kaszarobert / vegas-regions-to-srt

Import and export Regions to Sony Vegas projects from/to an *.srt file with these scripts.

Sony Vegas scripts for creating subtitles with Regions

If you wish to use Regions to manage subtitles for your project instead of the built-in srt tool, then this is all you need. Create Regions to the desired time periods, type in the subtitle's text & export it to srt easily with these scripts. While using the built-in tool, I ran into problems using non-English letters for the subtitles. For me, it was easier to do the job with Regions.

Usage:

1. First detect which Sony Vegas version you have. With Sony Vegas 14, they introduced a new namespace (ScriptPortal.Vegas) and the older (Sony.Vegas) no longer works.
2. Download the scripts from the correct folder and copy to your Vegas script folder. For example: c:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0\Script Menu\ or c:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 14.0\Script Menu\
3. In Sony Vegas, go to Tools > Scripting.
4. If you don't see these scripts, click to 'Rescan Script Menu Folder' and do again Step 3.
5. Click to the desired script:

Script filename	What it does?
Export SRT	Create Regions, type in text and this will export you to an *.srt file. If there're overlapping Regions or the duration of a Region is under 0.5 seconds, a MessageBox will warn the user before saving.
Import SRT as Regions	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Region.
Import SRT as Regions and Tracks	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Region and a Text Event on the timeline.
Import SRT as Regions and Tracks NoRegionDelete	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Region and a Text Event on the timeline. Plus, any previous Regions and Markers will remain intact.
Import SRT as Regions and Tracks Q	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Region and a Text Event on the timeline. Plus the times will be quantized to frame boundaries.
Import SRT as Regions and Tracks Q NoRegionDelete	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Region and a Text Event on the timeline. Plus the times will be quantized to frame boundaries and any previous Regions and Markers will remain intact.
Import SRT as Regions NoRegionDelete	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Region. Plus, any previous Regions and Markers will remain intact.
Import SRT as Tracks NoRegionDelete	Import an *.srt file, each subtitle will be a Text Event on the timeline. This doesn't remove any previous Markers or Regions at all.
Selected Tracks to Regions	Select a Track (or more if you want to) and this will create a Marker for each Event on the timeline.

vegas-regions-to-srt's Issues

Adding random markers.

This is a weird bug I found, but essentially I tried using this script on this computer and assumed that it's broken. Tried it again on my laptop with another copy of Sony Vegas (both are 16 btw) and the laptop just works.

I don't know exactly what causes this bug.