Programming own capture program

R. Heffels wrote on 10/31/2005, 5:53 AM

In Vegas you can easily use an external capture program so I'd like to use this function for my own little experiment.

We have a capture PC which captures blocks of video of 5 minutes onto a hard disk.
I'd like a programmer to make a capture tool that will take videofiles and make them available as if they were on timeline.
You can jog/shuttle/forward/rewind/play this time line and make in- and outpoint.

You can then make a clip in the media library from the selection you just made with in- and outpoints.

No actual clips are ever made, just references to the original material.

Is this possible to do ?
Is Vegas "open" enough to let me program this and make it work ?

Other solutions are welcome too ofcourse :-)

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/1/2005, 5:01 AM

> You can then make a clip in the media library from the selection you just made with in- and outpoints. No actual clips are ever made, just references to the original material.

If you man the Media Pool, then media pools are specific to a particular Vegas project. So you would need to already have a project open in Vegas. At that point why not just use Vegas. You can do this right in the Vegas trimmer and use SubClips. Writing a program that scrubs video is not a trivial task (and is way beyond scripting). I would do this with the Vegas Trimmer window. That’s what it was designed for.

~jr