Script Request: Selected Event Length Box

NickHope wrote on 6/4/2007, 2:40 AM

I really wish Vegas would show the length of an event during ripple editing on the timeline, exactly like lengths of transitions are shown. In other words this:

[IMG=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/bubblevision/would-like.jpg]

In the meantime I keep the edit details window open above the timeline, displaying the length of the selected event. This is a workaround but it's very clumsy:

[IMG=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/bubblevision/doing-now.jpg]

As a better workaround I am wondering if it might be possible to make a script that takes the length of the selected event and shows it in a little window that can be moved about the screen? Something like this:

[IMG=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/bubblevision/script.jpg]

Then it would take up less screen real estate and the edit details window could be used for other purposes. Is it possible?

Comments

jetdv wrote on 6/4/2007, 6:20 AM

Short answer is no.

johnmeyer wrote on 6/4/2007, 7:31 AM

Actually, there is a thread in the Vegas forum where someone is developing a script that might be able to do what you want. Look for that script, download it and use it, and then contact the author.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=529852&Replies=24 [SCRIPT] Go to Event[/link]

NickHope wrote on 6/4/2007, 7:44 AM

Well, what Rosebud has achieved with that script is what made me wonder if this one is possible. I've alerted him to this thread.

NickHope wrote on 2/13/2008, 11:48 PM

Rosebud (Gilles) has now written a wonderful script that addresses this need:

See video forum.