Simple “Split” Script

[Gary Kleiner]

What would it do that the s key doesn’t, or are you trying to avoid touching your keyboard?

Gary Kleiner

[Fred Paskiewicz]

That’s it — a preference. I’d rather click a script on the toolbar above the timeline.

Fred

[Edward Troxel]

Run the Select Events tool in Excalibur 4 or Tsunami 1. Choose either all events before the cursor or all events after the cursor (your choice will be selected upon completion). Then make sure the “Split at Cursor Location” is checked. All events will be split at the cursor location.

I tested using the “selection area” but it resulted in an error becuase the selection area had no length.

Edward Troxel

[Fred Paskiewicz]

Or I could go to Edit/Split. Trying to get it to one click and above the timeline. Isn’t this possible?

Fred

[Edward Troxel]

You CAN do it with one click in Excalibur. Just set your defaults as I’ve stated and add the “Select Events” individual tool to the toolbar. One click and you’re done. You’ll never even see a screen appear – all you know is that the events are split and the specified items are selected (i.e. all right of cursor or all left of cursor)

Edward Troxel

[Fred Paskiewicz]

So I need Excalibur or Tsunami — is that the only way this can be done?

Fred

[Edward Troxel]

No, it’s not the only way it could be done. Personally, I just press “S”. Alternately, you could write a script that does this. I was just looking at options that were already written instead of sitting down to write a NEW script specifically for this function.

Just for you, though, take a look at this script I just created:
https://www.jetdv.com/scripts/SplitEvents.js

It will also UNGROUP them for you so you’ll need to regroup as needed.

Edward Troxel

[Fred Paskiewicz]

Very kind of you — I do appreciate it. I do a lot of “splitting” and it would save a lot of “clicks” at the end of the day. But I was hoping it would act exactly like the “S” key and not split the audio. Just tell me when to quit…

Thanks,
Fred

[Edward Troxel]

The “S” key DOES split the audio.

Do you have Ignore Event Grouping turned on? Exactly how are you splitting? This script will simply split EVERYTHING at the cursor location. Having it not do audio is simply a matter of telling it to ignore audio tracks. A very simple change.

From:

SplitEvents(track, Vegas.Cursor);

To:

If (track.IsVideo())
SplitEvents(track, Vegas.Cursor);

Edward Troxel

[Fred Paskiewicz]

What I get is, yes the “S” key cuts according to the event grouping. Video only when Ignore Event Group is selected. The script cuts both Video and Audio regardless.

Fred