Change Timing

[Mike Kujbida]

Since C has several tracks, etc., I think option [a] would be easier.
Figure out where the 97% point is, drop a marker a that spot and Ctrl-drag back to it.

[John Rofrano]

I agree with Mike. Since it’s already a nested project, I would just Ctrl+Drag the event in the parent project. This is the easiest thing to do and should provide the same results as if you had painstakingly adjusted everything in the original project. I don’t know if you are familiar with After Effects but nested projects in Vegas are like nested comps in AE. They are very useful for globally affecting everything in a project.

~jr

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[Tyson Onaga]

OK got it.

However … I have run into a situation where I’d like to “re-space” Track Motion events. I need to do this in the original Vegas project. I.e., is there a Script that can take a Track’s Track Motion events and adjust them by X percent. E.g., all the events play in 60 seconds … I’d like it to be 80 seconds … so a factor 1.333.

This would be a tremendous time saver; else, it is the brute-force method. Thanks again.

[John Rofrano]

There is no script that I know of that does this so I wrote one for you. Just change the percentage to whatever you want. I set it to 1.333 since that’s what you need now (sorry this forum messes up the original indentation):

/**
* Program: AdjustTrackMotion.cs
* Description: This script will adjust Track Motion data by a decimal percentage value
* Value greater than 1 will increase the distance between keyframes (e.g., 1.2 = 120%)
* Values less that 1 will decrease the keyframes (e.g., 0.8 = 80%)
* Copyright: (c) 2009 Sundance Media Group / VASST
* Author: John Rofrano
*
* Revision Date: August 3, 2009
**/

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Sony.Vegas;

class EntryPoint
{
// change this to whatever percentage you want to change the keyframes
private double percentage = 1.333;

public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
{
try
{
VideoTrack videoTrack = FindSelectedVideoTrack(vegas);
if (videoTrack == null)
{
throw new ApplicationException("You must select a video track.");
}

if (!videoTrack.TrackMotion.HasMotionData)
{
throw new ApplicationException("The track you selected has no motion keyframes.");
}

ArrayList keyframes = new ArrayList(videoTrack.TrackMotion.MotionKeyframes);
foreach (TrackMotionKeyframe key in keyframes)
{
key.Position = new Timecode(key.Position.ToMilliseconds() * percentage);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message, "Adjust Track Motion - Error",
MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}
}

///
/// Returns the first selected video track or null of no video track is selected
///
VideoTrack FindSelectedVideoTrack(Vegas vegas)
{
foreach (Track track in vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
// look for a selected video track
if (track.IsVideo() && track.Selected)
{
return (VideoTrack)track;
}
}

return null;
}

}

~jr

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[Tyson Onaga]

John,
Got to try this last night. Worked great! Thanks!
– Tyson

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. Glad I could help out.

~jr

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