Edit details + word = good friends

Nat wrote on 4/24/2004, 12:25 PM

I am analyzing a movie and to do so I decided to use markers with descriptions in Vegas. I use the edit details under marker which gives me a list of all my cues with the exact time.

Now the nice thing is, I can select all of this and copy/paste to notepad.

Now the really nice thing, I can create a table in word, select this table and paste the content into it, it will be all formatted correctly. I thought I'd be in for hours of copy/paste from vegas to word for each cue, only one click and it's done !

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Grazie wrote on 4/24/2004, 12:26 PM

Try this in Excel too! - G

Nat wrote on 4/24/2004, 12:36 PM

Please don't tell me this also works in Excel

Wow ! Organizing stuff just became much much more easier.

I also found out that you can copy a table in word (I guess it'll work in excel now that you say it) and copy it to Vegas in the marker section of edit details, all the markers will appear in vegas with their description !

Nat wrote on 4/24/2004, 12:40 PM

Hmm thinking about some nasty ways of using this :

Let's say a client wants me to shoot an event. I end up with one tape.

I can give the client the tape and an excel file, he can then fill up that file with info about the regions he wants. I then load this excel file in the edit details, all the regions are created, I then use a script to convert regions to subclips and voilà !

Cheesehole wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:01 PM

I have not been able to get regions to form using that method before... I wonder did they update it for Vegas 5?

It is really cool what you can do back and forth with Excel. I use it for transcript, table of contents generation, etc... And if I need to get a transcript approved - I can just send the client an XLS and let them edit away. Then I can dump the new one back onto the timeline.

It works real well with markers, but it's very inconsistent what you can do. Unless they did a major update for Vegas 5. Scripting has replaced a lot of the back and forth I used to do with Excel.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:08 PM

This was there back in V4 as well. The trick that most people didn't know is that you must click on the intersection of the row and coloumn headers in order to select the entire table, and then do the copy operation.

Pasting back into Vegas is a bit more problematic. I can never get it to do the entire table.

Nat wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:13 PM

I seem to be able to copy regions from one copy of vegas to another but not from the notepad to vegas. Would be nice if it worked, especially for subtitles, I could export subtitles as a word file to be reviewed and import them back,

Nat wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:16 PM

john : That's strange, I just copied a word file containing 130 markers back to vegas with no problems.

Nat wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:26 PM

I just checked and exporting/importing command markers with the copy paste method works very well. There's only with regions that importing doesn't work (it will paste markers instead)

is this a bug ? This feature could be very useful for subtitles.

Cheesehole wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:40 PM

>is this a bug ? This feature could be very useful for subtitles.

Good point... I've brought this exact topic up before but now that Vegas has sub titles listed as a feature - it seems a no brainer to make them importable. Seems the development work is mostly done since this technique already works so well with markers.

Besides subtitles:
My friend made a tape from the timeline with time code. Client reviews tape, sends back a list of I/O points in Excel. It would be nice if he could import that list as regions.