Exporting text from timeline to text file

[Tyson Onaga]

I know of no way to easily get the text out of Sony Text objects from within Vegas. However, if you have all ProType Titler objects, you can:

1. COPY the .veg file
2. Start Word
3. File Open
4. In File of Type, scroll down and select: Recover Text from Any File
5. Select the COPY of the .veg file

Word will then extract the text. Your PTT objects should show up as XML blocks.

6. Select All
7. Edit Replace (Ctrl H)
8. Replace ^p^p with ^p (double paragraph with single paragraph)

This should remove “blank lines”.

9. Select All
10. Copy
11. Run Notepad
12. Paste

I see this block
twice in Notepad. You probably need only one (ie, hand-editing).

13. In Notepad, search for: <spans text="

The value(s) within the double quotes should be your text strings.
Collect them and copy to your EM.

[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski]

Pretty cubersome but I’ll give it a try. Thanks!

[Tyson Onaga]

As there is no API to the Sony Text objects, a “workaround” is the best you can do. I’d make a test .veg with 2 or 3 PTT objects. Run through the steps above and see if you find the 2 or 3 “span” statements with your text strings.

If so, then the next step would be to write a Word macro (in VB) that would start at step 6 and automate the rest. You would use Word to find the
<spans text=
statement, then
– copy the text string
– add it (eg) a second Word document
– find the next spans statement (or stop)

When the macro is executed, you’d have a document with just the text strings … which should be your PTT text strings.