A Way to create Multiple Regions at Once?

[Mike Kujbida]

Here’s an old script from John Meyer that should work for you.
I just tried it successfully in Vegas 8 Pro.
Save it as JHM_AddRegionsToEvents.js

/**
* This script will add regions for all events on the selected track
*
* By John Meyer 11/4/2003 (with ideas from Edward Troxel’s “Markers to Events” script)
*
**/

import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;
var evnt : TrackEvent;
var myRegion : Region;
var RegionNumber;

try {

//Find the selected event
var track = FindSelectedTrack();
if (null == track)
throw “no selected track”;

var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);
RegionNumber = 1;
while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
evnt = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());
myRegion = new Region(evnt.Start,evnt.Length,RegionNumber.ToString()); //Insert a region over this event
Vegas.Project.Regions.Add(myRegion);
eventEnum.moveNext();
RegionNumber++;
}

} catch (e) {
MessageBox.Show(e);
}

function FindSelectedTrack() : Track {
var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());
if (track.Selected) {
return track;
}
trackEnum.moveNext();
}
return null;
}

[Josh Money]

Mike,

Thank you for the fastest reply in forum history. That worked perfectly!!! I can’t thank you enough!

Josh Money

[Mike Kujbida]

Josh, gold bars are always a nice way to say thanks 🙂

Seriously, you caught me at a good time and I was pretty sure I had a script to do that in my collection somewhere.
Always happy to help!!

[Fabio Mereghetti]

Would it be possible to mod the script to make it assign the media name to its region?

I created many named subclips and I have to convert them all from 50i to 50p as a first step in order to get a smoother slow motion effect.
I put them all on a single track and I would like the 50p files created automatically with the “Batch render with region names” script could retain the original subclip name.

Thanks.

[Joseph Windowstosky]

I come from the future, with an update for anyone trying to do this. I ran this in my antique Vegas Pro 9 and it worked great, turning events to regions and retaining the active take name.

Save with .js extension – this isn’t a .cs.

import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;
var evnt : TrackEvent;
var myRegion : Region;
try {
//Find the selected event
var track = FindSelectedTrack();
if (null == track)
throw "no selected track";
var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);
while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
evnt = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());
myRegion = new Region(evnt.Start,evnt.Length,evnt.ActiveTake.Name); 
Vegas.Project.Regions.Add(myRegion);
eventEnum.moveNext();
}
} catch (e) {
MessageBox.Show(e);
}
function FindSelectedTrack() : Track {
var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());
if (track.Selected) {
return track;
}
trackEnum.moveNext();
}
return null;
}

[Edward Troxel]

https://youtu.be/wPWcWzLRbDQ?si=BvPwh_uPbpIO9tjI