How to start recording and playback simultaneously?

[ChrisVDB]

I am developing a project that should enable a narrator to record a voice-over using PPro while monitoring the playback of the "active sequence".

This should greatly streamline the current daily workflow: Rendering a preview sequence containing a chain of all clips, play this while manually recording, add the voice file to the sequence of chanied clips, manually syncing the voice-over track with the sequence timeline, manually separating all the clips, rendering separate clips...

To have a good sync between the recording and the sequence where the voice-over must be added to, recording and playback must start at the same time, and preferably recording should end when the sequence playback ends.

Since it impossible for a human to press the record button and the play button in "Program" at the same time, (Space-bar does not work when the capture window has focus) I would like to automate this. I know PPro can start playback while a recording is running, so there should be no fundamental problem.

I already found a working command to start sequence playback: qe.startPlayback(); (yep it's qe, sorry for that, but this really should be in the regular API 😉 )

But nothing seems to exist for recording. 😞

Or is there some way to know when PPro starts recording, some kind of callback that could trigger the playback command when the record button is pushed?

grtz, Chris

[Trevor_Asq]

LMGTFY

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

But nothing seems to exist for recording. 😞

Correct.

...is there some way to know when PPro starts recording, some kind of callback that could trigger the playback command when the record button is pushed?

No.

[n.abola]

You can do it with autohotkey:

#If WinActive("ahk_exe Adobe Premiere Pro.exe ahk_class DroverLord - Window Class")

space::

SetKeyDelay, -1, -1

SetControlDelay -1

SendInput, {space}+4{space}

sleep 50

ControlFocus, DroverLord - Window Class3 , ahk_class DroverLord - Window Class