Macro help needed: Name audio track after selected audio event

Nuendo
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Hi,

I am trying to put together a rather basic renaming macro:
Copy the file name of a selected audio event and paste it into the audio track name.

I figured out the sequence of commands that does exactly that
(with audio track and event selected)

It works well when I run the sequence as a chain of single key commands.
Though, when I put this sequence in a macro it does not work.

1 Edit - Edit Info Line (highlight the audio file name of the selected event)
2 Edit - Copy (copy name into buffer)
3 Focus - Escape
4 Edit - Rename First Selected Track (highlight track name)
5 Edit - Paste (paste the copied audio file name into track name)
6 Enter

The problem is macro step 2: Nuendo is copying the selected audio event into the buffer – not the highlighted audio file name from the info line.

If I manually highlight the file name in the info field I can perfectly copy it into the buffer via Command+C or dropdown menu “Edit > Copy”. If I let the macro do the “Command+C” step, it copies the audio event even though the info line is highlighted.

Can anyone confirm this behaviour?
What could be a solution?

Thanks!

2

My first call for the whole task would be the Project Logical Editor. I’m quite confident that this mighty tool should be able to achieve what you have in mind.

3

Yeah, I been looking into PLE first, yet could not find a way to “grab” the name of a selected event.

4

But can’t you combine PLE with a macro that “grabs” them from the Project Browser …?

5

Not sure actually. Easy to locate / highlight the selected audio file in the project browser, yet I can’t find a way to access and copy the file name from there either - except for manually.

Simply copying the file name from the highlighted info line should work both manually hitting command+c as well as letting a macro do the same. Smells like a bug that the macro step is copying the event even though the info line has focus?!

6

Sounds like the macro is working too fast. Can’t remember if you can insert pauses or not with the macros. I have to do this all the time when I use my gaming keyboard for os macros. HTH.

7

Solved it with applescript, delay was not the issue