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This time, I am posting a utility I made for the movie. This basically is an applescript that I made which copies automations made on Spanner into the corresponding Object Track.
For this to work there are some requisites:
1. The Spanner and the Object tracks must be adjacent to each other. Example if it is a 7.1 Spanner, the object tracks should be next to it and in the order L, C, R, Lss, Rss, Lsr, Rsr, LFE.
2. All tracks must display the Master Bypass Automation lane on the track. So, Spanner will display the Spanner Master Bypass and the Object Tracks will display the Dolby Atmos Master Bypass.
3. It offers 3 choices. 7.1 to Atmos, 5.1 to Atmos and LCR to Atmos. The object tracks should correspond to this.
You will need to make a selection across the length of automation on the Spanner track and then run this app. I have only tested this on Mountain Lion. I think Apple has changed some applescript accessibility in Yosemite. So, not sure if it will work there.
Hope it is useful to some of you mixers.
Link: Click Here
Code for Applescript. Copy Paste into the Applescript Editor.
set myFormat to {"Spanner to Object 7.1", "Spanner to Object 5.1", "Spanner to Object LCR"} set myChoice to (choose from list myFormat) as string set x to 1 set y to 0 if (myChoice = "Spanner to Object 7.1") then set y to 6 display dialog "Make sure your automation view is set to Master Bypass of Spanner on Spanner track and Master Bypass of Dolby Panner on all object tracks and the object tracks are in the order L, C, R, Lss, Rss, Lsr, Rsr, LFE just after the spanner track." tell application "Finder" tell application "System Events" set PT to the first application process whose creator type is "PTul" tell PT activate set frontmost to true --Left X key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat delay 0.2 --Left Y key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat repeat y times set x to x + 1 key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat delay 0.2 key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat end repeat end tell end tell end tell else if (myChoice = "Spanner to Object 5.1") then set y to 4 display dialog "Make sure your automation view is set to Master Bypass of Spanner on Spanner track and Master Bypass of Dolby Panner on all object tracks and the object tracks are in the order L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE just after the spanner track." tell application "Finder" tell application "System Events" set PT to the first application process whose creator type is "PTul" tell PT activate set frontmost to true --Left X key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat delay 0.2 --Left Y key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat repeat y times set x to x + 1 key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat delay 0.2 key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat end repeat end tell end tell end tell else if (myChoice = "Spanner to Object LCR") then display dialog "Make sure your automation view is set to Master Bypass of Spanner on Spanner track and Master Bypass of Dolby Panner on all object tracks and the object tracks are in the order L, C, R just after the spanner track." set y to 2 tell application "Finder" tell application "System Events" set PT to the first application process whose creator type is "PTul" tell PT activate set frontmost to true --Left X key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat delay 0.2 --Left Y key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat repeat y times set x to x + 1 key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat delay 0.2 key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "c" using {command down} repeat x times keystroke ";" end repeat key code 124 using {command down, control down} keystroke "v" using {command down, control down} repeat x times keystroke "p" end repeat end repeat end tell end tell end tell end if
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