[Apostleofzion]

hi edward ,
In that newsletter you have mentioned a file called Interop.VegasCOM.DLL which would be found in the Vegas 6.0 folder. But I’m using Vegas 7 , i couldn’t find that file in Vegas 7 folder .Although i was able to add reference for the Sony.Vegas.dll in VS 2005 C# through the project properties.
And you have given the link for the project file . I assume that project was done in VS “2003” .But i when i opened in VS 2005 , it converted the project . and gave two missing refernces out which the one mentioned in the top is not found. the other one ” Sony.Vegas.dll “was found and i added it .
so i deleted the other reference and it works.
Thanks for the article edward.Hope this clarifies any doubts regarding using VS2005 for vegas.

[Apostleofzion]

thanks again for the support .

I will elaborate the whole process.

Bascially after the lines are converted to pngs(white colored text). i manually place them (line events)in the time line as they sync with the audio of the singer.

after the placement, i create a new video layer below the text layer.
In that i put a red band (png) to fill the entire subtitle part of the video. then i make this child of the text. i change the composite mode of the text track to be mask. so now i get the red color( of the band)text instead of the white text.(Masking)

So for first line i open the pan/crop window of the red band event and change the events x-position so the masked band moves and changes the color.(actually the same text layer i create a duplicate and i put it in layer below the redband layer, with white color , therefore after this red line erases the white one shows up ). then before the next line i move the x-position of the red band back to the original position so it is ready for the next line.

so the script should create keyframes for the redband in x-position nad this key frame creation should be based on the events time position on the parent layer.

any other way to improvise the process mentioned above, also tell.

maybe i can send a screenshot to u edward ? or mail me at
arvind(at)bookbox.com

[Apostleofzion]

thanks a lot friend.It works.

[Apostleofzion]

thanks jeditdv and mike.

sorry mike i missed in the other forum. Bascially i’m creating subtitles for songs .but the subtitles change color from red to white as with the audio.for a 6 min song we have 60 lines with 4 words each.

so i created the pngs for the 60 lines with 4 words with photoshop cs2 javascripting.

The main reason i chose vegas was for scripting . i found media generation in vegas doesn’t support scripting . (from edward on his forum).

But mike the workflow u mentioned , is it possible to script them (excluding media generation)?

thanks again .