Script to automate volume automation dips.

I've made a few changes and this works great though I'm sure there are screw cases I'm not taking into account. I got a syntax error if I un-commented the original version that would do it for all selected clips. It complains that you can't have an action as the argument of sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip. Soooo, I came up with a very clumsy way of stepping through all the clips on a track by comparing the previous selectionStart with the current one and if they're the same bail on the script. It works but I'm sure there's a better way to do it.

The other changes were adding the Number function to the selection start and end when doing math on it. Not sure why it would be happy with it standalone but not when you perform arithmetic, but there you go. Another thing I changed is the method for setting the track to Touch mode. I didn't recognise the one that was there and it was giving an error so I put in the possibly older, but functional one.

Anyway, try this and see if it works!

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();

const DME_BUS_NAME = "a DME";
const AUTOMATION_DIALOGS_ENABLED = true;
const VOLUME = '-6';
const FADE_SAMPLE_LENGTH = 76800; //40 frames at 25fps at 48 kHz

function setVolume() {
    if (sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.outputWindowButton.value.invalidate().value !== 'open')
        sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.outputWindowButton.elementClick();

    var win = sf.ui.proTools.floatingWindows.allItems.filter(function (w) {
        return w.children.whoseTitle.is('Volume').exists;
    })[0];

    win.textFields.whoseTitle.is('Volume Numerical').first.elementClick();
    sf.keyboard.type({ text: VOLUME });
    sf.keyboard.press({ keys: 'enter' });

    sf.ui.proTools.automationWindow.writeAutoToSelectionButton.proToolsAutomationClickButton({ autoConfirmation: AUTOMATION_DIALOGS_ENABLED });
}

function processClip() {
    //Save the name of the originally selected track
    //And the selection
    var originalTrackName = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrackNames[0];
    var selection = sf.ui.proTools.selectionGetInSamples();

    //Select the DME_BUS_NAME
    sf.ui.proTools.trackSelectByName({ names: [DME_BUS_NAME] });

    //Set the volume
    setVolume();

    //Make cut on left side

    sf.ui.proTools.selectionSetInSamples({
        selectionStart: Number(selection.selectionStart) - FADE_SAMPLE_LENGTH + 5, //CHANGED
        selectionEnd: Number(selection.selectionStart) + 5, //CHANGED
    });
    sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('Edit', 'Cut').elementClick();

    //Make cut on right side
    sf.ui.proTools.selectionSetInSamples({
        selectionStart: Number(selection.selectionEnd) - 5, //CHANGED
        selectionEnd: Number(selection.selectionEnd) + FADE_SAMPLE_LENGTH + 5, //CHANGED
    });
    sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('Edit', 'Cut').elementClick();

    //Select original selection
    sf.ui.proTools.selectionSetInSamples({
        selectionStart: selection.selectionStart,
        selectionEnd: selection.selectionEnd,
    });

    //Select original track again
    sf.ui.proTools.trackSelectByName({ names: [originalTrackName] });
}

function ensureSettings() {
    //Make sure we have 10 frames as nudge value
    sf.ui.proTools.nudgeSet({ value: '00:00:00:10.00' });

    //Make sure Preview is enabled
    sf.ui.proTools.automationPreview({ targetValue: 'Enable' }, "Couldn't enable Preview mode");

    //Make sure Volume is turned on in Automation Window
    if (sf.ui.proTools.automationWindow.enableVolumeAutoButton.value.invalidate().value !== "Selected")
        sf.ui.proTools.automationWindow.enableVolumeAutoButton.elementClick();

    //Make sure DME_BUS_NAME track is in touch mode
    var autoBtn = sf.ui.proTools.trackGetByName({ name: DME_BUS_NAME }).track.automationModeButton;
    if (autoBtn.value.invalidate().value !== "touch") { }
    //autoBtn.popupMenuSelect({}, `Could not set track ${DME_BUS_NAME} to touch mode`);         //CHANGED
    sf.ui.proTools.trackGetByName({ name: DME_BUS_NAME }).track.automationModeSet({             //CHANGED
        automationModeName: "touch",                                                            //CHANGED
    });                                                                                         //CHANGED
}
function main() {
    ensureSettings();
    // Select the first clip on the source track
    sf.keyboard.press({
        keys: "return, control+tab",
    });
    // Set up variables used to see if we've processed the last clip on the track
    var currentSelectionStart = sf.ui.proTools.selectionGetInSamples().selectionStart;
var previousSelectionStart = currentSelectionStart + 1;
    // While the selection changes keep on trucking
    while (currentSelectionStart !== previousSelectionStart) {
        processClip();
        previousSelectionStart = Number(currentSelectionStart);
        sf.keyboard.press({
            keys: "control+tab",
        });
        currentSelectionStart = sf.ui.proTools.selectionGetInSamples().selectionStart;
    };

}


main();

If it didn't work, here's the best way to get help in those cases:

• Tell us what you did (in this case for example, you assigned a trigger to the script, switched to Pro Tools, selected track X, made a selection, hit the trigger)
• Tell us what you expected to happen
• Tell us what did happen (this is the most crucial part)
• Possibly click the Log and show us the specific error that occured (click SF icon, drag left or click right blue dot, click Open Log File)

The more descriptive the steps, (imagine we'll have to repeat them to get the same result), the better.

In cases where it's hard to describe what happened, a quick screen recording is often helpful and can be faster than trying to explain.
For what did happen, avoid saying "it didn't work", and instead tell us for example "nothing happened" or "I got an error, the error was this: ...." or "the volume didn't switch to -6, it switched to -10" etc.

The more descriptive of the actual steps that you took, what you expected, and what actually happened, the quicker help you'll get :)
Again - welcome to the forum!