matzed
25th January 2004, 19:21
Hi all,
I found a VERY useful feature in Scenarist, that is not really documented, and a very useful way of using it : the copy/paste function.
In any part of Scenarist (Data, Track editor or Scenario editor) you can select any object and copy/paste it or cut/paste it (Edit menu). You just have to select the same parent as the cutted/copied object before selecting paste command (CTRL+V), i.e. copy a PGC from a Title is to be pasted on another Title. Even the same parent is ok : Scenarist will increment the name of the objects copied so there are no conflicts.
This is useful. But the following is very cool. If you export a project to a script, you'll have something that can be understood and modified before reimporting it into scenarist. And if you copy (or cut) an object, and paste it into the notepad (or any text editor), you'll have the part of the script of this object :D !
You can then edit it, copy the modified text and paste that into scenarist !
Examples :
- You have 30 chapters to add in a track. You have the info in the chapter file generated by DoItF4U. Take the track. Add one scene. Cut the track. Paste it into notepad. Search the string "Scenes=List", look for the Scene you created. Copy from "Item=Scene" line to the last "}" before the next section (another Item=Scene or Recording Information(RECI)=Recording Information section etc.). Paste it 30 times before the next section (in fact before the last "}" of the "Scenes=List" section). Modify the "Name=" and the "Scene Time=" info accordingly to each scene. Copy the whole text. In scenarist select the "tracks" folder and paste ! See the result
- On Title_1, you have a PGC with 20 cells and you want to change the cell command of them. Cut the PGC, copy into notepad. Modify the script using the search/replace command of notepad ;) (ok, you'll have to know and understand how the scenarist scripts are working, but it's not to complicated), copy the modified text, select Title_1 icon in Scenarist, and paste !
This function is great too to learn how scripts are working. You want to know how a track is "scripted". Screate a track, copy it and paste into notepad : study the result. Make a small change in scenarist, copy it into notepad : see the changes.
Of course, make a backup of your "scn" file before thoses operations !
Maybe it's a known function, and if it is, i'm sorry !
Matz
(excuse my bad english, i hope i can be understood...)
PS : to convert from the chapter list of DoItFast4U, where the unit is frames and not time like 01:21:45;23, to scenarist ones, i use an Excel sheet that i can attach here or send by email if it can be useful to anyone.
I found a VERY useful feature in Scenarist, that is not really documented, and a very useful way of using it : the copy/paste function.
In any part of Scenarist (Data, Track editor or Scenario editor) you can select any object and copy/paste it or cut/paste it (Edit menu). You just have to select the same parent as the cutted/copied object before selecting paste command (CTRL+V), i.e. copy a PGC from a Title is to be pasted on another Title. Even the same parent is ok : Scenarist will increment the name of the objects copied so there are no conflicts.
This is useful. But the following is very cool. If you export a project to a script, you'll have something that can be understood and modified before reimporting it into scenarist. And if you copy (or cut) an object, and paste it into the notepad (or any text editor), you'll have the part of the script of this object :D !
You can then edit it, copy the modified text and paste that into scenarist !
Examples :
- You have 30 chapters to add in a track. You have the info in the chapter file generated by DoItF4U. Take the track. Add one scene. Cut the track. Paste it into notepad. Search the string "Scenes=List", look for the Scene you created. Copy from "Item=Scene" line to the last "}" before the next section (another Item=Scene or Recording Information(RECI)=Recording Information section etc.). Paste it 30 times before the next section (in fact before the last "}" of the "Scenes=List" section). Modify the "Name=" and the "Scene Time=" info accordingly to each scene. Copy the whole text. In scenarist select the "tracks" folder and paste ! See the result
- On Title_1, you have a PGC with 20 cells and you want to change the cell command of them. Cut the PGC, copy into notepad. Modify the script using the search/replace command of notepad ;) (ok, you'll have to know and understand how the scenarist scripts are working, but it's not to complicated), copy the modified text, select Title_1 icon in Scenarist, and paste !
This function is great too to learn how scripts are working. You want to know how a track is "scripted". Screate a track, copy it and paste into notepad : study the result. Make a small change in scenarist, copy it into notepad : see the changes.
Of course, make a backup of your "scn" file before thoses operations !
Maybe it's a known function, and if it is, i'm sorry !
Matz
(excuse my bad english, i hope i can be understood...)
PS : to convert from the chapter list of DoItFast4U, where the unit is frames and not time like 01:21:45;23, to scenarist ones, i use an Excel sheet that i can attach here or send by email if it can be useful to anyone.