[Edit] I have posted later in this thread an update to this script that uses the embedded marker labels to name the subclips. While this doesn't let you sort the clips in order, it is very useful for my Workflow for Long Projects

End Edit.

I have updated John Rofrano's MediaRegions To Subclips.cs script to do exactly the same thing as his original script, but it uses embedded markers instead of regions (i.e., it creates subclips based on markers). I also converted it to Jscript (because there were several commands I couldn't figure out how to do in C#).

The problem I have, which is probably in John's original script as well, is that there is some strange rounding at frame boundaries. When I look at the Project Media view after creating subclips, about 10% of these subclips have a Timecode In, Timecode Out, and Length that do not match. For instance, here's one:

Timecode In: 00:00:12:21
Timecode Out: 00:00:25:23
Length: 00:00:13:01

As you can quickly compute, either the Length should be 13:02, not 13:01, or one of the Timecodes should be different. The 13:01 length actually appears to be correct, so I think the problem is Timecode Out. Since the Subclip command lets you set the Timecode in and the Length, but not Timecode Out, it appears that Timecode Out is somehow getting set incorrectly.

If I put the subclips on the timeline one at a time, they are all the correct length and are complete (i.e., no gaps or missing frames). However, if I drag them all to the timeline at once, I get one frame gaps between every 10-20 clips. These gaps occur immediately after each clip that has the problem I demonstrated above. Fortunately, if I move the frame to right of the gap in order to eliminate the gap, and ripple the other events, everything is just fine. Thus, this is not a huge deal, because I have a script that can eliminate all gaps with one click, but I don't like the idea of having a script that introduces errors like this.

I have copied the script below. I can't see any obvious problem here. When I run this script, I run it on a project that uses the standard NTSC DV project settings, but perhaps there is some project variable I must declare or set in order to ensure the correct timing.

/*



  Script: MediaMarkers To Subclips.js

  Based on scripts by Sony Media Software & John Rofrano

  

  This script creates Subclips from markers embedded in the

  selected events' media and then places them in the root mediabin.



  This script is only supported by Vegas version 6.0c and above.



  Converted from C# to Jscript, and modified to work with 

  markers instead of regions by John H. Meyer on January 29, 2007.



*/



import System;

import System.Text;

import System.Collections;

import System.Windows.Forms;

import Sony.Vegas;



try {

        var processedClipCount : int = 0;

        var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);



        while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {   // Go through all tracks



            var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());

            var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);

            if (!track.IsVideo()) {    // Only process video tracks

              trackEnum.moveNext();

              continue;

            }

              while (!eventEnum.atEnd() ) {  // Go through each event on this track

                  var evnt : TrackEvent = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());



                  if (!evnt.Selected) {      // Only process selected events

                    eventEnum.moveNext();

                    continue;

                  }



                  var activeTake : Take = evnt.ActiveTake;



                  if (null == activeTake) {  // Only process events with active takes.

                    eventEnum.moveNext();

                    continue;

                  }



                  var media : Media = activeTake.Media;

                  if (null == media) {

                    eventEnum.moveNext();

                    continue;

                  }



                  // Initialize variables

                  var eventStart   : Timecode = evnt.Start;

                  var eventEnd     : Timecode = eventStart + evnt.Length;

                  var takeOffset   : Timecode = activeTake.Offset;

                  var position     : Timecode;

                  var lastposition : Timecode = eventStart;

                  var labelprefix  : String;



                  // Interate over through the embedded markers and make subclips

                  var markerEnum = new Enumerator(media.Markers);  // Start going through all the markers

                  var PrevMarker = markerEnum.item();              // Remember first marker



                  while (!markerEnum.atEnd()) {                    // Keep going until last marker

                      var mm = markerEnum.item();

                      var clipName : String = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(media.FilePath);



                      if (mm.Position != ( lastposition - eventStart ) ) { // Don't process if marker is at event start

                        position = mm.Position + eventStart - takeOffset;

                        if ( (position < eventStart) || (position > eventEnd) ) {

                          markerEnum.moveNext();

                          continue;

                        }

                        // Append counter to media name and pad with leading zeros so media can be sorted in MediaBin.

                        // If you want four digit leading numbers, change "3" to "4" in the next line

                        labelprefix = RepeatedConcat("0",3-processedClipCount.ToString().length) /

                        +  processedClipCount.ToString() + " - " + clipName;



                        // Create the Subclip

                        var clip = new Subclip(media.FilePath, lastposition, mm.Position-lastposition, false, labelprefix);

                        Vegas.Project.MediaPool.RootMediaBin.Add(clip);

                        processedClipCount++;

                      } // End if mm.Position



                      lastposition = mm.Position;     // Remember this marker position to create next subclip

                      markerEnum.moveNext();          // Get next marker



                  } // End While Marker



              // Create final subclip if there was no marker at exact end of media

              if (lastposition != eventEnd) { 

                 labelprefix = RepeatedConcat("0",3-processedClipCount.ToString().length) /

                +  processedClipCount.ToString() + " - " + clipName;

                 clip = new Subclip(media.FilePath, lastposition, evnt.Length-lastposition, false, labelprefix);

                 Vegas.Project.MediaPool.RootMediaBin.Add(clip);

                 processedClipCount++;

              }



              eventEnum.moveNext();

            } // End While Eventenum



        trackEnum.moveNext();

        } // End While TrackEnum



        MessageBox.Show(processedClipCount.toString() + " markers/subclips processed.");



} catch (e) {

    MessageBox.Show(e);

}



function RepeatedConcat(concatStr,intCount) { 

    var arrTmp = new Array(intCount+1); 

    return arrTmp.join(concatStr);

} 





/* END OF SCRIPT */