I record gameplay, while playing I press my assigned key to mark the timestamp (it's a very low impact plugin for OBS) in a .txt file.

This means that I have a text file that is a list of timestamps that I can then go to in Vegas, cut out and then edit together.

When I press stop recording, only then do I put it in Vegas, I don't really have the option of only recording the bits where things happen because sometimes we'll be referencing to when something happened that I didn't timestamp.

I find it timeconsuming to go through all the timestamps to clip them, so I'm going to try to write or find someone who would be able to write a script (I have no experience so this would be the best option for me but I'm aware that it's unlikely). This script would, when the clip is selected, get the date from the clip in vegas, find that date and timestamps in the timestamp.txt file, and clip them. I would then have all those clips together and I wouldn't have to go through and cut those clips up myself. It would just automate the process and do it much faster than I could.

So to sum up, what I do currently is record using OBS, while marking timestamps in a txt file, and then when I've stopped recording I put the files into Vegas and then manually clip from each timestamp, which takes some time, but saves me more time than watching the entire recording back. A script would save me even more time.

If someone could help me write a script for this, I would be immensely grateful.