Get current MovieClip datablock name?

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Does anyone know how to get the name of the currently displayed ‘MovieClip datablock’ in the MovieClip editor?

Apparently, I need it to get the ‘Start Frame’ of the active datablock like this:

bpy.data.movieclips["what is the name"].frame_start

Thanks

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there is not “one” active clip, every instance of a movieclip editor has one. You can get all from current screen like:

[area.spaces[0].clip.frame_start for area in bpy.context.screen.areas if area.type == 'CLIP_EDITOR' and area.spaces[0].clip is not None]
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That does work.

for area in bpy.context.screen.areas:
    if area.type == 'CLIP_EDITOR' and area.spaces[0].clip is not None:
        print(area.spaces[0].clip.frame_start

Thanks:eyebrowlift:

4

well i love to write one liners recently :wink:

“bpy.ops.” + “.”.join(bpy.context.active_operator.bl_idname.split("_", 2)[0::2]).lower()

…
locs_sorted.append(min((((l-loc).length_squared, i) for i, l in enumerate(locs_inner, j))))
…