Execute Burn CD function from script

jvanhoose wrote on 1/28/2009, 11:49 AM
Is there a way (outside of ugly hacks) to burn a red-book CD from a Vegas script (C#)? I have built a "network-aware" batch-render system that can submit jobs, monitor their success (or failure) with almost any scenario. This script has already improved productivity by making it simple to easily burn a single project (and/or portions of the same project) to different render types in different places - all without tying up the primary interface. The one aspect of this that I can't (yet) do is the burning of a CD.

Today, I burn the project to CD-RW from Vegas, and then use Alcohol to "extract it" into an image file (for later burning to physical media).

It would be super great if someone knows the secret to this. If not, I am open to suggestions as to how this might be accomplished from a script.

Jeff :-)

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/28/2009, 6:11 PM
> Is there a way (outside of ugly hacks) to burn a red-book CD from a Vegas script (C#)?

Define "ugly hack". Burning CD's is not supported by the Script API. You can layout the media and add the CD track markers and everything on the timeline using the script API and then use the windows send key commands to invoke the Vegas CD burn menu. Not sure if that qualifies for "ugly hack" but it just might work.

~jr
jvanhoose wrote on 1/29/2009, 12:16 PM
Yep - that was the ugly hack that I was afraid was going to be required.

Oh well, an ugly hacking we go.

Jeff :-)