Is there a way to copy markers?

Randy Brown wrote on 8/26/2008, 8:45 AM

I'm working on a project that will have lots of montages. I'm doing the old place a marker on every measure and wondering if there is a way to copy the first few of them and paste so I don't have to do this on the whole song.
Thanks,
Randy

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jetdv wrote on 8/26/2008, 9:36 AM

may not be exactly what you have in mind but ought to work

1. Open Edit Details and view just the markers
2. Copy that marker information
3. Select all the markers on the timeline and move them to a new location after the previous markers
4. Paste the marker information back into Edit Details.

That should double your markers. Repeat as needed until done.

dcrandall wrote on 8/26/2008, 10:54 AM

I work on a lot of montages so I often need to place markers on measures. It's one of the many reasons I purchased the UltimateS plugin. It makes tedious tasks so much easier.

-Dan

Randy Brown wrote on 8/26/2008, 1:41 PM

Thanks Edward, I'll try that.

johnmeyer wrote on 8/26/2008, 2:11 PM

In the Edit Details view, displaying the marker information, if you click on the little blank area between the row and column headers, this will select everything. Then, press Ctrl-C to copy. You can then paste this into Excel and, if you know any spreadsheet stuff, can create markers pretty much at any interval you want.

When you are finished, select everything (in Excel) except the header row; select the entire Edit Details again, and then press Ctrl-V to paste the results of your work. The markers will immediately appear on your timeline.

You can also use this trick to spell check all the marker names prior to importing them into DVDA.

jredmond wrote on 8/26/2008, 4:03 PM

So is there a way to just copy the markers and load them into DVDA?

I sometimes forget to render with the markers and have been re-rendering.

Thanks, James

johnmeyer wrote on 8/26/2008, 4:38 PM

So is there a way to just copy the markers and load them into DVDA?Ouch, that's a lot of wasted time just to get the markers across. There is a Markers to DVD Architect script. I think it is still at VASST, although finding things on that site is next to impossible. Let me see ...

Ah, here it is:

DVDA chapter from Vegas marker

So, you run this, and it will create an SFL file. Make sure this has the same name as your MPEG video file. So, if you have a "My_film.mpg" video file, you will create a "My_film.mpg.sfl" file. Then, in DVDA, open the project, or if the project hasn't been started, drop the video into the project. If, for some reason, the markers don't appear, click on the "Load Markers" icon above the timeline, after first double-clicking on the video file in the project area.

Note: I have found that, for some reason, markers sometimes don't appear at the correct location on the timeline. I have not been able to determine why this happens, but I have a way to workaround the problem. Open the script in Notepad. Find this line, near the top of the script:

var NTSCFrameTime : double = 1471.47;			// 30000.0/1001.0 = 29.97....

Change the 1471.47 number to one of these numbers:

1472.9415
1271.47
1601.61836

I generally find that the last of these three works the best. It has to do with 48kHz audio instead of 44kHz audio. Why it affects the script, I don't know, but it will solve the problem if you end up having a problem.

rs170a wrote on 8/26/2008, 5:16 PM

John, thanks very much for the reminder about that script.
I was about to tell James (from the dpsVelocity list??) that it couldn't be done and you come up with this script :-)

Mike

JHendrix wrote on 1/1/2009, 4:26 PM

how to copy/paste markers between projects?

jetdv wrote on 1/2/2009, 6:35 AM

Use the same method I mentioned earlier in the thread. Go to Edit - Details, copy them all, go to the other project's Edit - Details, and paste them.