Please Help Me Automate 3 Slide Show Procedures

tygrus wrote on 7/23/2004, 11:14 AM
Maybe a few of these concepts are basic, but I still can't find an automatic way to do them and save myself a ton of time. Perpahs someone would be kind enough to give me some guidance.

Here is the workflow I want to streamline:

1. Drag and drop some 300 photos to the timeline in one big grab. Each photo to come in 10 second long duration with an automatic 2 second crossfade to the adjacent pictures as they come onto the timeline. (I want to avoid having to manually drag each over one another)

2. Adjust the individual properties of every photo to a 1.21 aspect ratio. I know there is a global project setting that has the same setting but if you look closely, only adjusting each and every photo really creates the widescreen look. The project setting have no effect as far as I know.

3. Make the Neon plug in work. I keep getting errors with the trial.

Thats it. If I could get these three things working, I could do slideshows in a few minutes rather than hours.

And if someone could tell me a dvd authoring package that I can totally disable the encoding or rendering I would also be greatful. I make dvd complient mpegs and every program wants to re-encode them over again, including Vegas DVD+. This really ruins the quality.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tygrus

Comments

jetdv wrote on 7/23/2004, 11:41 AM
1) Options - Prefernces - Editing tab
Make the "Default still length" 10 seconds
Make sure "Automatically Overlap" is checked
Make the "Cut to Overlap" setting 2 seconds.

2)


//PixelAspect.js

import Sony.Vegas;

for (var currentTrack : Track in Vegas.Project.Tracks) {

  if (currentTrack.IsVideo() == true) {

    for (var currentEvent : VideoEvent in currentTrack.Events) {

      if (currentEvent.Selected == true) {

        VideoStream(new Media(currentEvent.ActiveTake.MediaPath).Streams.GetItemByMediaType(currentEvent.MediaType, currentEvent.ActiveTake.StreamIndex)).PixelAspectRatio = 1.21;

      }

    }

  }

}


3) 5.0b affected that. DVDA 2.0a fixes the problem if you install that. As a workaround: Go to File - Render As, pick the MPEG1 file format, then pick the MPEG2 file format, then press Cancel. Now the demo of Neon will run.

NOTE: The current release version of Neon runs fine in 5.0b without the workaround - the demo was not updated.
tygrus wrote on 7/23/2004, 12:54 PM
Jet, you are a miracle worker. I really appreciate your help as this will cut down my workflow time.

Tygrus