Need solution for selecting multiple events with 1 click

[Aleksey Tarasov]

Also take a look at Keep Inside Regions option of Markers tool in Vegasaur.
You create regions that you want to keep and with one click you delete all unnecessary parts.

[Steve Larson]

Ok, I tried the DLL and it works! Thank you.

Did you see my other issue?

Lets say I assign the key “b” to run the script. So then it selects all of the tracks under the cursor when I hit “b”. Then I need to go to the next set of clips and select those as well, adding to the original selection, but in order to add more selections, you have to use the control key. So now if I hold down control and hit the letter “b” ….the script won’t recognize that command.

Is there anyway to solve this?

[Steve Larson]

Hi, thanks for the response. I did try this option but it requires 2 clicks to select each section. This might sound silly, but in each of my projects this would amount to hundreds of extra clicks ..and I’m doing 4 projects a week. So I’m trying to find a way to really cut down on the clicks.

[Wayne Waag]

Unless I’m not understanding what you want, just run the script SelectEventsFromCursor which select all events under the cursor and to the left.

wwaag

[Steve Larson]

The problem is, the sections I would like to select have areas in between that I do not want to select.

If you reference the image below, this is what I want to accomplish.

However, I would need to hold the Ctrl button which cancels out the hotkey to select all events above the cursor.

Maybe a solution would be to make the script work in such a way that, as soon as I click an event with the mouse, it automatically selects everything above and below the event that I clicked.
Then, holding Ctrl, I can move over to the next section of events that I want, simply click an event and it selects everything above and below it. This way, I can add up selected events with one simple mouse click each time.

This option would need to be toggled on and off, instead of having to use a hotkey every time I want to make a selection.
In a sense, the left mouse click becomes the hotkey.

Do you think this is possible to script?

Thanks

[Wayne Waag]

Hi Steve,

Hopefully, this will work for you. It involves 2 steps. First you need to place a marker anywhere within the event that you want selected. You can fast forward and simply hit the M button for any event you want to select. The screen will then look like this.

Then run the script “SelectEventsWithMarker” (which you can find at the same DB address) and the screen will look like this.

If you copy the selected events and then paste somewhere else, you will have the same spaces between events. Since you have Vegasaur (great toolset), simply select the 3 tracks and run the 1-click command–Close Gaps (selected tracks). You can also use their Markers dialog to delete the original markers.

wwaag

[Steve Larson]

Hi Wayne,

I wanted to thank you for all of your help. I used the marker technique ..and boom.. it’s awesome. As I’m editing..I just add the markers between each slice that I want ..and then at the end of the project ..I hotkey select all of the events under the markers ..and paste them ..and use the vegasaur close gap funtion. It works beautifully. Thank you so much!!

And thanks to everyone else that helped.

Quick Stat:

I calculated that using the technique I’ve used for the past 3 years ..I’ve clicked the mouse atleast 250,000 times to make my selections. At an average of .5 second per click ..that’s 34 hours of clicking. With your technique ..it would be 83,000 clicks …about 11 hours.

Steve

[Wayne Waag]

Hi Steve,

Glad that it’s of use to you. I’ve used it many times in the past.

Another super-simple script that you might be interested in is what I call “Add Marker”. Right now, you enter M and the name box pops up which you have to close unless you want to add a title. AddMarker does just that–adds a marker and no pop up text box. If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll upload it.

wwaag

[Steve Larson]

Hi Wayne,

As you can see in this thread, you created a script that selects any event under a marker. I’ve been using it practically every single day since you’ve created it and it’s saved me countless hours.

I’ve been using vegas 12 and it works perfectly. However, I’d love to switch to vegas 15 and I tried the DLL and it didn’t work. Would you know how to fix this?

Thank you so much,
Steve

[Philippe Gaudens]

Hello,

Why don’t you simply use the “Group” function ?

First, be sure the following option is enabled:

Then choose the Selection Edit Tool

Drag your selection over the slices you want, the press G to group the slices… Grouped events will be able to be modified, copied, pasted at the same time…

Best regards,
Philippe.