Excalibur (great) question: assigning custom-made buttons to scripts

[Edward Troxel]

You will have to create your own custom buttons if you want them to appear on the toolbar. Here’s how you do that:

Create a new image 16 wide by 32 tall. The top 16×16 will be what you see on the toolbar. The bottom 16×16 will be what you see when you hover the mouse over the button.

If you have created say a 2 second dissolve and the new camera file is named:

Cam1d2-00.js

Then save the image in PNG format as:

Cam1d2-00.js.png

(i.e. the FULL camera name plus “.png” added)

Edward Troxel

[Barend Jasper]

Thanks a million Edward. I’m very pleased that I can make my own buttons, it’ll make life a lot simpler than it already is, thanks to Excalibur.

Another question is the following: I noticed a few times that after a hour of editing, the buttons dissapear. However, if I hover with my mouse over the toolbar, the small yellow pop-up ‘balloon’ appears and I can click on the ’empty’ button. So, the scripts still work, but I simply can’t see the original buttons. Any idea how to make them appear again?

Thanks,

Barend Jasper

[Edward Troxel]

That’s a Vegas issue. Try this:

Tools – Scripting – Rescan Script Menu Folder

That will hopefully bring them back.

Edward Troxel