[tobestobestobes]

wrt why video editing needs automating: there are a host of repetitive tasks in video editing that are very tedious to do with GUI editors. For instance, labelling shots with shot number overlay text. At the moment you can get quick results for this specific task using other tools such as FFmpeg. Personally, the top item on my wishlist would be a video editing library (Python?) that outputs to Final Cut Pro XML so that I could do final tweaks in a GUI-based editor of my choice.

[dimatura]

I've used moviepy (https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy) with some success. Doesn't do Final Cut export but it uses ffmpeg under the hood, so it could be used to create raw clips in some lossless format.

[rpmisms]

Soory for necro. Editors should know how to code. Lots of editing tools are extensible in Python pretty easily. Sadly, those parts of my career didn't intersect.

[tobestobestobes]

I don't find the Adobe Premiere SDK very intuitive or well documented, nor does it support Python. Looks like DaVinci Resolve does support Python and it seems well documented and intuitive. Thanks for the tip.