Get selected Clip Name

It works like a charm!
Thanks a lot!

Hey @Brian_Mullany, nowadays I would opt for a different approach for this.

Updated Feb 4th, 2025 — Fades are now removed by default (Thanks Chris Shaw!)

/** @param {{ includeFades?: boolean }} [args] */
function getSelectedClipInfo({ includeFades = false } = {}) {
    const selectionInTime = Number(
        sf.app.proTools.getTimelineSelection().inTime
    );
    const selectionOutTime = Number(
        sf.app.proTools.getTimelineSelection().outTime
    );

    const fullySelectedClips = sf.app.proTools.getSelectedClipInfo().clips
        .reduce((clips, clip) => {
            if (!includeFades) {
                if (clip.clipName.startsWith("(fade") || clip.clipName === "(cross fade)") {
                    return clips;
                }
            }

            const clipStartTime = Number(clip.startTime);
            const clipEndTime = Number(clip.endTime) - 1;

            const isClipFullySelected = clipStartTime >= selectionInTime
                && clipEndTime < selectionOutTime;

            if (isClipFullySelected) {
                // Remove any extensions from clipName (.L, .R...)
                const clipName = clip.clipName.replace(/\.\w+$/, "");

                // Filter repeated clips
                if (clips.some(clip => clip.clipName === clipName)) return clips;

                clips.push({
                    clipName,
                    trackName: clip.trackName,
                    startTime: clipStartTime,
                    endTime: clipEndTime
                });
            }

            return clips;
        }, []);


    const names = fullySelectedClips.map(clip => clip.clipName);

    return { clips: fullySelectedClips, names };
}

const selectedClipNames = getSelectedClipInfo().names;

log(selectedClipNames);

This script does the following:

• Gets clip info through the PT SDK, which is more robust than scraping the UI.
• Fixes an issue with the original SDK command where adjacent clips would be listed as selected.
• Removes multichannel duplicates (i.e. stereo files would be listed as two different files).

Hey @Brian_Mullany, I just updated my script above incorporating Chris' method of removing fades, that now allows us to easily get the first selected clip name like so:

const selectedClipNames = getSelectedClipInfo().names;
const firstSelectedClipName = selectedClipNames[0];