New keyframing tool for Vegas

roger_74 wrote on 2/9/2004, 7:39 AM

I have made a script that generates automatic "shakes" for any video event on the timeline.

It's called Vegas Quake. I hope I don't get sued over the name by Sony, the city of Las Vegas or id Software :-) The name isn't important, so I'll call it whatever you like, ok?

It's available at http://www.rmtools.se, free for personal use. Please consider making a donation if you use it commercially, I need webhosting for my tools.

An example of it's usage is available at www.vegasusers.com/vidshare

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stormstereo wrote on 2/11/2004, 9:27 PM

Roger: BTW, do you have any other surprises up your sleeve soon?
Best/Tommy

roger_74 wrote on 2/16/2004, 6:18 AM

Thanks to shogo's post, I came up with a script that creates velocity envelopes on every marker to mimic the effect in the video he linked to. I will probably add some more stuff to it before I release it though.

stormstereo wrote on 2/16/2004, 7:25 PM

Yeah! Keep 'em coming. I will haunt your webpage 'til it's there. Or maybe it's better if you announce it when you're done. I know you have a lot of stuff to do.
Best/Tommy

shogo wrote on 2/16/2004, 7:33 PM

Can't wait for this I was about to give up any hope of intrest in the other post I started but thanks to you my wish came true. The trapcode plugin I was taking about will not support Combustion so this is really cool!

Also would it be possible to have it target specfic FX.
Example: you have a cookie cutter effect and would like to shake just that filter or effect.
Maybe have it target presets, so you could create a preset and then target that preset?

Just a thought, anyways great work man!

Luxo wrote on 2/16/2004, 11:24 PM

Don't think this has been reported. On my machine, if I create a selection beginning at the front of the timeline, the Vegas Quake script blows up *if* you ask it to create a video bus track envelope. If you just create the pan/crop keyframes, it works fine.

I can copy/paste the error message if you can't reproduce Roger.

roger_74 wrote on 2/17/2004, 2:24 AM

Please do, I haven't seen this error before.

What version of Vegas are you using?

Videomonster wrote on 2/22/2004, 9:20 PM

Does anyone know if this script is available for Vegas Video 3.0...I don't have 4.0 yet...I need to get 4.0 soon though...

-Videomonster

Chienworks wrote on 2/22/2004, 9:26 PM

Vegas 3 doesn't support scripting, so i would guess the answer is "no".

Videomonster wrote on 2/22/2004, 9:28 PM

Thanks Chienworks...

-Videomonster

MJhig wrote on 8/8/2004, 12:57 PM

Great job Roger, I just started working with it today, looks like a lot of work went into this.

As described above if you start the region at the beginning of the timeline it produces an error and fails to create the Motion Blur and Supersampling envelopes on my machine also (V 4.0d). No where near a show stopper but since no one has posted the error for you, here it is;

START error;

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.Exception: failed to add envelope point (point may already exist at that location
at SonicFoundry.Vegas.EnvelopePoints.Add(Object item)
at VegasQuake.VegasQuake.CreateSupersamplingEnvelope(Int32 SupersamplingValue)
at VegasQuake.VegasQuake.Quake(Int32 amount, Boolean linkTracks, QuakeMode mode, Boolean Supersampling, Int32 SupersamplingValue, Boolean MotionBlur, Double MotionBlurValue, Boolean SetToBypass)
at VegasQuake.Form1.buttonOK_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
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SonicFoundry.ScriptHost
Assembly Version: 4.4.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.4.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/PROGRAM%20FILES/SONIC%20FOUNDRY/VEGAS%204.0/SonicFoundry.ScriptHost.DLL
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Microsoft.Vsa
Assembly Version: 7.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 7.10.3052.4
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/microsoft.vsa/7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/microsoft.vsa.dll
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Microsoft.JScript
Assembly Version: 7.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 7.10.3052.4
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/microsoft.jscript/7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/microsoft.jscript.dll
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System.Xml
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.windows.forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
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Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa
Assembly Version: 7.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 7.10.3052.4
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/microsoft.visualbasic.vsa/7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/microsoft.visualbasic.vsa.dll
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Interop.VegasCOM
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/PROGRAM%20FILES/SONIC%20FOUNDRY/VEGAS%204.0/Interop.VegasCOM.DLL
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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VegasQuake
Assembly Version: 1.0.1570.28118
Win32 Version: 1.0.1570.28118
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Vegas%20Quake/VegasQuake.dll
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Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
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CodeBase:
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Win32 Version: n/a
CodeBase:
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Accessibility
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/accessibility/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/accessibility.dll
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Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
Win32 Version: n/a
CodeBase:
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.

END error

As the error implies it may be because there is always a default envelope point at the beginning of the timeline.
MJ