Vegas 6 Script Developers Kit

Vegas - The Big Gamble wrote on 4/18/2005, 8:54 AM
Anyone know when we can expect a Vegas 6 Script Developers Kit?

I'm assuming that's the only way we can know what changes/additions have been made to scripting functionality in Vegas 6.

I've really been hoping for so long that we will finally be able to set & control text in Generated Media.. but I still can't tell if we can!

Thanks

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SonyPJM wrote on 4/18/2005, 9:17 AM
I just posted a "What's new in Vegas 6.0a" message to the forum.

The updated API docs can be found here.

I'm still working on an updated SDK download.
Vegas - The Big Gamble wrote on 4/18/2005, 3:50 PM
It's ok PJM.. it doesn't appear what I had been hoping for has been implemented :o(

By the way *please* can someone from Sony explain why? Generated text set through scripting would make a world of difference for captioning, title headings, countdowns - so many potential uses, yet it doesn't seem like that would be a hard thing to put into the app! If it is, I'd love to know more.

With respect,

Drew
SonyPJM wrote on 4/19/2005, 7:01 AM

I agree, being able to set text via script is highly desirable.

Currently, the set of parameters for each video effect and generator
is treated like a black-box from Vegas' perspective... it is just a
blob of data that is managed solely by the plug-in itself. Currently
there's no generic way to expose individual parameters to the
scripting API.

What is needed is a new plug-in API which exposes the names, types,
constraints, etc. of each parameter. Then, each effect plug-in will
need to be rewritten with this new API.
Vegas - The Big Gamble wrote on 4/23/2005, 11:26 AM
Sounds good to me!!!

How much do you want for doing that then ;o)

Seriously - if this does happen it will have real benefits for workflow and open the way for scripters to do so much more.

Also the main interface could benefit from a function to right-click on a piece of generated text media and "Clone this Text Media using imported text file", taking each line from a .txt and making a new clip with the same params as the highlighted one.

Yum!!