Vegas 8.0c External Control Problems! at DVinfo.net

Angus Findlay · April 1st, 2009, 11:30 PM

Hi there, I apologize if this has been covered before, but I couldn't find anything at all after extensive searching both on DVinfo and Google.

I'm a long-time Vegas user, and have just picked up a Korg Nanokontrol to simplify my workflow. After about an hour of playing with it, I find that it works very well for the most part, but there's a serious, glaring error in the way Vegas handles external control: There is NO way to do multi-camera editing with an external control. This was the primary reason for me to buy this controller, and I just can't believe that Sony didn't put this feature in.

It seems that the extent of multi-camera support through external control is to enable and disable the multi-cam mode. This simply isn't good enough. If there's no way to change multi-camera takes externally, I will likely return the control surface and go back to the old way of doing things.

One thought does spring to mind - MIDI to HID translation. A little program that could sit in the background, listening for the MIDI events coming from the control surface, and spitting out the appropriate keyboard commands. I can do about 90% of the coding for this, using Processing 1.0, but I have no idea how to insert keypresses. Any programming gurus out there interested in helping? Obviously, the Vegas external control would have to be turned off to make this work, making it a somewhat less than optimal solution.

Edward Troxel · April 2nd, 2009, 06:51 AM

As long as you can assign keypresses to the external control, you should be able to assign "1", "2", "3", "4", etc... as needed to get it to switch cameras. Or are you trying to use it to fade different tracks in and out? If you add a composite envelope to each track, you may be able to use the sliders to control different envelopes.

Angus Findlay · April 2nd, 2009, 08:59 AM

Wow, I didn't think that had posted. It kept giving me gateway timeout errors.

Unfortunately, the Korg software doesn't allow for keypresses to be assigned to the buttons on the surface.

Does anybody know of a piece of universal software to translate MIDI messages to keypresses?

April 1st, 2009, 11:30 PM	#1
Angus Findlay New Boot Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Edmonton, AB Posts: 12	Vegas 8.0c External Control Problems! Hi there, I apologize if this has been covered before, but I couldn't find anything at all after extensive searching both on DVinfo and Google. I'm a long-time Vegas user, and have just picked up a Korg Nanokontrol to simplify my workflow. After about an hour of playing with it, I find that it works very well for the most part, but there's a serious, glaring error in the way Vegas handles external control: There is NO way to do multi-camera editing with an external control. This was the primary reason for me to buy this controller, and I just can't believe that Sony didn't put this feature in. It seems that the extent of multi-camera support through external control is to enable and disable the multi-cam mode. This simply isn't good enough. If there's no way to change multi-camera takes externally, I will likely return the control surface and go back to the old way of doing things. One thought does spring to mind - MIDI to HID translation. A little program that could sit in the background, listening for the MIDI events coming from the control surface, and spitting out the appropriate keyboard commands. I can do about 90% of the coding for this, using Processing 1.0, but I have no idea how to insert keypresses. Any programming gurus out there interested in helping? Obviously, the Vegas external control would have to be turned off to make this work, making it a somewhat less than optimal solution. __________________ Angus Findlay http://www.findlayproductions.ca/

April 2nd, 2009, 06:51 AM	#2
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	As long as you can assign keypresses to the external control, you should be able to assign "1", "2", "3", "4", etc... as needed to get it to switch cameras. Or are you trying to use it to fade different tracks in and out? If you add a composite envelope to each track, you may be able to use the sliders to control different envelopes. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

April 2nd, 2009, 08:59 AM	#3
Angus Findlay New Boot Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Edmonton, AB Posts: 12	Wow, I didn't think that had posted. It kept giving me gateway timeout errors. Unfortunately, the Korg software doesn't allow for keypresses to be assigned to the buttons on the surface. Does anybody know of a piece of universal software to translate MIDI messages to keypresses? __________________ Angus Findlay http://www.findlayproductions.ca/