batch edits

[Peter Wright]

If you put them all on a time line and add the text in a track above, each can be made a Region, then use a script such as Batch Render GUI to render Regions to whichever format you like.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Bryan Wells]

Can I have the regions rendered out to indentically named files in another directory?

[Bryan Wells]

I mean so each file that is opened will be rendered to the same named file as the file that was opened.

[Edward Troxel]

Yes but it may require a script modification if you use the built-in batch renderer.

Edward Troxel

[Bryan Wells]

I have never written or run a script before. I can deal with writing a script, but i dont understand how regions help me. As I understand it, a region spans a section on the time line. So how is a region helping me have each track render to a separate file?

Here is what I have.

1) I imported all 30 of my video clips
2) I added a lead in title

Now I want to render each track (some with audio, some without) to a separate file. It is fine if they are not named right for now; I can rename them later. Does the batch renderer do this? I found virtually no documentation on scripts or how they work.

[Peter Wright]

Are you sure you mean render each track? If, for instance you had 30 clips on a track then rendered that track, you would have a single video file containing all 30 clips.

A region is a vertical “slice” of the timeline, which can contain anything from One to an unlimited number of tracks. To create a region, drag over the required area, hit R and give it a name.

You don’t have to write a script – once you’ve done what you want to your video and created a region for each, Tools > Scripting > Batch Render … select destination directory, format to render to and select Render Regions. Click OK and the script will do it all for you.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Bryan Wells]

I dont think what i want can be done.

I have 30 separate video clips. I want to add a 5 second lead to each clip. That is all.

Bryan

[Peter Wright]

What you want can be done, IF you create a region for each clip plus it’s new lead-in.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Bryan Wells]

Thanks Peter.

I was not thinking very clearly. I understand now.

Can you tell me, from inside the Java script, how I can access the clip’s file name given a region that contains the clip? Where can I get the API documentation on the scripting language?

Bryan

[Bryan Wells]

I have found the script documentation. I have found an example script that almost does what I want. The sample script DirectoryConverter.js renders a video from one folder into another. All I need is to prepend a video with each of the videos in the folder before rendering out to the new folder. So can anyone tell me how I can concatinate two video clips using java script?

Thanks
Bryan