How to Quantize 2,698 Unquantized events at once...?

Blurmo wrote on 3/3/2025, 10:20 PM

You've unfortunately read that question correctly. Below is a screenshot of my current timeline on Vegas Pro 21 (Purchased).

I haven't had the best of luck during this project, from 3 frame offset slips to now this, the list of problems never ceases to stop. If you're curious how this happened, so am I. If you're curious how I didn't catch it sooner, fingers may point to the strenuous troubleshooting process for that misalignment issue, solved via slipping (ALT + DRAG 3 Frames).

I know many may not see this as an issue, but it is to me; Especially when I'm in the process of adding on overlays, images, etc, while trying to align them with 2.7k unquantized, fully VFX'd events.

What would basically happen to this project if I were to continue as usual, would be images/overlays appearing ~1 frame BEFORE a cut. Trust me when I say, it's not a pleasant viewing experience at all. I can barely watch a few minutes, much less 35 of them.

I've tried my hand at scripting, and while this may have somewhat fixed those unquantized frames, it then left a multitude of empty gaps within the timeline itself (black-flashes on a baked render, also not a pleasant viewing experience). I'm not a coder, so I'm outclassed in that regard.

Please, for the love of everything good and holy, someone tell me there's a way to realign every single event without manually going through 2,700 events and readjusting both borders onto the grid.

(P.S - As much as baking this section and THEN going through with images/overlays may seem an obvious solution, I'd love to stray away from re-rendering this selection as it's already a pre-rendered video itself, that came from a converted video. From original recording to conversion to render to cut to VFX, to render ONCE MORE, to yet another render after the fact, just isn't in my cards today. Thank you for understanding)

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bvideo wrote on 3/3/2025, 11:28 PM

If you're done with unquantized clip realignment, you can close the gaps:

1. select the track with the gaps

2. to close all gaps select all or none of the events

3. (menu) edit -> close gaps

Otherwise, wait a bit and more users will come along with tips & scripts for quantizing, if that isn't settled.

Dexcon wrote on 3/3/2025, 11:31 PM

Eeek!

One method which may partially help is to activate Auto Ripple, zoom in a lot on the timeline, and shift the first event of a group so that the LH event edge meets a frame line thus removing the red highlight. If all the misaligned edges were due to auto rippling in the first place, then you may be lucky and a group of events may also correct themselves with the correction of the first event with auto ripple activated. Depending on how the misalignments occurred, you may have to use Austo Ripple in either of 'All tracks ..." or 'Affected tracks'.

Vegasaur identifies unquantised events in its Auditor, but I'm sure that each unquantised event that it identifies needs to be highlighted in the auditor report and then a 'fix' button needs to be hit - it doesn't look like that can be done in bulk.

Hoping that an easier solution can be offered by others.

RogerS wrote on 3/4/2025, 2:14 AM

Vegasaur can quantize selected or all events in one click.

jetdv wrote on 3/4/2025, 7:36 AM

You would need to use a script to do them all at once. This shows how to fix one not ending on a frame boundary. If it doesn't "start" on a frame boundary, just change the start location to the frame boundary. You can check if it's on a frame boundary the same way this tutorial shows checking to see if the end is on a frame boundary. Then you might need to check for gaps in the timeline if they were not overlapping.

Blurmo wrote on 3/8/2025, 3:16 PM

Hello all, thank you for your advice.

I managed to figure out the issue by comparing a few dozen screenshots of some unquantized frame borders and measuring the pixels between them (I know.. not ideal...) I concluded that a majority of these events (Highlighted in blue) were correctly cut on that 'Quantized Frame' border as intended. Somehow between point A and B, and somehow before most of those events, I hotkey'd ALT + F8, toggling the 'Quantize to frames' setting, unknowingly.

After editing that tiny red highlight (seen in the new screenshot below) on unquantized frames, I misplaced the remainder of the footage that followed afterwards. All is well, and all has been fixed.

Thank you guys again for the advice! I wouldn't wish this near-miss disaster on my worst of enemies...

wwaag wrote on 3/9/2025, 11:41 AM

There's also a script in the HOS Free Tools Library that will do this.

Here's the direct link. https://tools4vegas.com/quantize-to-frames/