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June 29th, 2010, 07:42 PM | #1 |
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Ripple?
How to make all video events on a video track move to become adjacent to each other such as with a ripple effect? I'm selecting numerious, short, clips from video and moving them to a new empty video track above. After doing this I want them to "come together", so to speak.
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June 29th, 2010, 08:34 PM | #2 |
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Don't know if you use Excalibur-there's a script in it to do just that. Perhaps there's a stand alone script floating around out there.
Otherwise if you move the clips to another track I can't think of any way to eliminate the gap between the clips. Ripple won't work since the clips are on a new track, so other thn a script the only way I can think of is move 1 clip over then ripple, move another, ripple, repeat as necessary. Yuk!
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June 29th, 2010, 08:55 PM | #3 |
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Don, I don't use Excalibur. I do use Ultimate S, never thought to see if it offers anything like it. Yeah I've been doing it the tedious way a long time, and it just occured to me there might be a more efficient way. Thanks for your reply.
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June 29th, 2010, 08:55 PM | #4 |
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Jeff, this is an old script so I have no idea if it will work with newer versions of Vegas or not but it's worth a try.
Save it as DeleteEmptySpaceBetweenEvents.js /** * Program: * Description: This script will Delete Empty Space Between Events In Selected Tracks * Author: Philip * * Date: August 31, 2003 **/ import Sony.Vegas; import System.Windows.Forms; import Microsoft.Win32; //time intervals for split events. try { // step through all selected video events: var FirstTrack : Track = Vegas.Project.Tracks.Item(0); // step through all selected video events: for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks) { if( !track.Selected) continue; var tracktime = new Timecode(0); for (var evnt in track.Events) { evnt.AdjustStartLength(tracktime,evnt.Length,true); tracktime = tracktime + evnt.Length; } } } catch (errorMsg) { MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation); } |
June 29th, 2010, 09:06 PM | #5 |
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Mike, very kind of your to share. It "kind of worked". Unfortunately, it adjusted the size of the clips which was weird and not good, so I can't use it, but I have never taken text as you sent it and made a script before, so that was interesting....thanks!
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June 29th, 2010, 09:46 PM | #6 |
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Jeff, what do you mean by "it adjusted the size of the clips"?
Are you using some type of HD footage and it changed it to SD or what? I just tried the script with several SD clips and it worked as claimed. |
June 29th, 2010, 10:17 PM | #7 |
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It stretched a few of them out...here's an example...
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Jeff, I'm sure Ultimate S has a tool that will remove spaces between clips. If you have Ultimate S and haven't gone through the various tools to see what it can do, I strongly recommend you do so. Scripts can save you so much time.
I don't know how many times someone has asked a question and I mention Excalibur can do that. Then they reply, Oh, I own Excalibur - didn't think to look there. Learn what your tools can do and they can save you a LOT of time.
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June 30th, 2010, 06:52 AM | #9 |
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Thanks Edward...I did look through it, it has dozens of tools I've never looked at!
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