“Paste (most) Event Attributes” ?

[Steve Rhoden]

Not that i know of. Pasting attributes will copy
over everything including pan/crops.

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[Phil Peacock]

Good point though Kelly.

[Steve Rhoden]

We cant have it all, can we….lol

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Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
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[Matt Carlson]

There is not a “native” way to paste only chosen attributes but I have been doing it with my extension for about two years now. My Black Tools extension has the following

1) A paste effects button that will only paste effects and leave all other attributes untouched
2) A paste chosen attributes button that will bring up all attributes of a copied event and let you choose
3) A transfer from left/right button that can be configured to transfer either pan-crop,effects,playback rate, or envelopes from the event left or right of a chosen event

Black Tools also has a floating button bar that you can put heavily used buttons anywhere on the screen you want (I usually set up a half minimized empty track and put it right on the timeline.)

If your current pasting dilemma is truly annoying you and you want to use Black Tools let me know.

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Matt–

Well, it isn’t “truly annoying”, but it’s annoying enough that I’d like to know more about Black Tools, yes thank you!

I just don’t like being forced to make aesthetic decisions in a particular order, especially with my fifty-something brain.

–Kelly

[Matt Carlson]

I should have asked before… what version of Vegas are you running? Black Tools requires at least Vegas 11.

Here it is.

8089_blacktoolsextension.zip

There is a brief description of what you need in the How To text in the zip file as well as installation instructions. One of the reasons I have not released Black Tools officially is that I never have time to create a full Users Manual. Although pushing buttons to do things is fairly straight forward feel free to bombard me with questions.

[Kelly Griffin]

I’m on SVP10, but I’ve downloaded your file and I’ll keep it handy for whenever I “break what ain’t broken”.

Thanks Matt!

–Kelly

[Russ Froze]

Well ain’t that nice. I think I’ll play with the macro idea n see what can be done with it. Then I will bombard you with questions if it’s all right. Thanks loads, Russ Froze

[Matt Carlson]

Bombard away! Actually you found the whole point of Black Tools in the Macros section. The question of “Is there a script for….?” is the reason I started Black Tools. Even though I can write scripts on my own I got tired of having to do so. I wanted to build a framework where a logical progression of editing tasks are just button pushes that could then be turned in to macros.

One point of explanation is required for Macros. The “Default” setting for parameters in the Macro list means that the macro will take whatever information is currently displayed by the Black Tools button inputs. Setting the parameters to specific data will, obviously, use that information instead.

If you want I can send you a file of Macros I use that you can import if you need concrete examples.

[Russ Froze]

Hi and thanks, yes please send a file of macros so I have a staring point.
You wouldn’t per chance know python script would you?
Russ Froze