Network Distributed Scripting

Roman wrote on 4/5/2006, 8:21 AM
Hi all,

I am very new to Vegas Scripting, but I am an experienced programmer and a professional video editor. I have been tasked with developing the script that can open an HD clip stored on a server, crop the clip based on the in and out points stored in a database, put a fade in and fade out in the beginning and end, and then export the clip in multiple file formats to a new location on the server. To make this even better, and since we have multiple computers that all have Vegas, I would like the script to be able to run simultaniously on multiple computers. I see that Vegas has a Network Render feature, can that be used to work with scripts?

I need some help getting started, I would like to use C# if I can, or JScript if I must. What do I do in Visual Studio to make it work with Vegas, and then how do I actually run the script on one or multiple machines? Any help/guidence/tutorials/examples would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Roman

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jetdv wrote on 4/5/2006, 8:49 AM
I see that Vegas has a Network Render feature, can that be used to work with scripts?

No.

I would like to use C# if I can, or JScript if I must. What do I do in Visual Studio to make it work with Vegas, and then how do I actually run the script on one or multiple machines? Any help/guidence/tutorials/examples would be greatly appreciated.

C# is fine. You can either do straight C# code as a text file which Vegas can run directly or you can compile to a .dll file. There's some information on how to do that in Vegas 5 on the PeachRock website and also quite a bit of scripting info on my website.

Send me an e-mail if you wouldn't mind.