[Edward Troxel]

View – Waveforms and Frames

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[Edward Troxel]

[Marcus Lovitt] “Actually what I was really hoping for is some kind of right-click solution”

Guess you could always use the “Unsplit” tool in Excalibur!

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[Edward Troxel]

Delete the event to the right of the unwanted split and then fill up the hole with the event to the left of the unwanted split.

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[Edward Troxel]

Yes. Use a script. Excalibur and Ultimate S can both handle this easily. You do need a Pro version of Vegas for scripts, though (i.e. not a “Movie Studio” version).

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[Edward Troxel]

There’s a volume slider on the track header and you can also add a volume envelope to increase volume. Another option would be to “normalize”. Just note that NOISE will be raised as much as the good stuff.

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[John Stevens] “And how about to simply enable importing that handy textfile that can be created with “export regions as subtitles”, and paste them as pngs. (This is an option in Excalibur, but this apparently does not allow transparency of text background, nor spreading the subtitles on two lines or even automatically wrap long sentences. A setting with X lines maximum would be handy. I imagine this functionality to be included in future versions of Excalibur though.)”

Actually, Excalibur’s Quick Lables DOES allow transparency of the text background. That’s one of the options on the screen. You are correct that it does not currently break long strings of text up into multiple lines, though.

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[Edward Troxel]

Apply your color correction to the clips in the Project Media tab instead. Then it will apply to that clip no matter where it’s used on the timeline and you won’t need to go through all the steps you’re trying to do.

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[Edward Troxel]

Basically, you would need to take this section:

while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
var ev = eventEnum.item();

ev.FadeIn.Curve = CurveType.Slow
if (bRandom) {
num = int(Math.random() * totalTrans + 1);
if (num > 23) {
num = totalTrans - 1;
}
plugIn = Vegas.Transitions.GetChild(int(num));
}

var startTime = ev.Start.ToMilliseconds();
var length = ev.Length.ToMilliseconds();

startTime = ev.Start - startoffset;
if (startTime.ToMilliseconds() < 0) {
startTime = new Timecode("00:00:00:00");
startoffset = startoffset - overlapTime;
}

var currTake = ev.ActiveTake;
var currOffset = currTake.Offset;
ev.Start = startTime;
currTake.Offset = currOffset;

Vegas.UpdateUI();

if(ev.MediaType == MediaType.Video && !bFade) {
fx = new Effect(plugIn);
ev.FadeIn.Transition = fx;
}

eventEnum.moveNext();
startoffset = startoffset + overlapTime;
}

and add the code to ONLY affect selected events such as:

while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
var ev = eventEnum.item();

if (ev.Selected) {

ev.FadeIn.Curve = CurveType.Slow
if (bRandom) {
num = int(Math.random() * totalTrans + 1);
if (num > 23) {
num = totalTrans - 1;
}
plugIn = Vegas.Transitions.GetChild(int(num));
}

var startTime = ev.Start.ToMilliseconds();
var length = ev.Length.ToMilliseconds();

startTime = ev.Start - startoffset;
if (startTime.ToMilliseconds() < 0) {
startTime = new Timecode("00:00:00:00");
startoffset = startoffset - overlapTime;
}

var currTake = ev.ActiveTake;
var currOffset = currTake.Offset;
ev.Start = startTime;
currTake.Offset = currOffset;

Vegas.UpdateUI();

if(ev.MediaType == MediaType.Video && !bFade) {
fx = new Effect(plugIn);
ev.FadeIn.Transition = fx;
}

eventEnum.moveNext();
startoffset = startoffset + overlapTime;
}
}

To be honest, you’d probably be better off by ONLY letting it affect a selected TRACK instead. To do that, you would but this around the highlighted code above:

if (tr.Selected) {

(put the While (!trackEnum.atEnd... loop listed above here)

}

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[Dave Gaham] “I am having the same problem where I have a video track to only use for Picture-in-Picture and each time I place a new Picture-in-Picture in the video track in a different spot all the others move to the same area which I definitely don’t want”

You MUST create new keyframes instead of adjusting the first keyframe. On the timeline at the bottom of the Track Motion window, add new keyframes on that timeline.

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[Edward Troxel]

Is this from a camera that records to DVD? If yes, just use the File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc option to import the footage and you will get audio as well.

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