Overwrite() result differs from Overwrite edit

[knhn]

Hi hi,

Been working with PySequence.overwrite() and I wanted to reach out see if anyone could shed any light.

Im trying to overwrite only the audio tracks. I made 2 dummy clips. One is color sources stacked up in Versions with tone stereo mix. The other is an empty sequence.

If I do this manually it works as expected…

1. lock the video track of the target
2. open the target as a sequence
3. select the source & overwrite edit
4. only the audio tracks are edited in

But when i use overwrite() with this (see the script attached below), it correctly ignores video V1.1 from the lock, but edits in V2.1 & V3.1.

1. install the little script below
2. select source first
3. then shift + select target
4. right click > Examples… > Example Overwrite Inconsistency

To me, thats not the expected result. Its like its patching imaginary destination versions.

example_overwrite_inconsistency.py (1.1 KB)

It does work correctly if the color sources are stacked on tracks instead of versions.

I could use execute_shortcut, and might have to end up doing that… just seems a bit low level. Slow.

Thanks in advance for any input.

[dazedinheaven]

I haven’t experienced this exact issue but I’ve had lots of trouble with overwrite() cutting things in at the wrong frame. I have one script that uses overwrite to just plop a slate on frame 1 and it’ll work great for months then one day decide that that actually means frame 1 minus the head-handles of the incoming clip, eg. frame -7 for an 8-handled clip, so then I adjust the script to account for that, which will work for a while, and then it wants it to be frame 1 again seemingly arbitrarily. execute_shortcut() pretty much always works as expected but does slow down script execution in my experience.