FR (API): Split items function in scripts

Hi,

I would love to be able to split items in timeline with scripting API,
But I don't see any function for that.

Do I miss something, is there any workaround ?

Or should I contact BM for a feature request ?

Thx!

The only way I found is via AppleScript or some other way (external Python libraries) of accessing the menu item "Razor".

Thx for the hints,

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 (external Python libraries) of accessing the menu item "Razor".

Is this possible via scripting api ? There is no tool access as far as I know

Thx for the hints,

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 (external Python libraries) of accessing the menu item "Razor".

Is this possible via scripting api ? There is no tool access as far as I know

Not with the official Resolve API.
As mentioned, you can try some hacks like sending a keyboard input or a mouse click with an external script.


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it's pretty straightforward using pyautogui:

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with pyautogui.hold('ctrl'):
    pyautogui.press('b')

Yeah
You do need to mind the user keyboard customization though.
Hopefully we will get some nice releases of “set” type functions in the coming upgrades. Some important stuff is still inaccessible.

I think it is a reasonable feature request then

a function like

split(item, position)

would allow so much editing possibilities.

it's pretty straightforward using pyautogui:

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with pyautogui.hold('ctrl'):
    pyautogui.press('b')

but is there any way to plug that into a davinci resolve script ?

Yes, of course.

The thing to remember though any keyboard press emulation is done at a larger scope. The pyautogui emulated CTRL+B is not aware of Resolve in any way. It will apply this keyboard shortcut to whatever application is in focus. If MS Word is in focus this will enable bold style. If Resolve is in focus, and the edit page timeline is in focus, this will split the clips that happen to be under the playhead.

The complexity of this solution can quickly grow. There is a way to test if an app is in focus but these things are hacky and highly OS dependent. The BMD API can check if the Edit page is open and so forth. It's all possible to solve though.

@Igor
This indeed make things quite complex,
Especially consideraring there is no way to actually select certain clips as far as I know so the split actions can perform on more tracks than necessary.

We really need this in native API !

You can't select clips but you can lock tracks to avoid splitting clips you don't want to cut. Without knowing the details of your use case this still sounds possible, although it would require some work.

@Igor Riđanović
My end goal would be somethin like : split selected clips at green markers positions.

This would be fairmy easy to code and manage with a split clip function API as there is function to get marker and its properties.

I contacted support for exposing my feature request. Scripting API with editing feature will be more useful.

We in fact need a dedicate split clip API function, cause the razor tool is too broad and require deactivate/activated track for edition, and this can't be done via script.

Some we need something like

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[b]item:Split( frame_pos )[/b]


This would help so much!