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  scripting on vegas pro 8 – changing media paths

  Posted by Yoshifumi Kobayashi on November 17, 2009 at 5:45 am

  I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a script that handles(changes) media paths.

  I am currently working on a project with another person, and we have to exchange project files because we work on different parts of the project.

  The problem is that I have my media files saved in a different path from where the other person has them saved. So everytime I recieve the project with all the media files, I have to replace the media files and then re-save the vegas project files and…..so on.

  So, I was wondering if it would be possible to change the media paths saved in the vegas file, without having have to move the actual vegas files, by using a script of some sort.

  I usually recieve all the vegas files in its own folder with all the neccesary media files in it. So it kinda looks like this.

  …\project1\project1.veg
  …\project1\file1.avi
  …\project1\file2.wav
  …\project1\file3.wav
  …\project1\file4.wav

  …\project2\project2.veg
  …\project2\file5.avi
  …\project2\file6.wav
  …\project2\file7.wav
  …\project2\file8.wav

  but I like to sort out all the files like this

  …\projects\project1\project1.veg
  …\projects\project2\project2.veg
  …\avi\file1.avi
  …\avi\file5.avi
  …\wav\file2.wav
  …\wav\file3.wav
  …\wav\file4.wav
  …\wav\file6.wav
  …\wav\file7.wav
  …\wav\file8.wav

  I can move the media files around myself but currently, I also have to move, re-open, and save the vegas files in the /avi/ and /wav/ folders so that those paths will be saved in the vegas file.

  Is there a way to change the paths of the media files without having to go through all the hassle? Maybe with a script?

  Yoshifumi Kobayashi replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Mike Kujbida

  November 17, 2009 at 5:58 pm

  Trust me when I say that it would make things a lot easier if you both followed the same folder structure.
  By the way, I prefer the structure that the other person uses as it’s always made sense to me to keep files for project #1 in it’s own master folder, files for project #2 in it’s own master folder, etc.
  It makes doing things like backing up projects much easier.
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  Yoshifumi Kobayashi

  November 19, 2009 at 3:11 am

  thank you for your response.

  okay, so here’s where the real problem lies. “the other person” that I was referring to is actually “another company” that we’re working together with and many of the projects contain the same media file in them.

  the projcets that we’re working on are actually little bits of “scenes” from a long movie and many of those scenes use sound effects that aren’t finalized yet AND we have couple of hundread of scenes using the same sound effect that needs to be updated every now and then. so we really want to keep those media files in one place just to make sure we don’t forget to copy them into all the folders.

  I’m new to all the scripting on vegas(started learning hours ago) but this seems like a good way to solve the problem, no?

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