Subject:Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Vegas

Posted by: Angels

Date:5/17/2005 10:30:58 PM

One impediment I have in my workflow (other than running VSTi's in Vegas...) is the ability to transfer data opened in Sound Forge to Vegas by simple drag and drop.

It's fantastic to be able to open or open-copy from Vegas to Forge, but it would be great to do the opposite as well. I often find myself opening files in Forge for what I think is a minor edit, then having to save the file, open Vegas and import there for the multi-track options.

I suppose I could get into the habit of always opening files in Vegas and then transferring them to Forge, but I only need to "escalate" the edit to Vegas about a third of the time.

Shouldn't be hard to implement: just create a copy in the Vegas temp folder (or the default temp folder) and import in Vegas according to standard drag and drop. I wonder if a script would be able to do this...

A

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Vegas

Reply by: Ben 

Date:5/18/2005 3:08:54 AM

I'm totally with you on this Angels; I've also long felt this would make sense.

Instead of or as well as drag and drop, I'd envisage an option on the right-click menu of the waveforms in Forge - and on the Tools menu - which lets you "Open in Vegas". This would insert the file on the timeline in Vegas at the current cursor position on the active track.

Ben

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Veg

Reply by: _TJ

Date:5/18/2005 4:27:54 PM

You could do most of this with a script, or possibly a set of cooperating scripts (one in Vegas, and another in Sound Forge).

It would not be drag-n-drop though, It would be more like having a script take the currently open wave file (or selection in a wave file?) and open it in vegas. Adding it to the Vegas timeline is a bit trickier, because we wouldn't know for sure where to put it.

the exact details of the script and how much control you would have to place it on the Vegas timeine would depend on what version of Vegas you had.

tj

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Veg

Reply by: Angels

Date:5/19/2005 3:05:24 PM

Found out something interesting: you can drag and drop from Wavelab to Nuendo, but you can't send an event from within Nuendo to Wavelab.

Cooperating scripts sounds like a very long winded way of doing something that should be relatively easy to do according to Windows guidelines. It just takes a will.

Thanks

A

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Veg

Reply by: _TJ

Date:5/19/2005 5:41:28 PM

Cooperating scripts sounds like a very long winded way of doing something that should be relatively easy to do according to Windows guidelines. It just takes a will.

I wouldn't want to give you the impression that we don't think your idea is a good one. I just wanted to confirm that, yes, you can do this with scripts, and that you can get this working without having ot wait for a new version of Sound Forge.

I think that this is a good feature and will put it on the list of features to be considered for the next version of Forge.

Having thought about it some more, I think one could do this strictly as a Sound Forge script, by having your script show a Form that would provide a drag source.

Vegas already supports dragging and dropping from the Windows' explorer, so you just need to get your script to supply a drag source that looks to Vegas a file dragged from Explorer. I can think of a sleazy way to do this (just show a file-open dialog with the correct folder), but I'll bet that with a bit more work, there's a clean way to do it as well.

tj

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Veg

Reply by: Angels

Date:5/19/2005 8:33:21 PM

Roll your own, hunh?

OK, I'm going to try my hand at scripting this feature; fortunately I may have some people willing to help me; I'll need them because I know my way around a score much better than my way around a script ;)

Sorry about the comment; it's just too easy to be passive aggressive in this medium...

Thanks,

A

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Veg

Reply by: Angels

Date:5/22/2005 9:56:52 AM

TJ,

Just tried the code you posted on the Forge scripting forum and:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

and thanks! This is going to make things a lot easier for me. I seriously have to look into scripting as it seems it can be very powerful. But with great power...

:)

Angel

Subject:RE: Feature Request: Drag'n'Drop Forge to Veg

Reply by: _TJ

Date:5/22/2005 4:50:41 PM

You're welcome. I must admit I was intrigued by the idea, and it led me to explore a area of the .NET runtime that I hadn't looked at before.

tj