Is there a way to offset media?

Maestro wrote on 7/4/2005, 11:13 AM
Here's a typical scenario for me: I have a GY-DV5000 that records to both firewire drive and tape. The thing is, when I start recording, the harddrive starts capturing about a second before the tape. Having the hard drive means I don't have to capture the tape--it's just a direct transfer to the computer which is a real time saver. I lay out all my edited events for that media, of which there might be 300. Render the timeline, and call it done. Delete the raw harddrive media. WHOOPS--missed something in the edited version that needs to be changed. But no worries, I have the tape. Capture the tape, and now everything on my timeline is off by a second due to the lag of the tape.

It would be really nice if I could tell Vegas that the raw media is to be offset by some amount. I see that you can apply custom timecode, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Right now my only solution is to figure out the exact offset and re-render the entire raw media first, accounting for the offset with trimming or blank space at the beginning.

Is it possible to offset the raw media somehow?

Thanks,

-Brent

Comments

jetdv wrote on 7/4/2005, 12:41 PM
You should be able to do this via scripts. In fact, here's one I wrote earlier this year that appears to do exactly what you want:

AdjustOffset.js
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 7/4/2005, 12:50 PM
Brent, have read the post a few times to see what is happening.

If the clips are just cuts all along the time line, does the extra second make any difference apart from adding 300seconds to the finished video?

If you have used the clips from the FW drive at the start of the clip then the tape clip will never fit over the clip as it will be missing a second from the front, so having an offset will not solve the problem.

I think the answer is to trim 1 second off the front of all clips from the FW drive, then they will fit the tape clips, perhaps a script could do that.
Maestro wrote on 7/4/2005, 2:06 PM
>>If the clips are just cuts all along the time line, does the extra second make any difference apart from adding 300seconds to the finished video?<<

In this case, yes. It's a two-camera live performance. One camera only ran tape and mine did both. During the first edit, I naturally had to sync the two cameras based on the FW video. Once the tape off my camera was captured, all of my events were now once second out of sync. It would be easy enough to slip one event the required second, but not all 300.

Thanks jetdv, I'll take a look at your script.

-Brent
musicvid10 wrote on 12/18/2012, 10:50 AM
jetdv,
Can this script work in Vegas 8.0c?
Can you give some directions?
I really need this for slipping all events in a holiday video.
Rendering the replacement media would take days.
Many thanks.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/18/2012, 11:45 AM
Woohoo!
Got it working.
Edward saved Christmas!
Barry W. Hull wrote on 12/18/2012, 11:50 AM
Wow, this thread has had a LONG shelf life.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/18/2012, 11:55 AM
Yes, and it underscores the value of the forum search.
I was under a deadline for Christmas, but no more. It'll be done tonight.
riredale wrote on 12/18/2012, 12:05 PM
Wow, seven years lying dormant. Could be a record?
jetdv wrote on 12/18/2012, 3:01 PM
Wow, that's an old one. Glad you found it and it does what you need.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/18/2012, 4:00 PM
Just think of it as having given me a deferred holiday gift, seven years ago.
;?)