Using Numbered Clipboards in ProTools

[rsl]

Hello , I’m trying tp work out if I can copy and store several items from ProTools to numbered clipboards , so that each time I open KM I can paste those individual clipboards back into ProTools. Eg. I’ve copied different pan automation to different Clipboards and I can always paste those back into ProTools by recalling a clipboard number. Don’t know if I’m asking too much ? Thankyou.

[kevinb]

First experiment to see if you can do it with one item. Automation data would be unique to Pro Tools so it is likely that copying and pasting such data would be handled internally and therefore not shared outside the application. If you can find evidence that “copied” pan automation is in fact made generally available, then a solution might be possible, but not otherwise.

[ComplexPoint]

For example, you could start by performing, in your DAW, a copy of the kind that you have in mind, and then report here what you see on running a macro like this one

Clipboard Viewer

Allows us to inspect all clipboard type bundle ids, and any textually representable data that they contain, in JSON format. For example, if we we copy an object in OmniGraffle, it gives us a JSON representation of all the object properties, which we can use in a Javascript action. OmniGraffle arrow as clipboard data Or, if we copy a Note Link in Quiver we can see which Clipboard type keys hold the name of the Quiver note, and which contain a URL: Clipboard contents after Quiver > Copy Note …

[peternlewis]

Use Copy to Named Clipboard action to copy the pan automation thing to your clipboard.

Then use Paste from Named Clipboard action to paste the saved thing to ProTools.

Verify this works by using the Copy to Named Clipboard to save the thing you want, then quit ProTools, copy something else (anything) normally (Command-C), launch ProTools, and somewhere new use the Paste from Named Clipboard to paste the saved pan automation.

It may work, or the copied data may contain temporary internal information that does not survive long term.

[Evan_Mangiamele]

Copy and Pasting of automation and basically any data other than strings is internal to Pro Tools and unfortunately isn’t accessible in named clipboards in Keyboard Maestro.

[ComplexPoint]

Yes – I found that too – no NSPasteboardItems are created in the Pro Tools Copy Special operations. i.e. nothing, of any UTI type, is placed in the system clipboard.

[rsl]

Thanks everyone, worth a try. Just reluctant to pay a subscription to SoundFlow as I’ve got so many useful KM shortcuts working. I’ll try another ‘clunky’ route. Thanks.