Evidently I am not understanding your question. Cutting out unwanted footage from clips requires sitting down, watching the clip, placing In and Out points around the unwanted sections, and removing them.

It can't be automated. How can any script know what is wanted or unwanted?

Another way is to put the auto-ripple on, highlight the area to be cut, right click the area and hit delete. It removes the unwanted video and splices the remaining video together in the blink of an eye.

JJK

i watch, pause, hit "S", continue, pause, hit S again, delete clip...

In a sequence or in a single clip I identify A) those moments in time that are essential. That is, without that moment, the viewer would be uncertain about what is happening. (B) those moments that extend the essential moment with clarification of detail. and (C) those moments totally unimportant or redundant to defining the moment.

I get rid of everything that gets a C I keep only enough of B to clarify A and remove anything redundant unless it is a key element benefiting from being underscored. I keep A when I want to be straight forward or cut A and rely more on on B if I am trying to accomplish a sense of mystery.

Is this what you are speaking about?

All excellent different methods -
Once all unwanted info. is removed, can you resave the file under the same file name with same extension?

I hope 'A' makes it out alive....

Bit

JohnMeyer,

I have tried accessign this page with my account details for the VASST site - without luck - I am unable to download your script.

Can you help?

Bit

JJK,

I tried the auto-ripple thing.

Yes, it cuts where you want but you have to manually drag the remaining fottage back together. I thought you said this is done ina blink of an eye?

Bit

Evidently I am not understanding your question. Cutting out unwanted footage from clips requires sitting down, watching the clip, placing In and Out points around the unwanted sections, and removing them.

True enough, but the steps required to do the edit, the ease with which these steps can be performed, and the ability to do them without making a mistake is where the scripts can help. In particular, Vegas is very likely to cut the wrong material because of the interaction between tracks, events, and the selection area. Turn on ripple edit, which is supposed to help, and the interactions get even more involved and difficult to predict.

What the scripts to is limit the cuts to only those events under the cursor -- the cursor is used to determine what is cut, not the selections. Thus, you never get some other event cut that you forgot to un-select. The scripts are meant for simple edits on the first video track, and its associated audio (which is assumed to be on the track immediately below). Thus, they are not a panacea for every situation.

If the footage didn't ripple automatically, it means you turned auto-ripple off instead of on. So click on the icon again.

As for your other question about saving with the same extension - that's not really how it works. When you edit in Vegas, you're creating information that gets stored in a Vegas project file about what happens at various points in the timeline. This information is saved in a .VEG file.

If you want to save just the edited down video (and you don't need to do this) you would render the project out as an AVI file using the NTSC DV codec - this would result in a new file that contained just the edited material at which point you could delete the old file.

--Scott

I have tried accessign this page with my account details for the VASST site - without luck - I am unable to download your script.

Try this other site instead:

Scripts at Jetdv's site

You must have turned auto ripple off. Also remember there are three auto ripple selections.

JJK

JOhnMeyer,

Re:New Link - there are four scripts - which one is the script you are referring to...?

JJK - When the footage is cut, should the remaining pieces join together automatically?

Bit

JJK - WHich one of three choices should I select from the Auto ripple?

Still I make sure Auto Ripple is on but the footage still does not join together when I cut/delete selected unwanted part...

Bit

Bump

"WHich one of three choices should I select from the Auto ripple?" . . well I don't know what you want to do. Which of the 3 options best reflects what you want to do?

Sorry Grazie, Do not know anything about auto ripple..

Cab you take a guess maybe? The 3 options sort of tell you what "auto ripple" will affect.... when you select them.

For "Maximum" effect make sure autoripple is set to mode 3 (which basically says ripple everything). At least start there ... and if too much is moved around then switch to the other modes until it does what you want.

Also... simply selecting the modes that auto-ripple works in does not actually "activate" it... you have to click the autoripple icon to actually make it work.

With auto-ripple off... you can still do what is called a "post edit ripple". After you cut out your unwanted part of your clip hold down ctrl-shift-f and that will do a "maximum" ripple.

Additionally B of B... I would really recommend you get one of the many Vegas DVD courses... that sort of basic training will definitely accelerate your understanding and competancy with Vegas.

Much appreciated Liam

JOhnMeyer,

I have downloaded your cut/edit script files and tried to use them but error messages appear : "Failed to load the runtime. An error occurred during execution of the script."

Can you please help me successfully run this script?

Bit

You have to have Microsoft .NET installed to run scripts. You can download here:

Microsoft .NET

B of B, can I respectfully suggest you put in some time reading the manual, the thing is free and it does a pretty good job of explaining ripple editing and just how it works. Once you get a few more basics under your belt then I'd start using scripts.
Bob.

Thanks Farss - I will do that ..

JohnMeyer..I can now run these scrpits and reaslie some good potential in using these scripts...

However, the kyeboard tab options do not work for some reason. I have gone into prefernce and set all up as per your readme.txt file but no work when I play. It does work however, when I go into Tools/Scripts,etc...

How do I check if my kb options work properly?

Thanks

Bit