My First Script - I Can Make It Available If You Want In

Boodabang wrote on 11/15/2003, 10:42 PM
I'm working on a music video and I'm keyframing event effects in time with the music. It was tedious trying to set an event effect's keyframe in the effect timeline to match up with the beats of an audio track because the effect timeline is relative to the length of the event which doesn't match up with the event'sabsolute time in the main timeline. (Does that make any sense?)

Perhaps there is a way around this problem that I am unaware of (I'm a newbie to Vegas), but I wrote a script as a work around. The script shows you the list of effects applied to the selected event on the timeline. Select which effects you want keyed and click "Ok". The script inserts a keyframe in the correct place on the effect relative to where the cursor is in the main timeline.

Now I can place the cursor on the main timeline based on a moment in the audio and set effect keys lickedy-split for event effect! If this seems useful to you let me know and I will make it available.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 11/16/2003, 11:13 AM
It sounds useful, and I think I can see how you can insert a keyframe, but how do you determine what values, for each fX, to set for each keyframe? I would think you'd end up with keyframes that would have the same values as the previous keyframe in the effect.
Boodabang wrote on 11/16/2003, 12:19 PM
No, I don't have a way of setting the values for the keyframe that gets set...but that's not the part that is tedious for me. It's trying to synch a keyframe up visually with audio that is hard.

With this script I can quickly set keyframes that are guaranteed to synch up and then go back and tweak away with the particular values.

Just as an FYI, I'm also adding in the ability to keyframe the event's motion at the same time too.
jetdv wrote on 11/16/2003, 11:36 PM
You CAN set the keyframe to a PRESET.
Boodabang wrote on 11/17/2003, 11:15 AM
Yeah, I guess I could provide the option to set the keyframe to an effect preset. But I figure since I'm going to go and tweak the setting anyway I'll just do it then.
Luxo wrote on 11/20/2003, 5:32 PM
This seems too obvious, but you said you're a newbie to Vegas. You know about the sync cursor to timeline button inside the FX editor window, right? Turn that on, and with the FX window open you can click anywhere on the main timeline and the cursor will move to that point within the FX keyframe timeline.

It sounds so confusing writing these things out.... :-)
Boodabang wrote on 11/24/2003, 9:03 AM
Yes, I am a Vegas noob and no, I didn't know about it!

However, this script will still come in handy because it will key multiple effects and the motion track at once. If anyone else wants it they can get it here: http://www.monkeyfury.com/resources/visualkeyframer.zip