No, not exactly. I have a video clip. then three image files of a specific length, then three shorter images, then another video clip and so on. Vegas doesn't seem to have a way to even set the width precisely unless you pre-set the width before adding it to the project. Anyway, there are two different sizes.

I figured I could get the right dimensions, then paste the widths onto the rest of the images. I had assumed Paste Attributes would do that. At this point, I have about 75 images and I'm going to be adding more. The only way I've found to match the width is to zoom into the timeline until you get each frame in view, and drag the image to match the number of frames.

If you need a bunch of images to be an exact number of frames long and they all need to be the same length, that can easily be done using a script. I'm sure Vegasaur has that ability. I know Excalibur does (it's the one I wrote).

Or you can write your own script for that by following the tutorials on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbRCTmKY_LO-8kJwX-knW3Q/

Basically, something like this which would change all selected images to 15 frames, for example:

            foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
            {
                if (myTrack.IsVideo())
                {
                    foreach (TrackEvent evnt in myTrack.Events)
                    {
                        if (evnt.Selected)
                        {
                            evnt.Length = Timecode.FromFrames(15);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

I've gone through the Vegasaur utilities and haven't found it yet. There's a command that sounds like it does, but doesn't seem to do what I want.

I've never written a script, but I'll visit your site.

This would be the full script with everything needed to actually run. Just save it as "Set Length.cs" in [My Documents]\Vegas Script Menu and then you will be able to run it by going to Tools - Scripting - Set Length
 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Drawing;
using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

namespace Test_Script
{
    public class Class1
    {
        public Vegas myVegas;

        public void Main(Vegas vegas)
        {
            myVegas = vegas;
            
            foreach (Track myTrack in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
            {
                if (myTrack.IsVideo())
                {
                    foreach (TrackEvent evnt in myTrack.Events)
                    {
                        if (evnt.Selected)
                        {
                            evnt.Length = Timecode.FromFrames(15);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Test_Script.Class1 test = new Test_Script.Class1();
        test.Main(vegas);
    }
}

Change this line for different lengths:

evnt.Length = Timecode.FromFrames(15);

Depending on how different the image sizes of the video events are and assuming that are not all that different, an approach could be to put all the different image sized video events onto their own individual tracks and use Video Motion in the track header of each track to size the media on that track to adjust to how you want it to be.

jetdv

So I select in Vegas all the images I want to be a specific length, then run the script to act upon only thos images? Have I got that right?

jetdv

So I select in Vegas all the images I want to be a specific length, then run the script to act upon only thos images? Have I got that right?

yes

Well, the script kept crashing Vegas, but that's ok because I found the command in Vegasaur that let's me do it after all. I appreciate the help mightily. It seems every time I ask for help from this forum I'm never disappointed.

@hurricane1951 That? Link

Something like that, but it's in the Vegasaur toolkit.

@hurricane1951, I whipped that out before going to church this morning and did not actually test it. What error message were you getting?

I just tested it and it worked fine. I just copied the above and pasted it into a .cs file and run the .cs file. No issues at all in shortening the selected event.

@hurricane1951 curious as to what command you are using in Vegasaur.

Timeline | Still Images Panel. Just select the images, set the length (in time) and apply.

With Vegasaur, I use Beat Detector to put markers on the timeline and adjust accordingly. I don't know of any plugin that will trim/extend image/clips to fit to the beats since music does change tempo. I'd get the the length settings as close as possible, then adjust.

That's not an issue here. It's just a few still images between video clips, about 5 seconds worth. It doesn't go on long enough to get out of sync.

Sorry, I don't quite follow you on this. You can stretch an image to any length that you want.

No problem.

I insert a video clip in the timeline, about 1 minute in length. It has a dialog track with it, plus a music track that runs the entire length of the project. At the end of the first clip. I insert 3 still images, about 1 sec each, to correspond to cymbal crashes in the audio (quarter notes), immediately followed by three more stills about .11 sec each (eighth notes). Then I repeat the process, with a different video clip and different still images. So, video clip + 3 stills + 3 stills, then video clip + 3 stills + 3 stills, etc.

I do videos like you describe, but have always done it manually. I set the image length in Preferences>Editing tab as close to the length that I want. Sometimes, I still have to make a slight adjustment on the length to keep things on the "beat".