Script – add images to track with position specified by a text file

[John Rofrano]

If you download the Vegas Script SDK and look in the VegasScriptFAQ.html file under 2.4: How do I add media to the timeline? you will find examples that show you everything you need to know. In particular it contains this method that will add an image to the timeline.

VideoEvent AddVideoEvent(Vegas vegas, String mediaFile, Timecode start, Timecode length)
{
     Media media = new Media(mediaFile);
     VideoTrack track = vegas.Project.AddVideoTrack();
     VideoEvent videoEvent = track.AddVideoEvent(start, length);
     Take take = videoEvent.AddTake(media.GetVideoStreamByIndex(0));
     return videoEvent;
}

All you need to do is add the code to read the csv or xml file.

~jr

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[Kay Lean]

Thanks for the prompt reply, John! Very useful resource. It answered quite a few questions that I had all in one place! Appreciate the help!

Can anyone point me to a script that reads data off .txt files. I’m not much of a coder (labview is all I do) but probably not a bad “tweaker” of scripts 🙂

thanks
kay

[Edward Troxel]

// Read the file and process it line by line.
string line;
System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader("myfile.txt");
while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
{
ProcessLine(line);
}

file.Close();


Edward Troxel

[Kay Lean]

Awesome! Thanks Edward. This is a great forum. Could not ask for more.

I’m off to figure this all out. See if I can dive in and get all this to work. If I can get it to work will post it for others to refine and use.

kay