Have I Included the Photo?

Chienworks wrote on 5/30/2007, 3:23 PM

This answer is for the full version of Vegas so i don't know if it works in the Studio version, but it wouldn't hurt to try it and see ...

Change the view of the Media Manager to Detailed. There will be a column titled "Use Count". If this has a number it it, it's how many times that item is on the timeline. If it's blank, you haven't used it yet.

Tim L wrote on 5/30/2007, 7:20 PM

Yes, Kelly, VMS 6 has this feature, just as you describe it.

GoldenPlates -- note that you can click on the column headings and sort on any column. You can click the Use Count column so that all of your "zero use" pictures are sorted to the top (you might have to click a second time to get the correct order).

Also, for any picture that IS already used, you can right-click and chose "Select Timeline Events". That will select it, on the timeline, wherever it is, but I don't know a way to make the cursor go to your selection so you can locate it. Maybe somebody else does.

Tim L

cmcdonald wrote on 5/31/2007, 11:26 AM

OK. Let me take this in a little different (but related) direction. Lets say I have a large number of photos that I want placed on the timeline but I want them in a random order. Is there a way to select all the photos but have them randomized for me either on the timeline or in the media folder?

Tim L wrote on 5/31/2007, 7:46 PM

Lets say I have a large number of photos that I want placed on the timeline but I want them in a random order. Is there a way to select all the photos but have them randomized

Well, not exactly, but you can maybe get a little bit of randomization by changing the Project Media view to "Detailed", then scroll over horizontally and sort on the "Size" column. If they are photos of similar size, they still will have some variation from one photo to the next, so this might somewhat randomize the order. Scroll back to the left and select the photos from top to bottom and add them to the timeline -- they will be added to the timeline in whatever order you see listed in the detailed view.

But -- and I'm just guessing here -- this might also result in sorting similar pictures in order. Since size is based on compression, which is affected by content, you might end up with photos that have a lot of plain sky in the background being at the front of the list, and photos with lots of detail (grass, gravel, etc.) ending up at the end of the list.

Tim L

cmcdonald wrote on 6/1/2007, 7:24 AM

Tim - Interesting idea. I had never thought about doing a sort based on the file size. I will have to try that and see how it does.

Chris

GoldenPlates wrote on 6/2/2007, 5:18 AM

Thank you, Tim L. I had never seen this function before.

However, as I have added photos to the timeline, it correctly shows Use Count of "1." However, when I have added video clips, the use count always shows up as "2."

Is it counting the video and audio separately, or is there an error?

GoldenPlates wrote on 6/2/2007, 5:20 AM

Thank you, Tim L. I had never seen this function before.

However, as I have added photos to the timeline, it correctly shows Use Count of "1." However, when I have added video clips, the use count always shows up as "2."

Is it counting the video and audio separately, or is there an error?

Chienworks wrote on 6/2/2007, 6:20 AM

You're quite correct ... audio and video events are counted separately.