Simple Python - Alternating Colors in Media Panel

[bryanb]

I made a simple script that helps you change the color of items in the Media Panel. Selected items are colored (based on your choice) in an alternating pattern of lighter/darker to help visualize what’s going on in a hopefully helpful way.

If you don’t use color coding, your Reel Group might look something like this:

If you use the standard color coding, you might do something like this:

This is better but it might still be hard to distinguish between all the red reels or green reels.

My script will give you this context menu:

And the result will look something like this:

This only works when you have selected multiple of the same kind of item (Reel, Clip, Library, etc).

I hope someone finds this usefull.

_BB_alternating_colors_002.py (3.8 KB)

[philm]

@bryanb - very nice bryan

[krystenr]

Super useful, cheers Bryan

[ytf]

Great work, but what I would like to see is a set of hotkeys that turn selected clips certain colours. Is there dialog in this .py that might be reworked to accomplish this? If so, I might give it a go myself.

[philm]

@ytf - this behavior should start manifesting with the new tagging/color system from 2025.1+

[ytf]

Good to know.

[bryanb]

Anything that’s a python hook gets a Keyboard Shortcut entry. So you could hotkey these colors if you wanted to. If you have one item selected it will get the darker color.

[philm]

@bryanb - and if you can select all objects with a specific tag, you could apply this lovely solution that you’ve made.