Is the Trimmer scriptable yet?

BrianStanding wrote on 3/11/2010, 4:20 AM
Has Sony opened up the Trimmer to scripting in VP9? I know this has been a long-standing request. I'm trying to find a way to automate transferring regions from a timeline into regions in the media file.

I often have assistants/interns (who typically don't have Vegas) do logging using DVDs with a timecode burn. They then enter in the starting and ending timecode and labels into an Excel spreadsheet, which I then can cut and paste into the timeline using Edit Details. Works great!

However, the next step of setting media regions involves a tedious process of:
1. Select timeline region
2. Rename region
3. Ctrl-c to copy the region name
4. Hit enter
5. Select event, right mouse click and hit Ctrl-alt-T to open in the Trimmer
6. Hit "R" in trimmer to set the region
7. Shift-insert to paste the region name and enter
8. Hit "C" (I've reprogrammed the keyboard shortcuts) to create a subclip and Enter

What I'd love is something that does the reverse or the "Promote Media Markers" script, so that you could take all the regions on a timeline and "demote" them to regions in the Trimmer. I also have UltimateS Pro 4, which has a nifty "Convert Imbedded Regions to Subclips" feature, which gets me part of the way there.

I tried writing a macro in RemoteKeys that would just enter in the appropriate keystrokes, but I couldn't figure out how to automate the mouse gestures needed to select regions and events on the timeline in the appropriate sequence.

Last time I asked about something like this, I was told it wasn't possible because the Trimmer wasn't available to scripting. Has anything changed in this regard?


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JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/14/2010, 7:34 PM
> What I'd love is something that does the reverse or the "Promote Media Markers" script, so that you could take all the regions on a timeline and "demote" them to regions in the Trimmer

The problem is not that that Trimmer is not scriptable. The problem is that you cannot save regions in the media. I tried writing the reverse of "Promote Media Markers" for Ultimate S Pro a while ago and as soon as you add a region to the media's Region collection it throws an exception. :( So it simply can't be done.

~jr
BrianStanding wrote on 3/15/2010, 3:25 PM
Thanks, Johnny. I was afraid of that. Do you think this is a bug, or a permanent design limitation?

Can you think of any way to do Steps 1, 2 & 5 on my list above, using keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse? If I could do that, I could at least record a keyboard macro I could run every time I wanted to copy a region into the Trimmer. I tried, but couldn't find a way to do it reliably.