Product inquiry: script question

k7107 wrote on 9/10/2003, 9:39 AM

My work group and I are considering Vegas 4 for a research project on parent-child interaction. I understand that the program is capable of script control, but, as I am not a programmer myself, I'd like to know if it is possible (and how onerous) it would be to write a script to do the following task:
1) locate a specific point in an mpeg file (the beginning of the episode I'm interested in studying, let's say time stamp 00:01:43)
2) delete footage previous to that point
3) locate another point in the mpeg (the end of the episode)
4) chop the remaining footage into pieces (where I can adjust the size of the pieces)
5) insert a blank screen in between the original pieces (I'd like to be able to adjust the duration of the blank screen)
6) save the resulting file

I'd appreciate any guidance on this matter.

Thanks.

Kurt
Home Visitors Study
Center for Human Services Research
Rockefeller College
State University of New York

Comments

jetdv wrote on 9/10/2003, 10:40 AM

Assuming YOU enter the beginning and ending timecodes AND the size you want each pieces (or would place markers at the important points), and the size you want the blank areas:

YES

By using markers to indicate the split point, you could use the marker names to indicate the amount of space you want added allowing for variable length sizes on the clips and variable length sizes on the blank areas.

k7107 wrote on 9/10/2003, 11:15 AM

Fantastic!! This sounds exactly like what I want to do. While I'm going to try to rely on the programmer we have in-house, and see if I can learn some of this stuff myself, I'll likely be in touch with the forum for guidance. In the meantime, if anyone else is willing to offer any hints on what this script would involve, please accept my gratitude in advance.

Cheers.

Kurt