Programming for Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas?

[oracle2025]

Hi,

I was wondering where to find find resources about how to program some simple image processing plugins for Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas. I am only interested in simple stuff, one colorspace, preferable RGBA, and some simple GUI controls, like sliders and eventually custom widgets.

I already know about the freeframe plugin sdk, but I think it is limited to generic parameters, so no custom widgets possible.

BTW. I am used to programming under the Linux Operating System, so I feel a little intimidated by the Idea of working under Windows. :-(

Thanks for your Help.
Cheers
-Richard

[oracle2025]

So, I am answering to my own post:

I have found the Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 SDK (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/premiere/sdk/2_0/), but there seems to be no support forum associated to that product, only some kind of Professional Support Program (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/premiere/devcenter.html), which is not for me as I am a hobbyist. :-(

[oracle2025]

Ok, found something for Sony Vegas as well, but no support forum too.

Video Plug-In Development Kit (http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=210)

[JohnnyMalaria]

Yup - that's about right.

Adobe's SDK is pretty poor - it forces you to implement stuff you don't want to and doesn't provide much in the way of examples of any real value.

Beyond its mediocre plug-in development kit, Vegas is much better because it exposes a COM automation interface with an extensive arrray of functions.

I was a long-time Premiere user (since 1994) but switched to Vegas recently partly because of the superior programmability. I haven't gotten around to doing anything yet, though.

[oracle2025]

I've had a quick look into the Adobe SDK, and I actually quite liked what I found, there is simple image-processing filter example which pretty much provides what I want to do.

The only thing that seems to be missing for me is that the manual doesn't mention much about how to use custom "Widgets"/GUI-Controls for controlling Filters. :-(
It seems as if it is only intended to display a custom dialog at "Setup-Time", but not for later adjustments.

I am sure that it is possible, because some plugins do that as far as I have seen, but not in a documented way I guess.