Beat detective edit smoothing

Hey Dave, are you wanting to actually run the full beat detective process, or are you doing that part manually and just wan t a command for edit smoothing? The latter shouldn't be terribly difficult, though I got into the scripting early and haven't done much with macros, so I'm not sure how that might work. Happy to write something up for you if you can lay out a step-by-step process on what you would do, which will be replaced by automation.

Hey Dave, give this a try. it does have some additional settings, but they all have default values that you can set. To run it, there are a couple function calls at the bottom that are commented out, just delete the 2 slashes (/) before the smoothEditsBeatDetective(). both calls function slightly differently, but it's easy to just change some values to what you want. Let me know if you have any questions!

/**
 * @param {{ smoothingType: 'Fill Gaps'|'Fill And Crossfade', crossfadeLength: number, closeWindowOnComplete?: boolean, deleteCurrentFades?: boolean }} [args]
 */
function smoothEditsBeatDetective({ smoothingType, crossfadeLength, closeWindowOnComplete = false, deleteCurrentFades = true } = { smoothingType: 'Fill And Crossfade', crossfadeLength: 10, closeWindowOnComplete: true, deleteCurrentFades: true }) {

    sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();

    if (deleteCurrentFades && sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('Edit', 'Fades', 'Delete').isEnabled) sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ['Edit', 'Fades', 'Delete'] })

    const beatDetectiveWin = sf.ui.proTools.windows.getByTitle('Beat Detective');

    if (!beatDetectiveWin.exists) {
        try {
            sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ['Event', 'Beat Detective'] });
        } catch (err) {
            sf.keyboard.press({ keys: 'left', repetitions: 2 });
            sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ['Event', 'Beat Detective'] });
        }

        beatDetectiveWin.elementWaitFor({ waitType: 'Appear' });

    } else {
        beatDetectiveWin.windowFocusClick();
    }

    const editSmoothingButton = beatDetectiveWin.groups.getByTitle('Operation').radioButtons.getByTitle('Edit Smoothing');
    const smoothingTypeButton = beatDetectiveWin.groups.getByTitle('Smoothing:').radioButtons.getByTitle(smoothingType);
    const crossfadeLengthField = beatDetectiveWin.groups.getByTitle('Smoothing:').textFields.getByTitle('NumericEntryText');
    const smoothButton = beatDetectiveWin.buttons.getByTitle('Smooth');

    if (!editSmoothingButton.isCheckBoxChecked) editSmoothingButton.elementClick();

    if (!smoothingTypeButton.isCheckBoxChecked) smoothingTypeButton.elementClick();

    if (crossfadeLengthField.isEnabled && crossfadeLengthField.value.invalidate().value !== String(crossfadeLength)) {
        crossfadeLengthField.elementClick();
        sf.keyboard.press({ keys: 'backspace' });
        sf.keyboard.type({ text: String(crossfadeLength) });
        sf.keyboard.press({ keys: 'return' });
    }

    smoothButton.elementClick();

    const conDlg = sf.ui.proTools.confirmationDialog;
    conDlg.elementWaitFor({ waitType: 'Appear', timeout: 300, pollingInterval: 10, onError: 'Continue' });
    if (conDlg.exists) {
        log('Something went wrong. Ensure there are no fades in the current selection, or that [deleteCurrentFades] is set to true, and that there is a current timeline selection')
        conDlg.buttons.getByTitle('OK').elementClick();
        conDlg.elementWaitFor({ waitType: 'Disappear' });
    }

    if (closeWindowOnComplete) beatDetectiveWin.windowClose();
}


// runs command using defaults: Smoothing - Fill And Crossfade  |  Crossfade Length - 10ms | Closes Window On Completion | Deletes Current Fades
// smoothEditsBeatDetective();


// runs command based on your preferences. ex: Smoothing - Fill Gaps  |  Crossfade Length - 10ms | Closes Window On Completion | Deletes Current Fades
// smoothEditsBeatDetective({ smoothingType: 'Fill Gaps', crossfadeLength: 15, closeWindowOnComplete: false, deleteCurrentFades: false });