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fredfillis
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 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: Pre / Post Toggle? |
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Hi all,
My first post here after some reading. Great information, most of it over my head 
I'm very definitely a newb to scripting and vegas generally.
I've modified the Add B&W Effect to Selected Events to apply a Border preset and that works fine. What I really need though is to toggle the pre/post toggle when the effect is applied. Can anyone point me in the right direction? |
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Edward Troxel
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Absolutely. You need to add the last line here. The rest is added for your reference so you can get the variable names correct:
Effect effect = new Effect(plugIn);
videoEvent.Effects.Add(effect);
effect.Preset = presetName;
effect.ApplyBeforePanCrop = true; |
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fredfillis
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Edward,
Thanks very much for help and the quick response. 
I noticed after the script successfully completed that Vegas was sluggish and when I selected View->Project Media that Vegas would appear to lock-up.
Do I need to release or clear some stuff out of memory after importing at the start of the script? |
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Edward Troxel
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Running that script should not affect Vegas in any adverse way. The script should not cause any "sluggishness". All it does is add the effect and set the pre/post flag just like you would manually do so. |
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fredfillis
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Edward. Probably just windows.
I've used your B&W "free" script and modified according. I'm somewhat confused (situation normal) about the differences between that script and the code snippets you posted above.
The free script is full of stuff like
| Code: | var z59eba499bf=Vegas.VideoFX;
var z952c58c88c=z59eba499bf.GetChildByName(z2c9d3d09d6); |
Not exactly english. Is this just your preferred way of coding or do those esoteric variable names actually relate to something?
I figured out what I needed to change, but found it a struggle keeping track of what variable was what. Maybe I'm missing the point? |
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Edward Troxel
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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That particular script was "obfuscated" making it more difficult to read. As you can see, scripts are simply text files. And it's kind of hard to protect a text file. This was definitely more important with a product such as Excalibur. That particular script was written when I was testing ways to protect Excalibur. I just did some looking and found the "clear" version still on my hard drive:
| Code: | /**
* This script will add the B&W effect to all selected events.
*
* Written By: Edward Troxel
* Copyright 2004 - JETDV Scripts
* Modified: 10-01-2004
**/
import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;
try {
//Go through the list of Tracks
var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());
//Go through the list of Events
var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);
while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
var evnt : TrackEvent = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());
if (evnt.Selected) {
var ve : VideoEvent = VideoEvent(evnt);
var plugInName = "Sony Black and White";
var presetName = "100% Black and White";
var fx = Vegas.VideoFX;
var plugIn = fx.GetChildByName(plugInName);
var effect = new Effect(plugIn);
ve.Effects.Add(effect);
if (null != presetName) {
effect.Preset = presetName;
}
}
eventEnum.moveNext();
}
trackEnum.moveNext();
}
} catch (e) {
MessageBox.Show(e);
} |
This version should make MUCH more sense. |
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fredfillis
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Edward Troxel wrote: | That particular script was "obfuscated" making it more difficult to read.
This version should make MUCH more sense. |
Thanks again Edward. I suspected that was the case. And yes, MUCH easier |
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