Dynamic load to time

[bsmith96]

Similar to adapted load group to start of selected child, but one which finds any sfx that would currently be looping and haven't been stopped yet, and loads them / starts them

[bsmith96]

Probably:

• Loop through all cues
• Check for looped audio cues before selected cue
• Find stops for above
• remember looped audio cues not stopped before selected cue
• loop through all cues again
• find fade cues (not fade and stop) targeting the above
• CAN YOU LOAD TO TIME BY APPLESCRIPT?
• start the looped audio files and fade cues, ideal loaded to time to get the final levels
• (try to do the second loop through simultaneously with the first?)
• This only works for looped sfx - anything with long durations where subsequent cues are fired over them (e.g. long music) wouldn't be able to be loaded automatically. Unless it's possible to do Memo Cues with approximate times when the cues are fired.

[bsmith96]

You can load to time with applescript.

Early draft - just load selected cue to time of duration and fire? To launch the loops?

[bsmith96]

Also!

• a load most recent desk scene script
• a load all desk scenes from first to most recent script, for when your show uses a lot of recall scopes.

Perhaps a single script with a variable to decide between the two, when setting up the show

[bsmith96]

Make two version perhaps?

"Load selected cue to loop"

And

"Load all previous cues to loop" (obviously excluding those that would have stopped)

The second, coupled with the "load previous desk cue" could be very helpful for tech

[bsmith96]

First draft done

Maybe try:

• Define a function for audio cues to check for - infinite loop

• Go four (?) Levels deep in groups, if cue is audio then run function else if cue is group: go deeper

• Add infinite loop audio cues to the next item in a list

• Define a function for fade and stop/stop cues to to check if they target any cues in a list, and if they do, delete that item from the list

• For each item in the resulting list, load to end and start.

This method would NOT work if you target groups with a stop or fade and stop cue.

I guess the solution to that is to make a separate list of all groups that contain an infinite loop cue (or to target the largest group with the load to time?).

Something along the lines of "if the stop targets the audio or the parent of the audio or the parent of the parent of the audio" etc. But stop if the relevant parent is q list "Main Cue List" (or just "a cue list"?)

Repeat 5 times
  If parent of theCue is not a cue list then
    Set theCue to parent of theCue
  End if
End repeat

(Could put the "is this targeted by a stop?" Check in the middle of the above snippet?)

[bsmith96]

Would this work for devamps too?

There are applescript things for cue infinite loop and last slice infinite loop, but not middle slice infinite loop, so this may not work

[bsmith96]

This worked surprisingly well