shortcut key for selecting clip above or below current clip on timeline?

[Tyson Onaga]

Don’t think so. You’d probably need two scripts to do this, one for selecting the Event above, one for the Event below. I assume “above” means the Track immediately above the Track that has the currently selected Event.

You would select a single Event and probably invoke the desired script with a hotkey. You can bind a hotkey to a script via Options.Customize Keyboard; look under the “Script.*” section.

Options.Customize Keyboard, Script.* items should be identical to Tools.Scripting, “list of scripts”.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Tyson.

Gilles

[Tyson Onaga]

Here is a very rudimentary script (Track_eventSelectAbove.cs):

public void FromVegas( Vegas vegasApp )
{
try
{
int nTrack = 0;

// For all tracks in the Project ...
foreach ( Track track in vegasApp.Project.Tracks )
{
if ( !track.Selected )
{
nTrack++;
continue;
}

// For all Events on the "track" ...
foreach ( VideoEvent videoEvent in track.Events )
{
if ( !videoEvent.Selected )
continue;

// Get the Timecode for the selected Event ...
Timecode tcStart = videoEvent.Start;
Timecode tcLength = videoEvent.Length;

ShowMessage(
"Track_eventSelectAbove.cs",
"Track Selected: " + track.Name + "\n\n" +
"Event Timecode: " + tcStartMS.ToString() + "\n\n" +
""
);

// Topmost track? [CHANGE_HERE.A]
if ( nTrack == 0 )
ShowMessage( "Track_eventSelectAbove.cs", "No track above!" );
else
{
// Get the Track above ... [CHANGE_HERE.B]
Track trackAbove = vegasApp.Project.Tracks[ nTrack - 1 ];
ShowMessage(
"Track_eventSelectAbove.cs",
"Track Selected: " + track.Name + "\n\n" +
"Event Timecode: " + tcStartMS.ToString() + "\n\n" +
"Track Above: " + trackAbove.Name + "\n\n" +
""
);

// Find the Event on trackAbove that starts at tcStart ...
foreach ( VideoEvent videoEventAbove in trackAbove.Events )
{
Timecode tcStartAbove = videoEventAbove.Start;
Timecode tcLengthAbove = videoEventAbove.Length;

// Toggle Selected only on EXACT starting times! [CHANGE_HERE.C]
if ( tcStart == tcStartAbove )
{
videoEventAbove.Selected = true;
break;
}
}
}
} // foreach

nTrack++;
} // foreach
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message, "Unexpected Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Stop);
}
} // FromVegas()

private void ShowMessage( string msgTitle, string msgBody )
{
MessageBox.Show( msgBody, msgTitle, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information );
} // ShowMessage()


Note:
a. This only handles the Track above case. To handle the Track below case, you would need to

a.1 Create a duplicate script (different .cs name)

a.2 Change [CHANGE_HERE.A] to
if ( nTrack == vegasApp.Project.Tracks.Count – 1 )

a.3 Change [CHANGE_HERE.B] to
Track trackAbove = vegasApp.Project.Tracks[ nTrack + 1 ];

a.4 Change the variables names (eg, trackAbove to trackBelow)

b. This will select an “above” Event ONLY if it has the EXACT same start time as the Selected Event. If you need more flexibility (ie, overlapping Events), then you need to change the expression in [CHANGE_HERE.C]
if ( tcStart == tcStartAbove )
to use the values in tcLength and tcLengthAbove.

c. Comment out or remove the ShowMessage() debug statements when done.

[Stephen Mann]

“Is there such a thing?”
No, because there are no clips on the timeline – only events.

The Vegasaur tool (reasonably priced and indispensable here) has an event selector, but I’ve never used it. I just point and click.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks a bunch Tyson. Quite the code.

Thanks for the input Stephen. I’ll also check out the Vegasaur tool. I do have Vaast Ultimate, which I use every now and then.

Gilles