Render to flac: Forced profile? tags?

persistent wrote on 3/10/2008, 1:01 AM

I need a script that renders to flac files in much the same way that the batch render script does. I can make most of the changes that I need, but am wondering where I can find more detailed info on how to force a particular set of flac render parameters without a profile and how I can force tags into the flac file.

Thanks

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/10/2008, 4:56 AM

You can't do anything without a template. The renderer is a "black box" to scripting. All you can do is get a renderer and apply an existing template so you'll have to make one for flac first.

~jr

persistent wrote on 3/10/2008, 8:50 AM

Thanks for the reply..

If you can't set render parameters through any means other than setting a profile, I guess it's too much to hope that I might talk the flac renderer into writing tags into the file for me.... Bummer.

Where did you learn this? Inference from the API document?

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/10/2008, 8:24 PM

> Where did you learn this? Inference from the API document?

Yes, the API documentation and years of programming with the Vegas Script API. Renderers, Media Generators, Sony FX, etc. are all "black-box". All you can do is apply presets but you can't get to any of the parameters.

According to the thread Scripting MPEG-2 compression settings there is an undocumented API to open the template editing dialog but you would then have to find the template and apply it. There is no way to change it via the Script API.

~jr

persistent wrote on 3/11/2008, 8:42 AM

No what I had hoped for, but completely livable.

Thanks for the replies.