Hi all,
I just can't stop falling in love with Vegas...Vegas! Vegas! Vegas! (Sorry I don't post that often). Okay I have this little annoying issue. First documented in:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=198799
In a nutshell, the solution was
"Loaded a short mjpg in the trimmer (figured more generic, would/should elimiate anything codec or rendering related). Playing back in the trimmer hit pause where I want to grab the still (hitting pause is something recomended, done with so much other software to grab video stills I figured long ago couldn't hurt). If I check the media pool, the picture doesn't appear - doesn't update, until I hit play again in the trimmer which forces refresh, switches to the media pool view, adds the picture. Can also force refresh by switching to explorer view. With another like clip loaded to the timeline, focus can revert to the timeline depending on where I click with the cursor.
From what I can tell, seems a matter of the way the software might work, being event driven, waiting for you to do something & then it reacts - sort of like having to hit refresh in the explorer window to update, show files you've added outside of Vegas. It might be partially due to switching between different modules in the programming - I think depending on that aspect, might not be that difficult to add the code to add the pic to media pool etc. and then revert back to the trimmer window as nec... Someone who's more of a coder (not a high bar at all in my case) could say just how possible or easy it might be, and any possible side effects. I would imagine having fully live updates would involve some sort of polling that could interfere with response editing etc..."
I have been doing this for awhile now (press play after snapshot..then I hit puase) but was wondering if a little-inzy-bitzy script can handle this by invoking an action (play was one way), but keeping it simple enough where I could easy have a hotkey that runs the script.
Here's what I do now:
1.From the trimmer I position a scene I like. I see it in the preview window
2. Hit save snapshot to file, enter file info, then okay
3. Back to trimmer and press play
4. I wait about 3 seconds for the snapshot to appear in the Media pool
5. Return to trimmer to pause the playback.
It would be nice if i would do steps 1,2 and then press that magic key that does step 3,4,5.
Capice?
Anyways, if there is a way, great..I snap about 50-60 pictures and would make it more efficient for me.
Thanks
-Julius
I just can't stop falling in love with Vegas...Vegas! Vegas! Vegas! (Sorry I don't post that often). Okay I have this little annoying issue. First documented in:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=198799
In a nutshell, the solution was
"Loaded a short mjpg in the trimmer (figured more generic, would/should elimiate anything codec or rendering related). Playing back in the trimmer hit pause where I want to grab the still (hitting pause is something recomended, done with so much other software to grab video stills I figured long ago couldn't hurt). If I check the media pool, the picture doesn't appear - doesn't update, until I hit play again in the trimmer which forces refresh, switches to the media pool view, adds the picture. Can also force refresh by switching to explorer view. With another like clip loaded to the timeline, focus can revert to the timeline depending on where I click with the cursor.
From what I can tell, seems a matter of the way the software might work, being event driven, waiting for you to do something & then it reacts - sort of like having to hit refresh in the explorer window to update, show files you've added outside of Vegas. It might be partially due to switching between different modules in the programming - I think depending on that aspect, might not be that difficult to add the code to add the pic to media pool etc. and then revert back to the trimmer window as nec... Someone who's more of a coder (not a high bar at all in my case) could say just how possible or easy it might be, and any possible side effects. I would imagine having fully live updates would involve some sort of polling that could interfere with response editing etc..."
I have been doing this for awhile now (press play after snapshot..then I hit puase) but was wondering if a little-inzy-bitzy script can handle this by invoking an action (play was one way), but keeping it simple enough where I could easy have a hotkey that runs the script.
Here's what I do now:
1.From the trimmer I position a scene I like. I see it in the preview window
2. Hit save snapshot to file, enter file info, then okay
3. Back to trimmer and press play
4. I wait about 3 seconds for the snapshot to appear in the Media pool
5. Return to trimmer to pause the playback.
It would be nice if i would do steps 1,2 and then press that magic key that does step 3,4,5.
Capice?
Anyways, if there is a way, great..I snap about 50-60 pictures and would make it more efficient for me.
Thanks
-Julius