Simple script. Create a marker for each selected clip with a specific name

Hi, @FACUNDO_GZ,

Great question! For memory locations, it's best to be able to provide a memory location number for each memory location you create.

So in script form, this is what I would do:

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();

// Find the highest Memory Location Number in the session 
let highestMemoryLocationNumber = Math.max(...sf.app.proTools.memoryLocations.invalidate().allItems.map(memLoc => memLoc.number));

/* Set the nextMemoryLocationNumber to the (highestMemoryLocationNumber + 1) 
if any other memory Locations exist in this session. 
Otherwise, set nextMemoryLocationNumber to 1. 
*/
let nextMemoryLocationNumber = highestMemoryLocationNumber ? highestMemoryLocationNumber + 1 : 1;

// Do for each clip 
sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
    action: () => {
        // Create a Memory Location
        sf.app.proTools.createMemoryLocation({number:nextMemoryLocationNumber, name: 'p', startTime: sf.app.proTools.getTimelineSelection().inTime});
        // add 1 to the nextMemoryLocationNumber
        nextMemoryLocationNumber++;
    }
})

I'm using some sf.app.proTools calls to query the Pro Tools SDK for the current memory location numbers in the session, then determining the following memory location number (either one or the next highest number).

Finally, I'm setting up the "call back action" in the sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip() method a bit differently. In your script, you were calling it like this:

sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
    action: clip => createMarker()
})

For it to run correctly, you would only need to reference the name of the function you had created like this:

sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
    action: createMarker
})

However, because your original script was assigning the same number to each memory location, it would only end up adding a single memory location to the last clip in the selection.

The callback function in my script is formatted like this:

// Do for each clip 
sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
    action: () => {
        // Create a Memory Location
        sf.app.proTools.createMemoryLocation({number:nextMemoryLocationNumber, name: 'p', startTime: sf.app.proTools.getTimelineSelection().inTime});
        // add 1 to the nextMemoryLocationNumber
        nextMemoryLocationNumber++;
    }
})

This is a different way of declaring a function without defining it elsewhere in the script.

I hope that helps!

Cheers,
Chad

Chad,

I can't thank you enough for such a detailed answer.

I learned a lot from it.

I'd like to investigate more to better understand the way that you're declaring the function and it's synthax (ie. how you set it to increment and name the markers within a same block). Any online material that you think will help (if you have the time and patience of course) ?

Thank you!