It would also be nice to have some key you could press, and then when you clicked on an event, it would highlight all events that are grouped with that event.

All of the above gets my vote. I'd prefer it if the A/V pairs had their own locking / unlocking mechanism that was different to the grouping.

Bob.

Multi-level grouping would be my dream.

Right. The ability to have more than one group would be great; as of course, would be a way to tell which group an event belonged to.

TB

> "Add to Group" would be nice (and dead simple).

For your editing pleasure: (this will add any selected event and all of the events in their respective groups to a new group that contains all of the events)

//**************************************************************

//*      Program: AddToGroup.cs

//*       Author: John Rofrano

//*  Description: Adds events to a group maintaining the original grouping

//* Last Updated: October 26, 2008

//*    Copyright: (c) 2008 VASST, All Rights Reserved

//**************************************************************

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using Sony.Vegas;



class EntryPoint

{

    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)

    {

        try

        {

            // get the selected events

            ArrayList selectedEvents = FindSelectedEvents(vegas.Project.Tracks);



            // if we found more than one selected event, process them

            if (selectedEvents.Count > 1)

            {

                TrackEventGroup group = new TrackEventGroup();

                vegas.Project.Groups.Add(group);



                foreach (TrackEvent trackEvent in selectedEvents)

                {

                    if (trackEvent.IsGrouped)

                    {

                        ArrayList oldGroup = new ArrayList(trackEvent.Group);

                        foreach (TrackEvent groupedEvent in oldGroup)

                        {

                            groupedEvent.Group.Remove(groupedEvent);

                            group.Add(groupedEvent);

                        }

                    }

                    else

                    {

                        group.Add(trackEvent);

                    }

                }

            }

        }

        catch (Exception e)

        {

            MessageBox.Show(e.Message, "VASST Add To Group", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);

        }

    }



    /// <summary>

    /// Finds events that are selected in the track collection

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name="trackList">A list of tracks to serahc for selected events</param>

    /// <returns>an ArrayList of selected events. If no events found the collection will be empty</returns>

    private ArrayList FindSelectedEvents(Tracks trackList)

    {

        ArrayList selectedEvents = new ArrayList();



        foreach (Track track in trackList)

        {

            foreach (TrackEvent trackEvent in track.Events)

            {

                if (trackEvent.Selected)

                {

                    selectedEvents.Add(trackEvent);

                }

            }

        }



        return selectedEvents;

    }

}

~jr

> It would also be nice to have some key you could press, and then when you clicked on an event, it would highlight all events that are grouped with that event.

This code will select all of the events in a group just by selecting one of them. (note: you can select multiple events and it will select all of the events in all of the groups)

//**************************************************************

//*      Program: HighlightGroupedEvents.cs

//*       Author: John Rofrano

//*  Description: Selects all events that are in the same group

//* Last Updated: October 26, 2008

//*    Copyright: (c) 2008 VASST, All Rights Reserved

//**************************************************************

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using Sony.Vegas;



class EntryPoint

{

    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)

    {

        try

        {

            // get the selected events

            ArrayList selectedEvents = FindSelectedEvents(vegas.Project.Tracks);



            // if we found at least one selected event, process them

            if (selectedEvents.Count > 0)

            {

                foreach (TrackEvent trackEvent in selectedEvents)

                {

                    if (trackEvent.IsGrouped)

                    {

                        foreach (TrackEvent groupedEvent in trackEvent.Group)

                        {

                            groupedEvent.Selected = true;

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

        }

        catch (Exception e)

        {

            MessageBox.Show(e.Message, "VASST Highlight Grouped Events", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);

        }

    }



    /// <summary>

    /// Finds events that are selected in the track collection

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name="trackList">A list of tracks to serahc for selected events</param>

    /// <returns>an ArrayList of selected events. If no events found the collection will be empty</returns>

    private ArrayList FindSelectedEvents(Tracks trackList)

    {

        ArrayList selectedEvents = new ArrayList();



        foreach (Track track in trackList)

        {

            foreach (TrackEvent trackEvent in track.Events)

            {

                if (trackEvent.Selected)

                {

                    selectedEvents.Add(trackEvent);

                }

            }

        }



        return selectedEvents;

    }

}

~jr

Whoa...strong work JR. I can follow the code alright, but now just need to get smart enough to figure out what to do with it. Sweet though.

JR for President!

TB

Thanks Johnny!

BTW, when I click an event being member of a group, all other members of this group are framed by a light-blue box; isn't your second script sort of reduntant to this Vegas behaviour?

Very nice, JR. Thanks!!

I'm stunned...Thank you very much !

I also need a little help as to what to do with this code...is it a script?

thanks
kairosmatt

Yes, it's a script. Copy it from the post, paste it into Notepad, and then save with the extension ".js" instead of ".txt". Then, either put this file into the Vegas scripts folder or else navigate to it from the Vegas Scripts menu option and execute it from there.

Thanks John!

Once again, these two scripts, along with hundreds of others, demonstrate why Vegas is perhaps the most powerful NLE available. It's certainly the most configurable.

OK I renamed the scripts with a .js extension, but then saw JRs .cs extension, and used that instead. But for some reason, I cannot get Windows to recognize then as anything other than text files. I'm not sure if this is an issue or not, but I never see them as possible scripts like the other .cs files--they don't even appear in the same folder.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks.

TB

When you save a file from Notepad, it automatically adds ".TXT" as the extension. In order to save them with a specific filename and extension from Notepad, you must enclose the entire filename in quotes.

Exactly, lol...just figured that out now. Gotta love Windows...

BTW--they work now.

Thanks.

TB

> BTW, when I click an event being member of a group, all other members of this group are framed by a light-blue box; isn't your second script sort of reduntant to this Vegas behaviour?

No, because they are still not selected. If you wanted to run another script that worked on selected events and you just selected one event from a group you would only affect that one event. If you run HighlightGroupedEvents first, then the next script would affect all of the events in the group. So it's more than just a visual queue, it's actually selecting the events as if you performed a Ctrl+click.

~jr

> Exactly, lol...just figured that out now. Gotta love Windows...

Yea, I try and put the script name in the comments so that you know if it's a .cs (C#) or ,js (JavaScript). You still have to look out for notepad adding the .txt on you though (you gotta love tools that think they are smarter than you). I usually don't write any JavaScript anymore because I have a script project set up in Visual Studio that allows me to write these quickly in C#.

I'm glad you got it working and that you find them useful. As John Meyer said, this is where the real power of Vegas comes shining through. End-users can add new functionality and not have to wait for the next release. It's very empowering for an editor.

~jr