Question for Sony - which I know others will be asking! ;o)
Just wondering if we can expect any scripting changes/enhancements in the next major version of Vegas?
I'm assuming details about scripting features are less sensitive than Video or Audio details prior to release.
For me the big, obvious, killer feature would be to allow a way to programmatically create and alter Text Media. It really feels like that would open a world of possibilities for captioning, creating on-screen timers and adding text data to video projects.
I have seen so many areas in which this could automate processes - obvious ones being able to create all the interviewee name captions for a documentary in one go by just reading the list in from a text file and laying them out with a consistent in/out transition on the timeline, so you can then reposition at will.
But a more unusual example was to create a series of video messages for an onboard train system which used MPEG files. They wanted a sequence of about 20 messages, regularly changed, with daily service info and special events etc.. It just seems so silly to be copying & pasting 20 lumps of text into Vegas manually when you can automate so many other complex things!
If it weren't for that step I could actually automate the whole process from receiving the client's text content via a web form, to processing, rendering and then FTPing the video files directly into the client system. It seems crazy that the part I can't automate is the Text!
So I'm wondering is this really a more complicated thing to implement in Vegas than we realise? What are the chances of it being in Vegas 6?!!
Cheers
drew
Just wondering if we can expect any scripting changes/enhancements in the next major version of Vegas?
I'm assuming details about scripting features are less sensitive than Video or Audio details prior to release.
For me the big, obvious, killer feature would be to allow a way to programmatically create and alter Text Media. It really feels like that would open a world of possibilities for captioning, creating on-screen timers and adding text data to video projects.
I have seen so many areas in which this could automate processes - obvious ones being able to create all the interviewee name captions for a documentary in one go by just reading the list in from a text file and laying them out with a consistent in/out transition on the timeline, so you can then reposition at will.
But a more unusual example was to create a series of video messages for an onboard train system which used MPEG files. They wanted a sequence of about 20 messages, regularly changed, with daily service info and special events etc.. It just seems so silly to be copying & pasting 20 lumps of text into Vegas manually when you can automate so many other complex things!
If it weren't for that step I could actually automate the whole process from receiving the client's text content via a web form, to processing, rendering and then FTPing the video files directly into the client system. It seems crazy that the part I can't automate is the Text!
So I'm wondering is this really a more complicated thing to implement in Vegas than we realise? What are the chances of it being in Vegas 6?!!
Cheers
drew