basic (?) script help

daves2 wrote on 8/1/2004, 10:46 PM

I am trying to create a script to add markers to a project based on timecodes which exist in a text file (each line of the text file is hh:mm:ss.ff0, ff0=frame).

Looked for an existing script to read the text file and create markers, but couldn't find one. I've never created a script, but thought I'd modify an existing one & give it a try.

I found the following (w/ deference to who ever created it - it's not labelled). Any suggestions for how I'd modify it to read from a text file and loop through the file creating markers for each entry in the file?

TIA for any help....

/**
* This script will add markers at the specified interval
**/

import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;

//Change this value to be the desired interval
//Format: hh:mm:ss:ff (hours:minutes:seconds:frames)
var Interval = "00:05:00:00";

try {
var myMarker : Marker;
var IncTime : Timecode = new Timecode(Interval);
var CurrTime : Timecode = IncTime;
var EndTime : Timecode = Vegas.Project.Length;

while (CurrTime < EndTime) {
//Put a marker at the interval point
myMarker = new Marker(CurrTime);
Vegas.Project.Markers.Add(myMarker);
CurrTime = CurrTime + IncTime;
}

} catch (e) {
MessageBox.Show(e);
}

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/2/2004, 8:32 PM

Instead pf just giving you the code to open and read a file, I though I would just write a script will do what you want and you could use that to expand on.

/** 

 * Program:     MarkersFromFile.js

 * Description: This script will read timecodes from a text file with one timecode

 *              on each line in the format hh:ss:ss.ff and create a marker

 *

 * Author: Johnny (Roy) Rofrano  john_rofrano (at) hotmail (dot) com

 * 

 * Date: Aug 2, 2004

 *

 **/

import System.IO;

import System.Windows.Forms;

import Sony.Vegas;

var file : StreamReader = null;

try

{

   var scriptPath : String = Path.GetDirectoryName(this.ScriptFile);

   var filename : String = scriptPath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + "markers.txt";

   file = File.OpenText(filename);

   var input : String = null;

   while ((input = file.ReadLine()) != null)

   {

      var marker : Marker = new Marker(new Timecode(input));

      Vegas.Project.Markers.Add(marker);

   }

}

catch (errorMsg)

{

   MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);

}

finally

{

   // make sure you don't leave the file open

   if (file != null)

   {

      file.Close();

   }

}

/*** END OF SCRIPT ***/

~jr