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lnetzel wrote on 7/19/2003, 7:47 AM
I just checked out the Object Tree in the Scripting Host DLL and there's nothing in there that looks like anything close to capture. I'd say it's probably not supported!

/Lars
SonyPJM wrote on 7/21/2003, 2:00 PM
VidCap and audio capture in Vegas are not currently scriptable. However, VidCap can be "scripted" via command-line arguments... if that will work for you, I can post full details.
jetdv wrote on 7/21/2003, 2:37 PM
Sounds interesting. I'd like to see it.
SonyPJM wrote on 7/21/2003, 4:26 PM
Here's a summary of some of the VidCap command-line arguments



Argument,                Purpose



CAPTUREPATH,        arg is path to capture to

PRINT,              arg is file to print to tape

CAPTURE,            arg is file to recapture

CAPTURETAPENAME,    arg is tapename for recaptured file

CAPTURESTART,       arg is starting timecode

CAPTURELENGTH,      arg is length of DV clip


For example, the following command line captures a 2 second clip at the beginning of the tape:

vidcap40.exe -CAPTUREPATH:"D:\video" -CAPTURE:"clip2.avi" -CAPTURETAPENAME:"Tape 1" -CAPTURESTART:0 -CAPTURELENGTH:20000000

There are still some dialogs you'll need to manually dismiss.
jetdv wrote on 7/21/2003, 9:22 PM
20,000,000 is 2 seconds???? What scale is this working on?
SonyPJM wrote on 7/22/2003, 9:02 AM
In this case, it uses units of 100 nanoseconds. This is actually the underlying representation of almost all time measurements in Vegas. I'm giving thought to exposing these 100 nanosecond units in the Timecode class but for now you can convert from timecode strings using the Timecode class and it's ToMilliseconds() method:



var nanos : Int64 = Int64((new Timecode("00:00:02;00")).ToMilliseconds() * 10000);