Script to replace clips

benredstar wrote on 4/16/2012, 4:22 AM

Hello all

Wondering if anyone who is up to speed on scripting in Vegas could give me a pointer as to how easy it would be to implement a script to do the following.

I have an edit of an animation movie in which all the clips are currently low-resolution test version of each shot. Each clip is thus names XXX_test_v00Y where XXX is the name of the shot and Y is a version number. Each clip has a corresponding full resolution version which is named XXX_final_v00Y and what I want is a script that will go through the edit and replace each test clip with it's final version so I can conform the movie in full resolution. Presently I have to do this by hand - and with over 100 clips it's a very tedious job!.

If anyone can give me an idea as to whether this easy to do that would be a good start! If anyone wants to go further and offer any help as to how to actually do it that would be awesome!

/ben

Comments

altarvic wrote on 4/16/2012, 8:37 AM

There are several scripts (free and commercial), which can replace media files, but most of them expect that the file name is the same (only the file extensions are different). So, maybe you 'd better use file renaming utilities, such as Bulk Rename Utility ?

johnmeyer wrote on 4/16/2012, 2:29 PM

Bulk Rename is a great renaming utility, and that would certainly be a good way to proceed.

The thing you want to do is very similar in concept to editing by proxy. What that means is using a low res version of the video for editing, which keeps the timeline performance going fast, but then switching to the high-res versions just prior to rendering.

So, you might want to do a search for Vegas Proxy Editing and look into one of several scripts that exist which will replace the low-res video with the high res versions. You may find that both versions need to be named the same, but located in different folders. If this is the case, the Bulk Rename utility will definitely be able to handle the renaming chore for you.