How to Run Premiere Scripts through Visual Studio Code

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RIP Extendscript Toolkit. Lets dive into how to set up script debugging using Adobe's new Visual Studio Code Debugger.

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[NTProductions]

ExtendScript is far from dead. Visual Studio offers no real new improvements to coding scripts. It is not faster, because scripting is already bottlenecked by the speed of old javascript, and having extra plugins doesn't provide any real improvement either. Definitely wouldn't recommend using VS for scripting for a variety of reasons, including the aforementioned and there is no reason not to use ES.

[scott-dnd]

Eli, you're simply an amazing person. I think you should start an email newsletter, and allow us the previlege to be on the list. As always, THANK YOU!

[GrooveYouVerse]

EH MEH GAWD! I'm so glad you posted this! Adobe just told me that their scripting platform has been abandoned for a long time and are looking to opensource it. Bummer...so I literally stumbled on the Visual Code extension. I'm a happy camper now, and this video makes it easier for me to play with this.

[SorraCollective]

Looking forward to seeing you write some code. I would imagine the search features and suggestive autocomplete will be very powerful tools. Thanks for the video.

[NickNickWaterton]

Thanks for the video! Really useful. Question: is there an equivalent to ESTK's Data Browser in VS Code? I like it for browsing useful data members, methods, etc like an interactive API manual and also for debugging to check the values of variables.

[pearlgames]

Great tutorial! but I get stuck at clicking for a select target application. The problem is that I cant click on it to select something. ctrl+shit+e doesnt work either. Do you know a way to select a target?

[bartbuerman]

Now that a json fie is needed to run a jsx file, would it be possible to make a (desktop) shortcut to run a jsx? For a specific Premiere workflow, I have automated a lot of tasks in a script. Now I have to either run it from ES (or VS), or make it an extension. It would be very convenient to just have a shortcut somewhere to fire off the workflow. Do you think that's possible?