Scene Edit Detection
scene_edit_detectionDetect scene edits in selected Premiere clips, then create segmentation markers or razor cuts at each detected boundary. Use sensitivity controls to tune detection for your footage.
Instructions
Perform Premiere's scene edit detection on the selected clips in the active sequence (it analyses the footage and can take minutes on long clips). CreateMarkers (default) puts Segmentation markers on the selected clips' source project items (shared by every sequence that uses them), removes duplicates this run created (markers that were already there are never deleted), and reports each detected cut in source and timeline seconds; it is verified only when at least one new marker was added. ApplyCuts razors the selected clips and verifies the clip count grew. EXPERIMENTAL QE: CreateMarkers records an observed marker boundary for guarded Undo/Redo; crossing it is refused by default, and unreadable history records unknown protection. This boundary does not verify native marker reversal.
Tool call template
This tool declares no required parameters. Add optional parameters from the input schema as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {},
"name": "scene_edit_detection"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| action | No | Create markers (default) or apply cuts to the selected clips | |
| sensitivity | No | Scene-detection sensitivity (default: MediumSensitivity) | |
| idempotency_key | No | Optional client-chosen key (1-128 chars of A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : -) for this intended edit. Pass a fresh key per edit and reuse it only when retrying that same edit, for example after a client-side timeout. A repeat with the same tool, key and arguments is not run again: while the first call is running it fails with IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS (poll get_last_operations); after it finished it returns the original outcome marked replayed. A definite failure with nothing applied (receipt outcome not_applied) may be retried with the same key. Reusing a key with different arguments fails with IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED. Scoped to this MCP session (the stdio server process, or the HTTP server process when Streamable HTTP is stateless per request) and held in memory only (200 keys, 1 hour); it does not survive a restart or reconnect. Read-only invocations are never deduplicated. | |
| expected_cep_target | No | Optional reviewed CEP sequence/clip identity and exact tick ranges. Checked before every generated command; UXP refuses this CEP-only guard. | |
| expected_project_path | No | Optional absolute saved-project path. Every generated CEP command refuses before its body when the active project differs or is unsaved. UXP commands refuse this CEP-only guard; local-only tools do not inspect Premiere. Omit to keep existing behavior. | |
| apply_cuts_to_linked_audio | No | When applying cuts, also cut linked audio (default: false) |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| ok | Yes | Whether the tool completed successfully. | |
| data | No | Tool-specific result data when ok is true; on failure, diagnostic detail when the tool provides it. | |
| tool | Yes | The registered MCP tool name. | |
| error | No | Failure detail when ok is false. | |
| receipt | No | Versioned common mutation receipt; success never implies rendered verification. | |
| idempotency | No | Present when idempotency_key deduplicated this call: replayed is true when the original outcome was returned instead of running again. |