Coding Vegas Plug-ins?

[Mark B.]

Where would a programmer find the SDK files needed to make plug-ins for Vegas Pro 9?

 

[jbeale]

The script SDK is available for download, http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/devkits

but the File I/O SDK and any others that may exist are available to a select few, and there is a NDA involved. That's all I know about it. I do know that someone from Sony Creative Software does (sometimes) monitor their own Sony Vegas forum, and they occasionally respond to questions posted there.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowTopics.asp?ForumID=4

 

[Mark B.]

The script SDK is available for download, http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/devkits

but the File I/O SDK and any others that may exist are available to a select few, and there is a NDA involved. That's all I know about it. I do know that someone from Sony Creative Software does (sometimes) monitor their own Sony Vegas forum, and they occasionally respond to questions posted there.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowTopics.asp?ForumID=4

Thanks! I'm trying to avoid NDA's for now. It looks like the scripting SDK will keep me plenty busy anyway.

 

[J Clark]

We need to buy or have written, a dead simple Vegas plug-in to hand over a working ELD to our FCP editor out of Vegas. I think Automatic Duck can handle it, but I'm not convinced it's going to work. It would also be great to pass on scale/pan data into the EDL in legible text for any Vegas reframing/scaling scenarios, or make it a separate plug-in so After Effects can read the info.

 

[donatello b]

from what i know there is NO EDL spec that has pan/crop data passed with it ...

from my experience passing Vegas info to FCP ( had a FCP editor on a project) and from our friend Stephanie project (editor used FCP ) they/we never found a way from Vegas to FCP or FCP to Vegas ...
you might find more in Vegas EDL to Avid and then Avid to FCP (using a 3rd party software) ?

sony use to have a hi end NLE ( can't remember the name ) they stopped selling it ..it could open Veg files correctly ..

 

[Keith Stark]

Another option might be to code something to the .XML export from Vegas. Pan/crop might be in that. Is pan/crop in the FCP EDL?

 

[Miguel "Macgregor" De Olaso]

More important than EDL (which allready works) is qt and r3d timecode reading.