looking for a script – import mediasite export into Vegas.

[Taylor Calderone]

Hmm.. well, I have no idea about how Vegas works differently between versions so I can’t use that route to fix this. I think it’s also safe to assume that the script is running properly since you are getting it to give you a browser window, and to create a track. We just need to figure out why the important second half of the script is not getting triggered.

Everything in those screenshots looks correct (aka, exactly the same as what my successfully imported mediasite folders look like). Can you post the contents of ‘MediasitePresentation_60.xml’? Preferably to Pastebin or something so that it doesn’t wreck the layout of this forum 🙂

Oh also, did you first extract the mediasite presentation from the ZIP file it gives you? That might cause the script not to work as well.

[Jeff Cremeen]

below is the the xml file…

https://pastebin.com/3uT3d1Gg

https://pastebin.com/3uT3d1Gg

[Jeff Cremeen]

I am working with the extracted (unzipped) files derived from the publish to go download.

[Taylor Calderone]

The xml file looks fine. OK… maybe something got broken in the copy/paste process somehow. Here’s a link to my copy of the script, delete the .js file you have now and see if this version works instead.

https://mega.co.nz/#!25xDSLyD!6mmnlYBNxcDdqeVfBh7S3Hf7Mwq-NTeO01S-GArhuzA

Edit – ACTUALLY.. looking over your repaste of the script, there is an essential piece missing in the part where it reads the XML file. So I think this may be what gets it working :O

[Jeff Cremeen]

look at that!

It works!

Thanks!

How tough would it be to have it also import the mp4 file as well on another track? So both are lined up? With the mp4 track lined up in a pic in pic arrangement? (very small lower right)

I am trying to automate as much of the process as possible since the guy that currently makes the downloadable version doesn’t know vegas and he could be up and running with minimal training…

I am going to test it with another file where I see the slides in the video framing to compare accuracy.

Jeff

[Taylor Calderone]

Yay!

It’s most likely possible to bring in the .mp4 file as well, and to set them up in a side-by-side arrangement, but I’m not going to add that, sorry :). Reason being: it would double the size of the script and take me another week to code, and it would only automate about 2 minutes real-time work (compared to the hours saved by importing the jpg slideshow). In addition, all the work I do after I run the script is unique editing based on various aspects of each project: cropping randomly sized black bars, sizing the picture-in-picture optimally based on camera angles, etc. And you can’t automate something that has to be unique each time.

[Jeff Cremeen]

Well, thanks again. This is going to save the mp4 guy a ton of time. We are hoping that Mediasite will come out with an automatic server system that doesn’t cost thousand of dollars. But this is a better work around than the screen capture thing that they have been doing.

Jeff