How do i select only items that are not in region?

[mrmong]

Is there a way or have any one written something that will only select items that are not in a region or

Context is I’m copying sets of items across different projects that have differently named regions which i will need to paste the copied set of items from my master session and then rendering them out. This involved quite a bit of manual moving. Was wondering if theres such a script or a way to just select the stuff that are not in a region so that i can move them in?

[Yanick]

Originally Posted by mrmong

Is there a way or have any one written something that will only select items that are not in a region or

Context is I’m copying sets of items across different projects that have differently named regions which i will need to paste the copied set of items from my master session and then rendering them out. This involved quite a bit of manual moving. Was wondering if theres such a script or a way to just select the stuff that are not in a region so that i can move them in?

But what if there are several regions?

[mrmong]

Originally Posted by Yanick

But what if there are several regions?

Yep! so the idea i guess is to select items that are outside of any region or at least the first item that do not belong to a region within a session that may have over 800 regions to slowly align..

[mrmong]

UPDATE 1:

I managed to come up with something that kinda works like this:

1)looping through every single region to check if there is an audio file,
2)if there is a file add it to a table
3)select everything in the table
4) Invert selection
5) This then selects all the items that are not in a region.
6) However when i do a count after the inverted selection it seems to be giving me every item in the session..


This works but i think it could be a lot better as i would like to have more flexibility like being to look for the first item that is not in a region so i could ripple edit and move the files back 1 region

I guess the other way would to be
1) add all items in selected track to table1
2) do the loop and check if there are any items in a region, add to table 2
3) compare the 2 table to get the items that are not in a region then add those items into table 3
4) select items in table 3, somehow get the first item in table3...

I'm not a programmer and i'm having issue trying to get the compare working even after diving into google for hours..

[Thonex]

You can do a Custom action with these:

•Script: X-Raym_Select all items in current region at edit cursor.lua
•Item: Invert selection

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Andrew K