Replace clip with set length of room tone script misbehaving

Screenshot here, from another variant of the script that does .5 seconds. That small clip after the selection shouldn't be there, it's almost like a remnant of the clip I was wanting replaced.

There was an earlier version of this script that used restore last selection that didn't do this, but it was prone to failure by putting the room tone in the wrong place if I moved too fast. I posted the last version ages ago in an old thread (Wait for Previous Selection to change?) but I've had no luck tracking down a fix for the new version so far

Hi @Jack_Byrne

It looks like you are using "Min:Secs" format for setting the selection set method, which is not sample accurate when making a selection.

In point form, can you describe the manual steps you take to achieve this workflow? With this information, I should be able to create a sample-accurate version of what you are after, with no pesky audio left behind. :-)

Hi @Jack_Byrne

Actually, this script might do what you need. You just need to adjust the lengthInMinsSecs :-)

const lengthInMinsSecs = "0:03.000"

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();
sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.invalidate();

function timeToSamples({ timeStr, sampleRate }) {
    // Split the string into minutes, seconds and milliseconds
    const [minPart, secMilliPart] = timeStr.split(':');
    const [secPart, milliPart] = secMilliPart.split('.');

    // Convert each part to numbers
    const minutes = parseInt(minPart, 10);
    const seconds = parseInt(secPart, 10);
    const milliseconds = parseInt(milliPart, 10);

    // Total time in seconds
    const totalSeconds = (minutes * 60) + seconds + (milliseconds / 1000);

    // Convert to samples
    const samples = Math.round(totalSeconds * sampleRate);

    return samples;
}

function main() {
    const selectedTrack = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack;
    const selectedTrackName = selectedTrack.normalizedTrackName;

    const trackSelection = sf.app.proTools.getTimelineSelection();
    const { inTime, outTime } = trackSelection;

    const roomToneTrack = sf.app.proTools.tracks.invalidate().allItems.find(t => t.name.startsWith("RT")).name;
    sf.app.proTools.selectTracksByName({ trackNames: [roomToneTrack], });

    const sampleRate = sf.app.proTools.getSessionSampleRate().sampleRateNumerical;

    const lengthInSamples = timeToSamples({ timeStr: lengthInMinsSecs, sampleRate });

    sf.app.proTools.setTimelineSelection({ inTime, outTime: String(Number(inTime) + lengthInSamples) });

    sf.app.proTools.copy();

    sf.app.proTools.selectTracksByName({ trackNames: [selectedTrackName], });

    sf.app.proTools.setTimelineSelection({ inTime, outTime });

    sf.app.proTools.setEditMode({ editMode: "Shuffle" });

    sf.app.proTools.paste();
}

main();

Let me know if that works for you. :-)

This would be a great candidate for turning into a Command Template with presets. To learn more about how to create a Command Template, see the following link.

https://soundflow.org/docs/how-to/custom-commands/command-templates

Little variant to this, is this possible @Kitch?

Occasionally I'll get a narrator will leave gaps that are slightly too long throughout a book, so I need to stop and shorten the room tone that's spliced throughout the book. Is it possible to check if a clip is longer than x length, and if so replace it with room tone of y? And can that be combined with repeat for all clips while I've got all the room tone selected in object select mode? I was messing around seeing if there was a way to do this with clip boundary nudge and using fades as a buffer to stop them getting too small (essentially Andrew Wade's 'dream gate' if you know of it) but as soon as shuffle mode is involved that stops working.

Not asking you to write the script, but if you think it's probably doable I'd like to take a pass at figuring it out myself first, then have some much smarter members show me all the errors I make 😆