swapping events?

[John Rofrano]

[Gilles Gagnon] “i.e. select 2 events, hit a magic key combo and have them swapped?”

VASST Ultimate S Pro 4 does this and many other “magic” combos. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Mike Kujbida]

John, you obviously forgot about this script you wrote a “few” years ago 🙂

/**
* Program: SwapEvents.js
* Description: This script will swap the location of the firt two selected
* events that it finds.
*
* Author: Johnny (Roy) Rofrano john_rofrano at hotmail.com
*
* Date: April 25, 2004 – Initial release
*
**/
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;

try
{
var firstEvent : TrackEvent = null;
var secondEvent : TrackEvent = null;
var swapStart : Timecode = new Timecode(0);

// step through all events looking for first two
for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
for (var evnt in track.Events)
{
if (evnt.Selected && firstEvent == null)
{
firstEvent = evnt;
continue;
}
if (evnt.Selected && secondEvent == null)
{
secondEvent = evnt;
break;
}
}
if (firstEvent != null && secondEvent != null)
{
break;
}
}
// Swap the start times
if (firstEvent == null || secondEvent == null)
{
throw “Two selected events could not be found.”;
}

// If they are on the same track just swap the start times
if (firstEvent.Track.Index == secondEvent.Track.Index)
{
swapStart = secondEvent.Start
secondEvent.Start = firstEvent.Start;
firstEvent.Start = swapStart;
}
else
{
// make a copy to the new track location
firstEvent.Copy(secondEvent.Track, secondEvent.Start);
secondEvent.Copy(firstEvent.Track, firstEvent.Start);
// remove the old events from their tracks
firstEvent.Track.Events.Remove(firstEvent);
secondEvent.Track.Events.Remove(secondEvent);
}
}
catch (errorMsg)
{
MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, “Swap Events – Error”, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hey John,

I just purchased US4 last week! where is the bugger hiding? I’m still learning the interface. PS. I used the photo montage today :).

Gilles

[Aleksey Tarasov]

Select first event and drag’n’drop it to the second one with the right mouse button. In the opened menu choose Shuffle.
There is no key combination.

[Danny Hays]

You can right click on the file you want to replace in the project media tab and select replace, select file to replace it. If you have alot of files and are not sure which file it is in the project media tab, right click on it in the timeline and click “select in project media list” It will highlight in the list. Hope this helps, Danny Hays

[Gilles Gagnon]

Lovely!
Thanks!

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Handy trick Danny…. Thanks!

Gilles

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Kujbida] “John, you obviously forgot about this script you wrote a “few” years ago :-)”

You know… my memory isn’t what it use to be. 2004 seems like such a long time ago! That’ll work too. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[John Rofrano]

[Gilles Gagnon] “I just purchased US4 last week! where is the bugger hiding? I’m still learning the interface. PS. I used the photo montage today :).”

Look on the Edit Tools tab on the right side in the Adjust Events section under Selected Events is Swap Events and Send Selected Events to End.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Mike Kujbida]

[John Rofrano] “You know… my memory isn’t what it use to be.”

Neither is mine.
I’d love to be able to walk into a store and buy a few more gigs of it 🙂