, run the following command in Terminal (or within a console in VS Code):

npm run build

Credits

• Made a script for importing a .csv of Vimeo review notes as markers into Premiere

• How to import CSV as markers?

• ExtendScript Starter (Premiere)