batch rendering subclips.

Zoogie wrote on 6/13/2004, 3:59 PM

Is there a way to batch render sublips out into individual clips bearing the same name as the subclip.
Here is what I want to do. Create subclips of portions of the footage I want to use and then render them out to real clips. So they are available outside vegas, say for some After Effecting.

It would be nice if these would retain the names of the subclips.

Myxo

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/13/2004, 10:02 PM

In a batch, I don't know how you can do this...easy enough if it wasn't a batch. Would be best if you could just create a region, name it, and have that be the name of the rendered file. Maybe Johnny Roy or Ed Troxel could whip you up a script?

Zoogie wrote on 6/14/2004, 7:50 PM

Thanks Spot,
I assume something like this is scriptable then..
something like "look in media pool / current bin, render out every clip in this bin to this folder."
These are times I wish I knew javascript.
Would be nice if someone would do this if it aint too much trouble.

Thanks in advance.

jetdv wrote on 6/14/2004, 8:13 PM

Yes it is scriptable. In fact, there's enough scripts out there to already to this. Just locate the following scripts and follow the following routine:

1) Place all of the sub-clips back to back on the timeline
2) Run the script that will place markers at the beginning of each clip
3) Run the script that will convert the markers to regions
4) Run the script that will render regions.

p.s. I think most, if not all, of the scripts can be found on the sundance site.

Zoogie wrote on 6/14/2004, 8:50 PM

Thanks JetDV,
I will look for these scripts right away.

rrogan wrote on 2/15/2005, 9:29 AM

I tried the above but couldn't get it to work.
I ran all the scripts. How do you get the name of the subclips to be the name of the regions and eventually the file name of the rendered regions

jetdv wrote on 2/15/2005, 9:57 AM

You would need to change the line in the script where the name of the output file is generated. (You would also have to add enough code to get the name of the sub-clip as well)

Technically, the rendering program isn't looking at the clips themselves. Instead, it's only looking at the regions so... the regions really need to be named properly. The file name really needs to come from the region name.

However, the regions are being created from markers so the region script really needs to be modified to get the name of the marker.

Which then takes you back to the Marker script. The marker would then need to get it's name from the sub-clip.

So, as you can see, you'd probably need to modify EVERY script in the path for full functionality. OR, a specialized version could be written to meet your specific needs.

taliesin wrote on 2/15/2005, 10:01 AM

I'm not aware of a script which uses the subclip's name to be the Regions name. But from here on (beginning at the Regions) there is a way.

Veggie Toolkit available at

http://www.peachrock.com/software/veggie-toolkit.html

does exaclty this (and a whole lot more). It can render all the Regions of .veg-projects out to new files and if the Regions were named it can take the Regions name to the new file names. There are several choices for automated naming of rendered files. And I think this is a great feature.

I use this right now for editing a bigger documentary. I have lots of BetaSP tapes captured to 35 minutes AVIs. Next step now is to select Regions (instead of using Subclips) and name each Region.
Then I use the MultiRender tool which is part of this Veggie Toolkit to have the Regions rendered to single files containing the Regions name.

For Media Management in/from Vegas in several ways I think it's worth taking a closer look onto the Veggie Toolkit demo.

Marco

rcampbel wrote on 2/15/2005, 1:09 PM

The Veggie Toolkit also has a tool for cutting a long clip into smaller clips called Capture Cutter. The smaller clips can also be recaptured from tape in the future if needed.

Also, with both MultiRender and Capture Cutter, if you place the subclip events on the first track of the timeline, you can use the events as the selection to render without having to mark the regions. In MultiRender, the selections drop down will show all of the events that are on the first track. You can select one or more of these to render. The output files will be named with the event name (which will include the subclip number).

Randall