Last chance to vote on Scripting Requirements

rcampbel wrote on 10/11/2004, 8:41 AM

The Scripting Wish List poll will be open for voting through the end of this week, then we will be sending the results to Sony to help in ranking enhancements to scripting for future Vegas releases.

If you haven't voted already, and have things that you would like to see added to the Scripting API, please vote soon.

Randall

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 10/11/2004, 2:18 PM

Haven't got time at the mo' to figure out this poll thang, but would like to include my pet wishes of:
- Selected timeline events are highlighted in Media Pool
- Tool to purge unused media (removed events and unused takes) .

Maybe this could be done with scripting, or impl;emented natively...

geoff

rcampbel wrote on 10/11/2004, 4:10 PM

Thanks for the input.

I am not sure if you are aware of this, but if you select multiple events on the timeline and then right click on one of them and click on "Select in Media Pool" the media items for all selected events will be highlighted in the Media pool.

For your second requirement, what do you mean by "purged"? Do you want the unused media files deleted from the hard disk? You can remove the media object references from the media pool via the Tools/Clean Media Pool command.

Thanks,

Randall

Geoff_Wood wrote on 10/11/2004, 11:55 PM

>I am not sure if you are aware of this, but if you select multiple events on the timeline and then right click on one of them and click on "Select in Media Pool" the media items for all selected events will be highlighted in the Media pool.

*** But why does this not happen AUTOMATICALLY or optionally) by default. Selected events would of course deselect if anything else clicked in the pool.

> For your second requirement, what do you mean by "purged"? Do you want the unused media files deleted from the hard disk? You can remove the media object references from the media pool via the Tools/Clean Media Pool command.

*** I would like a tool script to do this in one click (selecting those unused events, and remove/deleting them) . Or maybe two clicks - an "are you sure" !

geoff

rcampbel wrote on 10/12/2004, 9:41 AM

Geoff,

Thanks for the clarification. We have an item in the scripting wish list to expose the ability to select a media event. For your requirement for media to be selected automatically, I would suggest that you also submit a feature request to Sony.

It would not be difficult to write a script to go through the media pool and delete all of the unused media from the hard disk (after an Are you Sure prompt). This is still a bit dangerous, since media may be used in multiple projects. If this is what you want, let me know and I can whip something together for you.

Randall