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The Veggie Toolkit from
Peach Rock Productions is a set of
advanced productivity tools that enhance the
usability of the
Sony Pictures Digital Vegas® product.
The Veggie Toolkit was designed to enhance
the media management and workflow
capabilities of Vegas to help speed your
projects to completion by eliminating
tedious activities. The unique and
customizable interface conforms to the way
that you want to work.
Version 2.0 features extensive enhancements
to MultiRender,
making it the most extensive and flexible
batch rendering and media conversion tool
available for Vegas.
Media Manager
(was Clip Logger) adds additional clip
import and media pool export functions and
media file management.
 New
Features
General
- Sizeable docking windows and
toolbars
- Access all tools via single script
icon
MultiRender
- Monitor
folders for files to add as jobs
- Search multiple folders for projects
or media files (via wildcards)
- Batch conversion of media files
- Save and restore settings via
presets
- Use any marker type as the selection
to render
- Select multiple selections in a
project
- Select multiple render templates per
source
- Render fixed length segments for web
delivery
- Add leader or trailer of generated
media or existing media file at render
time
- Add one or two
overlays of generated media or existing
video/still/audio media at render time
- Add master video or
audio
effects at render time
- Substitution patterns for naming
output files from source file or region
information
- Option to skip rendering if output
file is newer than project file - great
for long form projects
- Verify the availability of media for
jobs in the queue prior to starting an
overnight render
- Render history with status and
elapsed render time
- Delay
rendering until a specified date/time
- Optional automatic replacement of
offline media files by searching
available drives
- Drag and drop support for editing or
restoring jobs to the queue, and
rearranging jobs and columns
- Import/Export of presets including
merging presets
- Add jobs to queue while rendering is
in progress
- Options window for customization
- Network rendering is not supported
since it is not available via scripting
Media Manager
- Create new clip logs without having
to import from a text file
- Import clip logs for capture by
Vegas Capture
- Import existing media to create a
rough storyboard timeline
- Optional creation of timeline events
for imported media
- Export of media pool includes all
Vegas info except capture info
- Export media pool from multiple
projects to get a consolidated use list
of media
- Optionally specify the amount of
time to capture before and after a clip
- Open and Save media list in Xml as
well as Text formats
- New tools to manipulate the current
project's media pool
Relinker
- Search one or more drives for
replacements of offline media without
prompting
- Automatically dismisses the Vegas
offline media dialog when the project is
opened
- Verify or change replacement files
before making changes to project
- Option to remove and not replace
unused media
- Efficient search algorithm checks
most likely locations before searching
entire drive
Time Bandit
- New Time code Picker control allows
mouse scrubbing of the control label to
change the end time
Other Features
Time Bandit
- Speed up video beyond the 12x max of
Vegas, without multiple renders, to
create amazing fast motion effects
- Speed up or slow down multiple video
and/or audio events by selecting the
time range and a new end time
- Use markers, regions, current
selection, etc. to define the starting
time range
- Preserves velocity key frame
relationships when adjusting speed
Capture Cutter
- Convert long tape captures into
smaller, more manageable clips
- Optionally updates the Vegas Capture
database for later recapture of the
smaller clips
Media Sync
- Synchronize audio/video events from
slave tracks to a master track
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