Yes, a script can add a track anywhere.

Here's basically what you'd need to do:

            foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
            {
                if (myTrack.Selected)
                {
                    VideoTrack newTrack = new VideoTrack(myTrack.Index, "Optional Name");
                    myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                    break;
                }
            }

@jetdv and audio track? please

So you want video + audio above the current selected track?

            foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
            {
                if (myTrack.Selected)
                {
                    int thisIndex = myTrack.Index;
                    VideoTrack newTrack = new VideoTrack(thisIndex, "Optional Video Track Name");
                    myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                    AudioTrack newATrack = new AudioTrack(thisIndex + 1, "Optional Audio Track Name");
                    myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newATrack);
                    break;
                }
            }

Yes, a script can add a track anywhere.

Here's basically what you'd need to do:

            foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
            {
                if (myTrack.Selected)
                {
                    VideoTrack newTrack = new VideoTrack(myTrack.Index, "Optional Name");
                    myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                    break;
                }
            }

 

@jetdv It doesn't work.

So you want video + audio above the current selected track?

@jetdv
I want one for the video track and one for the audio track, to replace the native Vegas commands.The video always creating above the selected track and the audio creating below the selected track.

That's just the "guts" of the script, not the entire script. To scale it down and make it "runable":

Video Track above first selected track:

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Vegas myVegas = vegas;

        foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
        {
            if (myTrack.Selected)
            {
                VideoTrack newTrack = new VideoTrack(myTrack.Index);
                myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}

Audio Track after first selected track:

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Vegas myVegas = vegas;

        foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
        {
            if (myTrack.Selected)
            {
                AudioTrack newTrack = new AudioTrack(myTrack.Index + 1);
                myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}

@jetdv 
Worked perfectly. But when I defined a shortcut for the script, I noticed that the execution time is unfortunately slower than Vegas' native create new track function.
Can you do one more thing? I realized that when there is no trail it is not possible to create a new trail. Is there a way to make it also create a track even without selecting any tracks? (I understand that with more lines of code the script will take even longer to run.)

If no selected track, will add a video track at the top or an audio track at the bottom.

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Vegas myVegas = vegas;
        bool added = false;

        foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
        {
            if (myTrack.Selected)
            {
                VideoTrack newTrack = new VideoTrack(myTrack.Index);
                myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                added = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (!added)
        {
            VideoTrack newTrack = new VideoTrack(0);
            myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
        }
    }
}

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Vegas myVegas = vegas;
        bool added = false;

        foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
        {
            if (myTrack.Selected)
            {
                AudioTrack newTrack = new AudioTrack(myTrack.Index + 1);
                myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
                added = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (!added)
        {
            AudioTrack newTrack = new AudioTrack(myVegas.Project.Tracks.Count);
            myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newTrack);
        }
    }
}

@jetdv Thank you very much! Worked perfectly.

@VEGASDerek Although our friend jetdv managed to create something that solves the problem, this remains an issue that should be resolved in official updates.

This is how VEGAS has worked since the beginning of time. It is unlikely we will change this default behavior. However, we could consider some alternate new track options.

@VEGASDerek But shouldn't the shortcut's behavior be the same as right-clicking and selecting the option? Since the shortcut is a quick way to do the same function?​​​​​​​

It is quite simple the reason behind it...the right click option places the new track at the point where the right click occurred in the timeline. The keyboard shortcut will place a video track at the top of the timeline or and audio track at the bottom since it has not relevance to the mouse cursor. You're assumption that this is based on a selected track is incorrect...it is based on the location of the mouse click.

@VEGASDerek

The current audio track's right-click menu lacks "Create New Video Track",

video track's right-click menu lacks "Create New Audio Track".

Many users would like this to be improved to bring greater flexibility and freedom for Vegas.

@lan-mLMC I agree.​​​​​​​
Ps. With this script above you can do that.​​​​​​​

@jetdv Good evening, Edward! I would like to update these scripts, in fact it would be like a new version, this current version still makes sense, but this new version I thought would be very useful for my workflow.

The idea is as follows: When a video track is selected, when executing the script, it will create a new video track above the selected video track, however, if an audio track is selected, it will create a new track of audio below it. If an audio and video track were selected at the same time, it would create a new video track above the selected one and a new audio track below the selected one. If no track was selected, as in a new empty Vegas project, when running the script it would create two tracks, a video track on top and an audio track below it. Always in this pattern.

Here's what I did:

If a video track is selected, a new video track is added above the first selected video track.

if an audio track is selected, a new audio track is added below the first selected video track.

If nothing is selected, a new video track is added at the top and a new audio track is added at the bottom.

So... the four cases are:

1. Only Video Track selected - add a new video track above that first selected video track
2. Only Audio Track selected - add a new audio track below that first selected audio track
3. Both video and audio track selected - add a new video track above that first selected video track and add a new audio track below that first selected audio track
4. Neither video or audio track selected - add a new video track at the top of the project and add a new audio track at the bottom of the project.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Runtime;
using System.Xml;
using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

namespace Test_Script
{
    public class Class1
    {
        public Vegas myVegas;

        public void Main(Vegas vegas)
        {
            myVegas = vegas;

            bool FoundVideo = false;
            bool FoundAudio = false;

            foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
            {
                if (myTrack.Selected && myTrack.IsVideo() && !FoundVideo)
                {
                    FoundVideo = true;
                    VideoTrack newVTrack = new VideoTrack(myTrack.Index);
                    myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newVTrack);
                }
                if (myTrack.Selected && myTrack.IsAudio() && !FoundAudio)
                {
                    FoundAudio = true;
                    AudioTrack newATrack = new AudioTrack(myTrack.Index + 1);
                    myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newATrack);
                }
                if (FoundAudio && FoundVideo)
                {
                    break;
                }
            }

            if (!FoundAudio && !FoundVideo)
            {
                VideoTrack newVTrack = new VideoTrack(0);
                myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newVTrack);

                AudioTrack newATrack = new AudioTrack(myVegas.Project.Tracks.Count);
                myVegas.Project.Tracks.Add(newATrack);
            }

        }
    }
}

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Test_Script.Class1 test = new Test_Script.Class1();
        test.Main(vegas);
    }
}

Perfect as always. Thank you very much!

@jetdv curious -- in that last code snippet, why'd you include so many dependencies (using...) at the top? Forms... IO... drawing?

@RedRob-CandlelightProdctns, those are all just part of the template I start with. Do I need them all? Typically no, but they're nice to have there if I do need them and I don't have to worry about adding them. Do I need any of them in this case? No.

Deleted my comment. It was in error.

@jetdv Hi, I'm very very new to scripts.. so stupid question.. Do you have tutorial that shows how to rename an existing script.. or is this an easy to answer question?

I the script above I saved it as 'Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks', it works perfectly but if I change that & the cs file name it doesn't work?

Thanks.