[Edward Troxel]

NewBlue has a split screen effect.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

check the “Split Screen” button above the preview screen and turn it OFF

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[Edward Troxel]

In the Voice Over tool in Excalibur, I added the ability to use the “Blue Cat Peak Meter” tool to generate an envelope showing the volume levels and used that to determine “silent” areas to raise a music bed in those areas. It appears that effect is still available but is 32-bit only.

https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_DPeakMeter/

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[Edward Troxel]

That’s a file used by your video driver. Try updating your video driver.

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[Edward Troxel]

You should use the new “Titles and Text” OFX generator and you can adjust the text direct from your script.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

You might try making it a “sub clip” and the add the subclip as a take.

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[Edward Troxel]

The cursor position should have no bearing on these two lines:

myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart = myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart – new Timecode(“00:00:15:00”);
myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength = myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength + new Timecode(“00:00:30:00”);

They do not reference the cursor position at all. They only look at the current selection area and adjust it to start 15 seconds earlier and be 30 seconds in length.

These two lines do reference the cursor position:

myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart = myVegas.Transport.CursorPosition – new Timecode(“00:00:15:00”);
myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength = new Timecode(“00:00:30:00”);

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[Edward Troxel]

My guess is that it’s hidden under the “start” bar. Either change the resolution temporarily and locate it and move it back or hide the start bar.

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[Edward Troxel]

Looks to me like it’s 15 sec before or after a marker or cut. Just put the cursor on the marker or cut and the script will work fine.

automatically pre-selects a chunk of the timeline say 15s before and after where the marker or cut is placed?

Edward Troxel

Expanding a selection area by 15 sec on each end would be very similar:

myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength = myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength + new Timecode(“00:00:30:00”);
myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart = myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart – new Timecode(“00:00:15:00”);

[Edward Troxel]

With the cursor in the “marker” position, all you need is the following:

myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart = myVegas.Transport.CursorPosition – new Timecode(“00:00:15:00”);
myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength = new Timecode(“00:00:30:00”);

That start a selection area 15 seconds before the cursor and then create a selection area for a length of 30 seconds. Naturally, it will need to be wrapped in the code to make it a full script. Just copy the text below and save it in a file name “CreateSelectionArea.cs”

//
// Create Selection Area 30 seconds around cursor
//
// By Edward Troxel – March 12, 2016

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using Sony.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
Vegas myVegas;

public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
{
myVegas = vegas;

myVegas.Transport.SelectionStart = myVegas.Transport.CursorPosition – new Timecode(“00:00:15:00”);
myVegas.Transport.SelectionLength = new Timecode(“00:00:30:00”);

}

}

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