Timeline Tools provides a set of editing features that makes working with Vegas Events, Media, Markers, Envelopes, Points, Plug-Ins and Groups a snap. This package is stuffed with many hard-to-find scripting features that Vegas users could spend hours searching for. The program is especially useful if you are creating video slideshows that contain 1000 or more still images. Timeline Tools has been
tested and works with both 32 and 64 bit Sony Vegas Pro versions 8.0 and greater. Timeline Tools is a utility that, for the most part, works with open Vegas Projects. If a project isn't open, or you are working with Media but have not yet saved it to a Project, most of the programs features are disabled. This is also the case while Vegas is opening up a large Project. Once loaded, all the features are enabled and the main Event display Table will be filled with information about Events on the selected Track. Briefly, Timeline Tools is a Vegas Command Extension like Excalibur, Vegasaur and Ultimate S. This means you start the program and dock its window in the same spaces occupied by other built-in Vegas windows such as the Project Explorer and Project Media windows. Timeline Tools displays information about your Vegas Project and lets you manipulate Events, Markers, Regions, Points, and FX & Transition PlugIns. Timeline Tools lets you:
• You can Move one or more Events around on the Timeline while maintaining their Overlap & Fade settings in the new location.
• You can Reverse the positions of a selected group of Events on the Timeline.
• You can have Timeline Tools perform an AutoSave action that saves a running series of your Project .Veg files.
• You can configure external Media editing tools.
• You can search for timeline Media by name.
• Look for multiple references to the same Media file.
• Display Events in the Timeline that are missing their associated Media files.
• Display only Generated Media such as Text Events.
• You can also search for gaps in your Events based on a user specified gap width.
• Timeline Tools can automatically remove or add gaps to targeted Events, and remove or add overlap between Events. If you are adding overlap, you can also specify the overlap fade curve type.
• You can remove or add Video FX PlugIns and Transitions to one or more Events or Media files or add Random transitions to Events.
• You can Remove Pan / Crop, Rotation and Aspect Ratio, among many other settings to a group of targeted Events.
• You can automatically add Markers to all of your Events, and export your Marker positions to a text file.
• The program also lets you move, or adjust the value of one or more Envelope Points with a single mouse click. You can filter the list of points to find specific points on the timeline.
• And you can get a quick overview of all of the current project Event groupings.
• The program also lets you save a set of comments or notes that are stored in a Rich Text Format file in your Vegas Project subdirectory.
• All of the changes that Timeline Tools makes to your Vegas project, are completely reversible using the built-in Sony Vegas Undo feature.
• Timeline Tools does all this and more. Part #1 of the training videos is located at:
https://youtu.be/1RaPWQyFqfg
