Hi all,
It's already about a month ago that I started writing 2 scripts sortEvents and proxyEvents. They became quite large and difficult to explain, so put them together with some explanations (sorry, my mother tongue is not English, so please be forgiving :-) on my webspace under http://www.triton.ch/dust/vegas/
Shortly, proxyEvents allows to replace several selected events by a single "proxy" event, which is a bit like grouping: the selected events are altogether moved onto new tracks that serve as "intermediate storages". In the original track a single text event is added. This "proxy event" is linked to the proxy tracks, can be moved around as a single event, and at any time "expanded" again. It is a bit like grouping events with the difference that proxied events are automatically "moved together". Moreover, proxying events can be nested (like nested groups).
sortEvents allows quite efficient workflow procedures in cases you need to sort events into different groups. It is a bit like bins in the mediapool, just that "bins" are "pool tracks" that you can automatically fill with selected events from a source track. It is useful to remove commercials out of a movie, or to sort events of a movie into different contexts (like sorting talkshows after the different speakers etc).
Both scripts use a self-written library (klaymen.dll) that tries to find matching audio events to video events and vice versa. Unfortunately Sony still doesn't provide us access to Vegas' internal grouping structure, so it is no simple task to work around thsi serious (you hear me, Sony?) lack. All details to this library are explained on teh webpage as well.
Have fun,
dust (aka klaymen :-)
It's already about a month ago that I started writing 2 scripts sortEvents and proxyEvents. They became quite large and difficult to explain, so put them together with some explanations (sorry, my mother tongue is not English, so please be forgiving :-) on my webspace under http://www.triton.ch/dust/vegas/
Shortly, proxyEvents allows to replace several selected events by a single "proxy" event, which is a bit like grouping: the selected events are altogether moved onto new tracks that serve as "intermediate storages". In the original track a single text event is added. This "proxy event" is linked to the proxy tracks, can be moved around as a single event, and at any time "expanded" again. It is a bit like grouping events with the difference that proxied events are automatically "moved together". Moreover, proxying events can be nested (like nested groups).
sortEvents allows quite efficient workflow procedures in cases you need to sort events into different groups. It is a bit like bins in the mediapool, just that "bins" are "pool tracks" that you can automatically fill with selected events from a source track. It is useful to remove commercials out of a movie, or to sort events of a movie into different contexts (like sorting talkshows after the different speakers etc).
Both scripts use a self-written library (klaymen.dll) that tries to find matching audio events to video events and vice versa. Unfortunately Sony still doesn't provide us access to Vegas' internal grouping structure, so it is no simple task to work around thsi serious (you hear me, Sony?) lack. All details to this library are explained on teh webpage as well.
Have fun,
dust (aka klaymen :-)