Timeline - generate track/clips from assets by name via script

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Hello, I’m working on a cinematic with timeline tools and have some shots with around 20 characters and mocap data that needs to be attached to them.
I decided to make a game object per shot, with all the instances of the characters, and than make a timeline with all needed animations. Finally those timelines would be nested in a master timeline with Cinemachine and what not.
Now - I have all animations per shot named and arranged in my Assets folder, and I made a script that creates the root game object and the required number of instances. It also creates the timeline, and a track for each character, bound to the respective animator. The only thing I can’t figure out is how to create the clips in the timeline. I got the names of the animations like this:
string[ ] anims = AssetDatabase.FindAssets(wildcard);
and managed to create empty dummy clips like so:

            AnimationClip clip = new AnimationClip();
            AnimationPlayableOutput output = AnimationPlayableOutput.Create(graph, clip.name, tmp.GetComponent<Animator>());
            AnimationClipPlayable playable = AnimationClipPlayable.Create(graph, clip);
            output.SetSourcePlayable(playable);

            TimelineClip timelineClip = track.CreateClip(clip);
            timelineClip.duration = clip.averageDuration;
            timelineClip.displayName = clip.name;

So how do you create AnimationClip from asset path?
Note: the script is not intended to run in game mode, only in the Editor, to automate this task.

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Ok, it turns out it’s way easier when you got few hours of sleep :slight_smile:
AnimationClip clip = (AnimationClip)AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath(AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(anim),typeof(AnimationClip));