[Jeremy Ashinghurst]

I know this is a dead thread but today I had the same problem, about 50 clips that I wanted to randomize and I didn’t feel like installing a software pack to get this one thing done so . . . I wrote a script for it. I’ve never scripted in C# before so I’m sure it’s pretty ugly, but it gets the job done. it randomizes all the media events in a track by moving a random event to the current end of the track (but will not move linked audio and video tracks simultaneously). Of course i in no way gaurantee this script and recommend you duplicate the track you want to randomize prior to performing this script just to be safe.


//*******************************************************************
//* Program: Random Order
//* Author: Jeremy Ashinghurst
//* Updated: Feb 27 2011
//* Description: randomly order clips from a selected track. clips will be successively placed at the end of the same track they are from. All clips from that track will be moved!
//*------------------------------------------------------------------
//* Copyright: none
//*******************************************************************
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Sony.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
{
try
{
Track track = FindSelectedTrack(vegas);
if (track != null)
{
if (track.Events.Count > 1)
{
Random RandomNumber = new Random();
for (int x = track.Events.Count;x>0; x--)
{
int r = RandomNumber.Next(x);
foreach(TrackEvent trackEvent in track.Events)
{
if (trackEvent.Index == r)
{
Timecode cliplength = trackEvent.Length;
trackEvent.AdjustStartLength(track.Length,cliplength,false);
}
}
}

}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Track must have at least 2 events", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("You must select a track before running this script", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message, "Critical Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Stop);
}
}

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