copy snapshot to clipboard

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

You can put any script you’d like on the Toolbar using Customize Toolbar command.
Double click the toolbar, the Customize Toolbar option opens. Scroll down to find the script, double click that (or use the Add option) and it’ll now appear on your toolbar.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Edward Troxel]

If you have a script that saves a snapshot to a file, just remove the file parameter from the “SaveSnapshot” command and it will copy to the clipboard instead.

Edward Troxel

[Arthur Pembleton]

Thank you for your quick responses.

I guess I didn’t make myself clear. What I’m looking for is a keyboard short cut to “Copy Snapshot to Clipboard.” I’m logging many hours of dance video, with reference pix of each entry. It would simply speed things up if I didn’t have to use the mouse at that point.

Thanks, again.

[Graham Bernard]

Ah! I was waiting to get some idea of just why you were wanting to have an automated option for something like “Copy To Clipboard”, which, in essence, is a one shot function. Now that I know a bit more and that you wish to make this process more automatic, how about rolling the video and hitting the M key at those points where you wish to create a still/thumbnail and fire off a script to create and collect all these – 10, 100, 10,000 shots you wish?

The Vasst and the JetDv.com sites have much to offer and this is where I got this link from and where I got this next site from:

https://s92274348.onlinehome.us/vegas.html

Here you will find a storehouse of scripts.

The one I just reassured myself that works, and in VP8, is TumbnailAtMarker.js script.

And it does exactly what I said.

As my video rolls by, and hitting the M marker key, I get a seris of markers. I then ran the script; it creates a bunch of Marker placed thumbnails within the folder. I then scooped these up out of the folder and plopped them on the timeline.

What do you think?

Actually, I don’t know about 10,000, hadn’t tested it that far!

Grazie

[Arthur Pembleton]

Thank you, Grazie. Lot’s to digest. I’d use the “Marker” solution under other circumstances, but I’m logging “selects” and whole takes as I go along. This requires that I take a single snapshot in Vegas, which I’d like to do with a keystroke, and then I switch to Word, where I paste the image, along with entering information about the select or take. It’s the taking my hand from the keyboard to mouse and then navigating to the “Save Snapshot to Clipboard” that wastes the time. A keystroke would be an incredible time saver.

[Edward Troxel]

And, as I said, you can get that exact functionality via a script which you can assign to any keypress you want. There’s several scripts that save snapshots to file out there. I wouldn’t take much to modify them to go to the clipboard instead.

Edward Troxel

[Arthur Pembleton]

Thanks Ed, I’ll give it a try.