Tell single Event to be from a different Media?

fausseplanete wrote on 6/27/2007, 11:35 PM

I have two Events, each selected (by mark in/out points) from the same sub-section of a Media file. How do I tell just one of the Events to be based on the same selection of a different Media file? I know about [Event > Select in Project media List ... Replace] but that doesn't work in this particular case, because it affects both Events. What I'd like to see is an option in Properties for the Event, to reassign to a different Media file/object, but it doesn't exist. Is there a way round this, either directly or using a script?

(Also, in case anyone from SonyVegas is reading this, it would help if the Event Properties or "Take" showed the in/out times).

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Teetow wrote on 7/8/2007, 8:00 PM

I'm not at a Vegas-enabled computer right now, but AFAIK any offset time is retained when switching source media.

If it isn't, it should be a very simple matter in scripting. Store the offset point, switch source file, and then re-set the offset point.

SonyPJM wrote on 8/8/2007, 9:15 AM

I think one key thing is currently missing in the scripting API to
make this script more feasable... the ability to determine which media in
the MediaPool is selected.

If the script could find the selected media, it could replace the
selected event(s) with the selected media. The script would add a new
take, set its offset to match the active take's offset, make it
active, and possibly remove the old take.

Please stay tuned... a future release may address the selected media
issue.

Teetow wrote on 8/9/2007, 9:41 AM

I agree.

I recently wrote a script to check and correct the source path of media files for forbidden paths (we store all media on a filerserver, the use of local files is forbidden) and the Media / MediaStream / Take / Event correlation took a while to figure out.

Fingers crossed!