Here are two problems you'll probably run across:

1) You can't put two command markers at the exact same time. The
work-around is to put the second marker in the successive frame like
so:

var start = evnt.Start;

var startPlusOneFrame = evnt.Start;

startPlusOneFrame++;



var marker1 = new CommandMarker(start, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.mydomain.com");

var marker2 = new CommandMarker(startPlusOneFrame, MarkerCommandType.Text, "sample caption");

Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(marker1);

Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(marker2);







2) I'm afraid scripts can not customize the marker command type. One

of the default types must be chosen (one of the static

MarkerCommandType instances).  URL is one of the default types but

"CAPTION" is not. As you see in the code fragment above, I used

MarkerCommandType.Text (TEXT) rather than CAPTION. This was an

oversight in the design of the API and can be fixed but we'll have to

wait for the next release.

I can't thank you enough - this is great! Combined with the "frame offset" tip from sonicJPM, I managed to get my "first" vegas script to work - at least on a basic level - to automate the insertion of both URL and Caption Cmnd Markers at the start of each event. What a time saver. I'm still having issues with getting the timing to work on the additional markers "inside" each event, but this is a great start. Thanks again!

Radiohead303

PJM-

Fantastic - Thanks for your help. Your idea of offsetting the markers by a frame works perfectly!

Would be good in the future to have the option of custom marker command types, but for the time being it's relatively easy to change all of the "TEXT" parameters to "Caption" after everything is set up.

With the script that jetdv provided - along with your tip, I can now place both types of markers at the START of each event. However, I'm having some difficulty finding the right way to duplicate this process to place markers in the MIDDLE of each event. Do you have any tips on how to "divide" the length of each individual event (into halfs or thirds)so that i can repeat the process at those points? I can't seem to make the math work.

Thanks again for your help!

Here's some sample code that does your Timecode "multiplication":

var start = evnt.Start; // event start Timecode

var length = evnt.Length; // event length Timecode

var third = length.ToMilliseconds() / 3; // one third of the event length (in ms)

var oneThird = start + new Timecode(third);

var twoThrids = start + new Timecode(2*third);

var end = start + length; // event end Timecode

Thank you - this makes total sense. I'm just learning how many of these parameters work, so I appreciate the code samples. Let me know if I'm overstaying my welcome here, but this should be an easy one.

The following script puts exactly the correct number of markers (with one-frame offsets for the second marker). The "first set" of markers (at evnt.start and evnt2 (evnt.Start++) lay in perfectly. But the script is placing the "inside" markers (at oneThird, oneThird2, etc.) at the wrong place on the timeline - way outside the selected audio events.

Do you see any obvious logical error with the iteration to explain why the timeline appears to be adding time cumulatively, rather than looking to the "start" of each event for the inside markers?

Do I need to reset Timecode to (0) again for each event? If so, at what point in the code would this go?

I appreciate any input you can offer!
-DR


import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import SonicFoundry.Vegas;
try {
var zeroMark : Timecode = new Timecode(0);
//Find the selected event
var track = FindSelectedTrack();
if (null == track)
throw "no selected track";
var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);
while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
var evnt : TrackEvent = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());
var evnt2 = evnt.Start;
evnt2++;
var start = evnt.Start; // event start Timecode
var length = evnt.Length; // event length Timecode
var third = length.ToMilliseconds() / 3; // one third of the event length (in ms)
var oneThird = start + new Timecode(third);
var oneThird2 = oneThird;
oneThird2++;
var twoThird = start + new Timecode(2*third);
var twoThird2 = twoThird;
twoThird2++;
if (evnt.Start > zeroMark) {
//Put a marker at the start point
var startMarker = new CommandMarker(evnt.Start, MarkerCommandType.Text, "title");
var startMarker2 = new CommandMarker(evnt2, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.customchannels.net")
var onethirdMarker = new CommandMarker(oneThird, MarkerCommandType.Text, "title");
var onethirdMarker2 = new CommandMarker(oneThird2, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.customchannels.net")
var twothirdMarker = new CommandMarker(twoThird, MarkerCommandType.Text, "title");
var twothirdMarker2 = new CommandMarker(twoThird2, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.customchannels.net")
Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(startMarker);
Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(startMarker2);
Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(onethirdMarker);
Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(onethirdMarker2);
Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(twothirdMarker);
Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers.Add(twothirdMarker2);
}
eventEnum.moveNext();
}
} catch (e) {
MessageBox.Show(e);
}
function FindSelectedTrack() : Track {
var trackEnum : Enumerator = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());
if (track.Selected) {
return track;
}
trackEnum.moveNext();
}
return null;
}

You are very welcome and please do keep asking questions.

This turned out to be a tricky problem related to type casting... you really just needed to specify that the variable third is of type double (I think it was converting it to a string and using the Timecode's string constructor). Here's a fixed version of your script (with a few other clean-ups):

import System; 

import System.IO; 

import System.Windows.Forms; 

import SonicFoundry.Vegas; 

try { 

    var zeroMark : Timecode = new Timecode(0); 

    //Find the selected event 

    var track = FindSelectedTrack(); 

    if (null == track)

        throw "no selected track";

    var commandMarkers = Vegas.Project.CommandMarkers;

    var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);

    while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {

        var evnt : TrackEvent = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());

        var start = evnt.Start; // event start Timecode

        var start2 = evnt.Start;

        start2++;

        var length = evnt.Length; // event length Timecode

        var third : double = length.ToMilliseconds() / 3; // one third of the event length (in ms)

        var oneThird = start + new Timecode(third);

        var oneThird2 = start + new Timecode(third);

        oneThird2++;

        var twoThird = start + new Timecode(2*third);

        var twoThird2 = start + new Timecode(2*third);

        twoThird2++;

        if (evnt.Start > zeroMark) {

            //Put a marker at the start point

            var startMarker = new CommandMarker(start, MarkerCommandType.Text, "title");

            var startMarker2 = new CommandMarker(start2, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.customchannels.net");

            var onethirdMarker = new CommandMarker(oneThird, MarkerCommandType.Text, "title");

            var onethirdMarker2 = new CommandMarker(oneThird2, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.customchannels.net");

            var twothirdMarker = new CommandMarker(twoThird, MarkerCommandType.Text, "title");

            var twothirdMarker2 = new CommandMarker(twoThird2, MarkerCommandType.URL, "http://www.customchannels.net");

            commandMarkers.Add(startMarker);

            commandMarkers.Add(startMarker2);

            commandMarkers.Add(onethirdMarker);

            commandMarkers.Add(onethirdMarker2);

            commandMarkers.Add(twothirdMarker);

            commandMarkers.Add(twothirdMarker2);

        }

        eventEnum.moveNext();

    }

} catch (e) {

    MessageBox.Show(e);

}

function FindSelectedTrack() : Track {

    var trackEnum : Enumerator = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);

    while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {

        var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());

        if (track.Selected) {

            return track;

        }

        trackEnum.moveNext();

    }

    return null;

} 

B.T.W. It helps to put code in <PRE> tags here in the scripting forum so that indentation will be preserved.

Wow- This is a huge help and it works perfectly - Thanks!

Two quick questions:
1) Is there a way to get the Event Name (evnt) and use that to populate the "title" parameter of the TEXT command marker? I've tried several approaches with String Name, but can't seem to get the argument right.

2) You suggested putting codes in

 tags to preserve indentations. Can you tell me how do to this? I'm using notepad to edit.



Thanks!

The thing about the TrackEvent.Name property is there's no "normal"
GUI for setting them... they're just sort of a hidden feature exposed
by the scripting API. So you can get and set event names from a script
but you can't see/edit them through the normal API. You can, however,
write a little script with a GUI to edit the name of a selected event.

If, on the other hand, you're talking about Take names, those can be
seen and edited through Vegas' GUI (right click on the event for the
Take Menu). Take names are also accessible through the scripting API:

evnt.Takes[0].Name = "my take name";

var takeName = evnt.Takes[0].Name;

As you can probable see in your last post, the <PRE> tags are just a way to preserve spacing in code that you paste into a forum message.

Thanks - this is perfect. It was the evnt.Takes[0].Name that I was looking for. Now with the script the command marker parameters fill in with the actual name of the event. This is a HUGE timesaver for us. Thanks again.