Maybe I misunderstood, but isn't Tools>Multicamera>Layout tracks by media timecode command does what you want?

This should work - not sure about using TOD, though.

And, of course the method I mentioned above could only guarantee the clips' sequence and order - so if there are any gaps between them, it's not enough for what Bob needs...

Piotr

Have the Clips in Order in ProjMedia

Select all in PM and then Right Drag selection to T/L - Release and use "Add Across Time".

Works for me.

Grazie

"Maybe I misunderstood, but isn't Tools>Multicamera>Layout tracks by media timecode command does what you want?"

Very close, the clips do end up at the correct timecode.
Problem is each clips is now on its own track, 270 of them to be exact!

"Select all in PM and then Right Drag selection to T/L - Release and use "Add Across Time"."

That seems to only add the clips ignoring the timecode, no different to Left Drag to T/L. I would have thought it would work, strange.
I've never been able to ge those Right Drag option to work, Add as Take in particular is a bust.

Bob.

Hi Bob,

Please, try this one (.cs script) :

/*

 * Add clips at ruler timecode

 * November 12 2010 / Gilles Pialat

 * 

 */



using System;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using Sony.Vegas;



public class EntryPoint

{

    Vegas myVegas;

    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)

    {

        myVegas = vegas;

        Media[] selectedMedia = myVegas.Project.MediaPool.GetSelectedMedia();



        if (selectedMedia.Length == 0)

            MessageBox.Show("Please select media in mediapool before to run this script");

        else

        {

            myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(new VideoTrack(0));

            myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(new AudioTrack(1));

            foreach (Media media in selectedMedia)

            {

                VideoEvent videoEvnt;

                AudioEvent audioEvnt;

                TrackEventGroup group = new TrackEventGroup();

                myVegas.Project.Groups.Add(group);



                foreach (MediaStream mediaStream in media.Streams)

                {

                    if (mediaStream.MediaType == MediaType.Video)

                    {

                        videoEvnt = new VideoEvent(media.TimecodeIn, media.Length);

                        Take activeTake = new Take(mediaStream, true);

                        myVegas.Project.Tracks[0].Events.Add(videoEvnt);

                        videoEvnt.Takes.Add(activeTake);

                        group.Add(videoEvnt);

                    }

                    if (mediaStream.MediaType == MediaType.Audio)

                    {

                        audioEvnt = new AudioEvent(media.TimecodeIn, media.Length);

                        Take activeTake = new Take(mediaStream, true);

                        myVegas.Project.Tracks[1].Events.Add(audioEvnt);

                        audioEvnt.Takes.Add(activeTake);

                        group.Add(audioEvnt);

                    }

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

Thank you so much,
that is working perfectly apart from one very minor issue that I can live with.
If I use it to add a bunch of clips to the T/L a second time it appears to always create new track(s) rather than add them to the selected track(s). Certainly not a show stopper. I can simply move the events down to the required tracks and deleted the unwanted tracks.

Bob.

Rosebud,
a simply HUGE thank you for that script.
I now have 270 clips synced to 9 hours of audio. Doing this by hand was taking forever.

Bob.

I'm obviously not understanding anything about this at all. And that is a bust.

Where had you previously mentioned about synching to audio? Totally confused.

Grazie

Grazie, say you had a 9 hour project based on 9 hours of the day, say from noon to 9pm. The project is mostly the sound going on during that 9 hours, so you have 9 hours of audio on the timeline.

Now, suppose that at various times during that 9 hours you shoot some short video clips now and then. Not the full 9 hours, just little snippets.

Now suppose that you want to put those snippets on the timeline so that they line up against the 9 hour background audio at the time they were taken. You'll end up with the clips in sync with the times they were originally shot, but there may be lots of large gaps between them. For example, a clip shot at 4:25:17 pm will start at 4:25:17 on the timeline even if the previous clip ended at 4:02:36.

Now, i'm not saying that Bob mentioned audio to begin with, but it fits the scenario whether it was mentioned or not, and he did mention audio at the end.

Kelly, thanks for that. Really appreciate the explanation.

So, Bob wanted to place clips that were taken at various times of the day and have the gaps in videoing show as spaces. He wanted to do this, we now surmise, because he had another motive/reason for doing so: Bob already had an existing audio track that was to be his full-day reference.

Now, how was I to know that? You guys had picked up on some clue that evaded me. If I had realised that then my I wouldn't have proffered the solution I had. I was more
concered that Bob could populate his T/L with his clips in order and, naturally, without gaps. Who'd have thought huh? Well, now I know, and obviously you guys had, that that was exactly what he was after. I now see, the clue to the clue was this mention of "timecode". I still have much to learn.

What a great script Gilles!

Grazie

Bob,

I'm very glad to help you.
Delete those lines if you don't want to create new tracks each time you are running the script:
myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(new VideoTrack(0));
myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(new AudioTrack(1));

Nota: The first track should always to be a video track and the second an audio track.

"So, Bob wanted to place clips that were taken at various times of the day and have the gaps in videoing show as spaces. He wanted to do this, we now surmise, because he had another motive/reason for doing so: Bob already had an existing audio track that was to be his full-day reference. "

YES !

Actually the audio track is kind of irrelevant in the wider view of why one might wish to do this. One might have several cameramen wondering around just picking up interesting shots. Maybe some of them got different angles of the same thing. Also these kind of all day festivals have schedules, so having a timeline of the various bits and pieces of video that matches the plan for the day makes it easy to identify what was going on.

In my own case indeed I had an all day audio recording that I'm using as the master reference. The Edirol R-4 and R-44 can be setup to name files and folders using date and time the recording starts. Very handy. As the files are written to SDHC cards in FAT32 each file is only 2GB so every 2 hours or so I have a new file with date and time, just to be sure, to be sure, that everything is correct.

Now if someone can recommend a way to avoid heatstroke, I found one of those sun shades you put behind your car's windscreen to get the camera protected but only had a narrow brimmed hat for myself. That and a general lack of fluids.....

Bob.

"Problem is each clips is now on its own track, 270 of them to be exact!"

If all the clips have the same tape name, they will be placed on the same track

One man's irrelervance, is another man's clarity. Ah, if only everybody thought like I - NOT!

Grazie