Scripting without track motion

SeaJohn wrote on 9/28/2004, 6:21 PM

I understand that the Vegas scripting API doesn't support track motion.

Did they leave ALL of track motion out, or is part of it available? I am wanting to write a script which will take a still or clip and use track motion to position and resize it to fit in a specfic part of the screen. This will be necessary for many stills. Am I out of luck in regards to using Vegas' scripting for this?

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rcampbel wrote on 9/28/2004, 7:00 PM

There is no support at all for track motion in the current scripting API.

You may be able to do what you want via pan/crop. Try making the pan/crop handles bigger than the video and then moving it around to see if you can get what you are looking for. Pan/crop is fully scriptable.

Randall

SeaJohn wrote on 9/28/2004, 7:04 PM

Thanks.

Has Sony ever stated why they don't include support for Track Motion? Seems like a significant omission.

jetdv wrote on 9/28/2004, 7:09 PM

No mention has ever been made. If you look at some of my tools like the Video Wall and PIP tools in Tsunami, you'll see that you can do quite a bit using the abilities of Pan/Crop via scripts.