Vegas Video discussions from 2005 (Q1Q2)

[Edward Troxel]

Procedure:

Go through all tracks until you find the first selected track
Go through all events on that track until you find the one under the cursor

Set the "Selected" flag of that event to true.


If you want to make sure it is the ONLY selected event then you need to make sure the Selected flag is set to false on ALL other events in the project.

Click the link under my name for more scripting details OR contact me directly and I can help you out.

[Emre Safak]

Understood.

I presume you determine which event is under the cursor by ensuring that the event starts before the cursor and ends after it (therefore the cursor is in the middle.)

[Emre Safak]

Thank you, sir! I ended up with the following:

import Sony.Vegas;

var i;

var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());

while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
 	for (i=0; i<track.Events.Count-1; i++) {
 		if (track.Selected &&
 			track.Events[i].Start < Vegas.Cursor &&
 			track.Events[i+1].Start > Vegas.Cursor)
 				track.Events[i].Selected=true; 				
 		else
 			track.Events[i].Selected=false;
 		}
  	trackEnum.moveNext();
  	track=Track(trackEnum.item());
}

The only problem is that I could not disable the beep upon completion of the script.

[Edward Troxel]

Not sure why you would be getting a beep. I would change:

track.Events[i+1].Start > Vegas.Cursor)


because it is POSSIBLE that the "next" event starts after the cursor but the "current" event stops BEFORE the cursor.

Instead, use:

(track.Events[i].Start + trackEvents[i].Length) > Vegas.Cursor)

[Emre Safak]

Absolutely right; I fixed it. The beep was due to an incorrect hotkey assignment. I filed it under TrackView instead of Global. Now it is working perfectly...I can hop from event to event with a touch of a button.

Thank you!

[Shannon Rawls]

Ran some tests on Saturday. Running some more today. One thing I noticed:

If you run Sony Vegas Capture 5.0 and plug your camera up via Firewire (dv downconverted=yes), then In all modes on the Z1U you get to see a live action preview of what the camera is seeing. At any point you can hit the "CAPTURE VIDEO" button and begin capturing that footage to your computer...easy as pie.... My camera was in 1080i HDV mode (as I will always keep it), I had the downconversion ON via firewire, and I tried capturing directly to computer with Sony Vegas Capture in ALL framing modes of the Z1U.

Z1U in HDV/50i downconverted to DV via firewire mode: CAPTURES LIVE FOOTAGE
Z1U in HDV/CF25 downconverted to DV via firewire mode: CAPTURES LIVE FOOTAGE
Z1U in HDV/60i downconverted to DV via firewire mode: CAPTURES LIVE FOOTAGE
Z1U in HDV/CF30 downconverted to DV via firewire mode: CAPTURES LIVE FOOTAGE
Z1U in HDV/CF24 downconverted to DV via firewire mode: DOES NOT CAPTURE ANY LIVE FOOTAGE.

what happens: If I start capturing cf24 live, for say like 20 seconds...no problem, no dropped frames, clock is running fine. As soon as I hit the STOP button.....the pop up window appears that normally shows your clips simply says "No frames captured" and my thumbnail preview is empty!!

Thats not all....

If I start capturing, for say like 40 seconds or longer...HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM! Frames begin to drop as fast as they are captured (100% of them). and then computer begins to freeze up. If I hit STOP in time before letting the system freeze, the same popup window says "No frames captured" same as before for 20 sesconds or less.

So basically, using CF24 and Sony Vegas Capture 5.0...you will NOT be able to capture live footage from a direct preview via firewire.

However, if you capture your HDV footage to tape in CF24 mode, and then put the camera in VCR mode and THEN do a playback/capture, everything is fine.

Crazy ain't it?

- ShannonRawls.com

[Greg Jacobson]

Thanks for typing this post. It saved me the hassle of typing it. :)

[Bob Benkosky]

Since I have a GL2 I don't have Native 16:9 CCD's so, I obviously have to letterbox the footage in Vegas.

In order to get the footage to properly show up on a 16:9 HD tv as a 16:9 movie what are the proper steps in rendering.

I would think that after you letterbox the final movie's footage, one might want to render the footage say....to DVD NTSC Widescreen right?

So the final footage is in the timeline, render to widescreen dvd, then place footage on dvd, done?

The best thing to do is to letterbox on the last render correct? I've rendered the footage letterboxed and when I import it back into Vegas it looks funny....like squashed.... why is that. The footage properties should be widesceen but it just doesn't look right.

Another thing I wanted to ask is that if I shoot in normal mode, should I run a full pulldown first 3-2 or 3-2-2-3 and then output to 24p or just output to 24p and be done with it?

Another thing, when you output to DVD NTSC do you go progressive or interlaced? I've been going progressive.

[Milt Lee]

Hi folks, just don't know what to call this - so I can't seem to find anyting in my books about it.

BUT - what I want to do is edit a bunch of stuff - shorten some clips to what I want - then import the shortened clips into an old project I'm working on.

Is there a way to do this without having to render each clip?

thanks,
Milt

[Joshua Loomis]

I just stared editing some footage I shot in Germany, and I'm a bit anxious because it seems creating subtitles ain't so easy.
I'm dealing with a lot of German dialogue that needs subtitling.

If anyone has any thoughts on this (vegas solutions, alternate dvd authoring software, some other type of graphics software, etc.) I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

[Keith Paisley]

Ok, it turns out there was some wacky application association that suddenly caused this problem, but what threw me was that it only seemed to be on the newest clips. It's a little weird, because my older clips (authored with ms' wme tool) would play properly when clicked, but the new stuff that was rendered with Vegas wouldn't. Or at least it seemed that way - I actually tried some other clips that were done with MS WME (using the progressive download format) and they too were not behaving as they should have, so I checked a few other things. It turns out it was a hijacked file/app association on this end. I fixed that, so everything (including the .wmv files created within Vegas) "streamload" properly now too. Sorry for the false alarm. I fixed it by going into the windows media player options and retoggling the .wmv filetype association.

[Edward Troxel]

If you want true DVD sub-titles, you need to upgrade to Vegas 5 + DVDA 2. Subtitles were added in DVDA2.

Alternately, in DVDA2 you can have multiple audio tracks so you could have one in German and one in English, for example.

[Edward Troxel]

Here's one way that would work:

Create sub-clips for all the sections you want to keep (Extract Good Clips in Tsunami is a good tool to simplify this task)

Put all of those sub-clips in a specific bin in the media pool

Copy that bin from one project to the other (i.e. Open Vegas twice - once for each project. Make the media pool in each visible, and drag that bin between the two.)

[Frank Aalbers]

Nobody huh ?

[Edward Troxel]

Did you have it set to scene detect? If yes, try turning that off.

Did you have the minimum clip length turned on? If yes, try turning that off.