Great products often come from personal frustration. While working on video projects, I hit a major workflow bottleneck in Adobe Premiere Pro: there was no native way to randomize clip order for fast-paced edits or montages. The existing solutions were clunky external scripts that required users to leave the app and break their flow.
I engineered a native extension that lives directly inside the Premiere Pro interface, solving this problem seamlessly. Built using Adobe CEP (Common Extensibility Platform) and ExtendScript, the tool interacts deeply with the Premiere API. It recursively flattens nested project bins, handles complex clip timing (calculating precise ticks and gaps), and allows editors to generate randomized sequences instantly.
Impact: The tool has now been downloaded over 8,000 times with a 4.9-star rating on the Adobe Exchange. It has become a standard utility for many editors, proving that even "small" tools can have outsized impact when they effectively solve a specific user pain point.