[Wayne Waag]

“If someone else has a better way, I would be happy to know about it.”

Not necessarily better, but certainly easier. Here’s a demo of a very simple Happy Otter free tool that does this.

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It can be freely downloaded at https://tools4vegas.com/library/

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[Wayne Waag]

All script extensions in the HOS Free Tools library have now been recompiled for Sony versions of Vegas. Both the Magix and Sony versions are now included in the same download file as well as a tool icon.

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[Wayne Waag]

Since I haven’t had any specific requests for Sony versions, converting those scripts has more or less been “on the back burner” of things to do. I’ll try to update them in the coming week.

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[Wayne Waag]

Hi Chris,

In all honesty, I have no idea. In fact, I’m not sure if I even have a copy of that original script any more. As you may or may not be aware, I’ve been developing a set of tools, HappyOtterScripts, which includes RenderEvents as one of its main scripts. RE is just the newest version of that old REATT script. More information can be found at https://tools4vegas.com/. HOS is in the final stages of beta testing and I hope to start selling licenses next month. Here is a screen grab of the RE dialog.

In any case, if you upload that old script somewhere, I’ll be happy to try it in V12 on my Win10 system.

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[Wayne Waag]

Insert Freeze Frame is a script that inserts a freeze frame into a timeline event without use of Velocity Envelopes. Rather it creates a lossless PNG image, which is then inserted at the desired point. It now supports video with an alpha channel. The option to Auto Ripple now supports All Tracks, Markers, and Regions. Here is the dialog.

and a demo.

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It can be downloaded here. https://tools4vegas.com/library/

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[Wayne Waag]

New version 1.0.2.69 released. Change log may be found here. https://tools4vegas.com/wp-content/uploads/HappyOtter-Change-Log.pdf

New Tool
o ExternalApps—launches external applications including those requiring a media file as an argument such as photo and audio editors. Launch ColorCop and VirtualDub are now included within this tool.

New Features
o AudioTrim

• Now shares the same saved Vegas audio templates as RenderPlus
• Added after render options to Open Folder, and Play Media

o FileInfo—added MediaInfo as the default file info tool
o FrameFixer

New frames now saved in a sub-folder of the media file folder

Added FrameFixer media bin where new frames are added

o ImportAssist—added VirtualDub render templates for direct import of Webm files with alpha
o Preferences—provides for selected launch of either ThemeDesigner or ToolFileSetup

Bug Fixes
o ImportAssist-Folder import only worked for still images and not video files—fixed
o RenderPlus

• Crash when opening EncoderSettings dialog—fixed
• Long program audio (>4gb) support using wave 64 and fdk-aac now working correctly

o GPU encoding check results only worked correctly in RenderPlus–now fixed in all tools
o Lots of minor bug fixes and update to help files

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[Wayne Waag]

If you have lots of files to rename, you might try the MediaRenamer tool in HappyOtterScripts. Here is a screen grab. It permits the bulk renaming of files with quite a few renaming options.

At the moment, HOS is still in beta through mid-March. You can download a trial here. https://tools4vegas.com/

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[Wayne Waag]

Most likely–progressive. The best way is to use the free app MediaInfo. Here is an example of footage from a Panasonic FZ2500 showing the footage to be progressive.

You could also just drag the clip to the timeline and let Vegas set properties. You will see a dialog like this.

Of the two, use of MediaInfo is probably the most accurate.

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[Wayne Waag]

New version 1.0.2.68 released. Change log may be found here. https://tools4vegas.com/wp-content/uploads/HappyOtter-Change-Log.pdf

New Tool
o FxAssist – simple tool to help user manage effects in Vegas

Create and save sets of individual favorites and filter chains that can be applied to events, media, tracks, or output buses
Actions include adding, replacing, removing, enabling, bypassing and searching for individual Fx and filter chains
Insert at index allows user to add filter to an existing filter chain at a specific position
Easily select track and events for applying Fx

New Features

o RenderPlus

Specific option added to include alpha channel during render
Added Apple Animation and Motion-PNG codecs for alpha channel support
Added support for Wave64 long program renders including use of FDK-AAC encoder

o RenderEvents – additional alpha channel rendering support
o Select Regions-option to render only selected regions added to Render+, RenderEvents, AudioTrim, AviDub, and DeshakerRedux. In Loop regions render option added to RenderEvents.
o AudioTrim – added By Tracks option which allows the loop region, regions or project to be rendered for selected tracks. Also enables choice of Fx to bypass/enable for such renders.
o ImportAssist

Added support for import of Webm media with alpha—can be imported into Vegas as lossless PNG’s or rendered to a lossless file
Added Apple Animation codec to import render options

Bug Fixes

o Deshaker-Redux

Non English filenames caused crash when using turbo option—fixed
Reworked dialog logic to ensure compatibility between main UI and Advanced Options UI

o Setup—failed when registry entries from previous Vegas versions not removed—fixed
o AviDub–Virtualdub scripts with frame rate changes not working–fixed
o GPU Check—failed to show VCE encoding available with new render app–fixed

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[Wayne Waag]

Unfortunately, Vegas templates are quite limited in that most codecs require an individual template for each frame size/frame rate combination and as you’ve discovered some combinations are not supported. One alternative is Happy Otter Scripts at https://tools4vegas.com/. Here is a screengrab of a 2160 x 3840 render from just a still image since I don’t have such video footage.

You can see that the project settings and resulting render settings agree. Render settings are always the same as your project settings so there is no need for a unique template for each combination. Also, HOS uses the open source x264 encoder, arguably better than the built-in encoders. HOS is still in beta. You could also try Voukoder which also uses the x264 encoder which should be able to do the same thing.

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