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Sony Vegas Scripting – Can’t Manage a Take. Error – Invalid Take Object

Posted by Naki Adil on February 14, 2019 at 3:03 am

I want to add media from the media pool to the first track of the project that I create first. For that, I need to create a Take Object and add the media stream to it. The stream is created successfully. But there is an issue with the take that I can’t understand yet. Here is the code:

//Adding video to the media pool
Vegas.OpenFileDialog(“C:\\Users\\sekhfa\\Desktop\\vidoes”, “true”);

//adding a video track to the project so i can add that the first stream of the video I added to the media pool
var videotrack = new VideoTrack(0, “videoStream”);

Vegas.Project.Tracks.Add(videotrack);

//I get the stream from the media I added to the media pool
var poolEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.MediaPool);

var media = poolEnum.item();

var stream = media.Streams[0];

//I create a take from the stream
var take = Take.CreateInstance(Project.ActiveProject, stream);

MessageBox.Show(take.Name);

I get this error: Invalid Take Object

what I want eventually is to add that take to the videoevent of the video track i created.

Edward Troxel replied 7 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Edward Troxel
February 14, 2019 at 6:48 pm

Try something more like this:

var videotrack = new VideoTrack(0, “videoStream”);
Vegas.Project.Tracks.Add(videotrack);

//I get the stream from the media I added to the media pool
var poolEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.MediaPool);
var media = poolEnum.item();
var stream = media.Streams[0];

var newEvent = new VideoEvent(cursorTimecode, stream.Length);
videotrack.Events.Add(newEvent);
var take = new Take(stream);
newEvent.Takes.Add(take);

Edward Troxel
Naki Adil
February 14, 2019 at 10:08 pm

Thank you so much!! It worked like a charm. I forgot to create the VideoEvent.

When I add the video this way. The project resolution is not similar to the added video resolution.

I want to make a condition depending on the resolution of the video added to the video track.

I looked all over the API without finding it. Normally it’s under the stream properties (Its attributes).
Edward Troxel
February 15, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Are you saying you want the File – Properties to match the new event’s properties?

Here’s part of a script of mine that sets the File – Properties. Of course you would need to change everything after the “=” signs to point to the information in your new event.

//Set the Height and Width
myvegas.Project.Video.Height = Convert.ToInt32(txtHeight.Text);
myvegas.Project.Video.Width = Convert.ToInt32(txtWidth.Text);

//Set the Field Order
switch (cmbFieldOrder.SelectedIndex)
{
case 0:
myvegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = VideoFieldOrder.ProgressiveScan;
break;

case 1:
myvegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = VideoFieldOrder.UpperFieldFirst;
break;

case 2:
myvegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = VideoFieldOrder.LowerFieldFirst;
break;
}

//Set the PAR
myvegas.Project.Video.PixelAspectRatio = Convert.ToDouble(cmbPAR.SelectedItem.ToString().Substring(0,6));

//Set the Framerate
myvegas.Project.Video.FrameRate = Convert.ToDouble(cmbFrameRate.SelectedItem.ToString().Substring(0,6));

myvegas.UpdateUI();

Edward Troxel
Naki Adil
February 15, 2019 at 11:46 pm

You helped me a lot pointing me toward the properties of the video that are under The Project class. I didn’t see it.

ProjectVideoProperties Class is what I needed.

The problem was that when I added the video to the project it gets a 1080p resolution regardless of the video resolution.

I found this method that fixed the issue

Boolean MatchProjectSettingsWithMedia
(
Media media
)

Vegas.Project.Video.MatchProjectSettingsWithMedia(media);

Thank you so much for your help. It’s priceless 🙂
Edward Troxel
February 18, 2019 at 3:51 pm

Glad I could help.

Edward Troxel

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