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Project Item Tools

Batch-Rename Project Items​

Explore the capabilities of Automation Blocks to efficiently batch-rename your project items with a range of powerful tools, including:

  1. Search & Replace: Effortlessly find and replace text within project item names, ensuring quick and precise adjustments.

  2. Add Text: Seamlessly append or prepend custom text to the beginning or end of project item names, streamlining your organization.

Our Search & Replace tool goes beyond the ordinary, offering support for regular expressions, allowing you to craft intricate replacement patterns. For added convenience, you can harness ChatGPT to assist you in creating these patterns effortlessly!

Label Colors​

Organize Your Projects with Label Colors​

In Premiere Pro, label colors are invaluable for maintaining organization, provided your project items are consistently labeled. Our tool, "Change Label Color by Item Type", simplifies this process by allowing you to label all project items according to your personal preferences with just a single click. ChangeLabelColorByType

Identify Used Clips with Labels​

Imagine having the ability to instantly identify which clips in your project panel have already been used in your timeline. With the "Change Label Colors of Used Clips" tool, you can effortlessly assign dedicated label colors to used and unused clips, streamlining your editing process.

Custom Label Color Tools​

We also have a tutorial explaining how to create your own custom tools to set label colors exactly according to your personal preferences.

Moving Items​

Move Used Clips in Sub-bin​

Maintaining a well-organized project is paramount when working in Premiere Pro, and Automation Blocks provides a convenient solution. The tool "Move Used Clips to Sub-bin" is designed to automatically relocate all clips that have already been used in the timeline into a dedicated sub-bin. This intuitive feature grants you instant visibility into which clips have been utilized. Should your clip usage evolve over time, simply run the tool again, and it will update everything as needed.

Organize Clips by Rating in Bins​

In Premiere Pro, you have the ability to assign ratings to clips on a scale of zero to five stars. To make the most of this feature, Automation Blocks offers a tool to automatically sort clips into sub-bins based on their ratings. This means that you can easily group all your five-star clips into a single bin, simplifying your project organization.

Organize Project Items into Bins by Type​

Project cleanliness is essential, and Automation Blocks offers a powerful tool for effortlessly categorizing all project items into bins based on their type. With just one click, you can establish a structured project layout, complete with separate bins for audio files, video files, sequences, nested sequences, and more.

What's more, you have the flexibility to customize this folder structure to match your precise project organization preferences, ensuring that your project structure aligns perfectly with your needs.

Deleting Items​

Remove Unused Footage​

Deleting unused footage items from your Premiere Pro project is a breeze with the built-in menu command, "Edit->Remove Unused." However, Automation Blocks takes it a step further with the "Delete Unused Footage Items" tool, offering additional advantages:

  • Selective Processing: This tool allows you to target specific items, enabling you to remove only the unused clips from a particular bin, for instance.

  • Detailed Console Output: Gain complete visibility into the removal process with a comprehensive console output that precisely outlines which clips have been deleted.

As a bonus, our tutorial provides insights into customizing the tool's block code, so you can create a list of unused footage without actually removing it, tailoring the tool to your unique requirements.

Remove Empty Bins​

When you execute the menu command "Edit->Remove Unused" in Premiere Pro, the application diligently removes everything that isn't used in your timeline—almost everything. It conveniently leaves behind empty bins, which may clutter your project.

Fortunately, Automation Blocks introduces the "Delete Empty Project Bins" tool to address this oversight. This smart tool goes a step further by eliminating not only empty bins but also bins that solely contain other empty bins, ensuring your project remains clutter-free and well-organized.