You can use scripting to streamline repetitive tasks, integrate with external applications, and implement customized features.

If you don't have programing experience then it might be hard to imagine what types of "tasks" a script can do or have the ability to find out what Vegas scripting is capable of doing. I just used a combination of scripts to output all events on the timeline as seperate .avi files using their original file names. I could have done this one event at a time myself (very time consuming) .. but the script "automates" the task and does it very quickly. Sooooooo .. a script is a set of instructions to Vegas that execute rapidly to produce a result. This is just one example.

Scripts can increase your productivity by automating repetitive tasks although as Jetdv points out, they can add whole new features to Vegas. If you have ever used macros in Word or Excel, think "Macros on Steroids".

There is a tutorial Using Scripts in Sony Vegas Software on the VASST web site that will give you a good idea about what scripts are and how you can use them in your work flow.

~jr

A concrete example would be this (using pseudocode here, not "real" code)

for each track
- - for each event on that track
- - - - if that event is selected
- - - - - - set a fade-in
- - - - - - set a fade-out

It's very useful once you get into the mindset of "thinking like a script."

I tried this script but keep getting errors that TIMECODE is not being defined as a variable.

Is there a step I'm missing? It's the first script I've tried to run. I copied an existing script, opened it to replace ALL the code, and renamed it.

???