Export enhancement idea Sonar Platinum

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2015/10/05 14:55:44 (permalink)

Export enhancement idea Sonar Platinum

I've been a Sonar user for many many years.  As my own workflow increases - As a television Cue Music composer I'm finding that I have to deliver many different versions of the same song.  
 
Sonar recently came up with Mix recall - and with Ipswitch came out with with some export modifications which I have yet to fully explore - such as including a reverb tail  in the mix - 
 
There's great ways to save templates on our way into projects - Id love to expand upon the templates for the  way out.  It would improve my workflow if I could - inside of sonar - automate the export options that I typically have to sit and wait and do a bunch of clicking etc.  
 
Here's an example of a what typical delivery or wrap up session includes for me.   Upon final approval of a mix, I am asked to deliver a Full Mix, A mix with no guitars, No Vocals, and often just Drums and Bass.   I also am asked to deliver an MP3, and I ALSO archive the mixes in another location as an mp3 AND a higher fidelity mix into two different locations.   This is a time consuming part of my work that could potentially be automated through a template.
 

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    Re: Export enhancement idea Sonar Platinum 2015/10/05 16:16:47 (permalink)
    You've probably already found that Mix Recall allows multiple "Mix Scenes" to be exported in a single action (so you can do all your "Mix -Guits" or "Mix Full" or "Mix with Automation for Timecode X" or whatever all in one shot).
     
    What you may not know is that you can create Export Presets. So on top of the MixRecall stuff you can set up specific export setting to mp3 or different drives or file qualities/formats/etc.
     
    So in that scenario I THINK what you'd do is set all your desired mixes up using MixRecall. Then set up and save as "Export Presets" all the various types of exports you do regularly.
     
    Then you can choose the export preset and export all your mix scenes one "export" preset at a time thus saving at least a bit of time. Like you wouldn't have to export ALL your mixes to each format/location for each mix.
     
    So you just choose the custom export preset instead of setting it up every damned time (which I know is annoying).
     
    Not fully automated as you are suggesting but close to it.
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    Re: Export enhancement idea Sonar Platinum 2015/10/13 00:03:12 (permalink)
    Good Suggestion - yes I have dug into the mix recall somewhat.  Not to the extent you have brought up here - I have a project next week that will require this kind of delivery once again.  
     
    The multiple file type delivery thing to multiple destinations - that would be worth some bucks to me=-)

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    Re: Export enhancement idea Sonar Platinum 2015/10/13 12:41:26 (permalink)
    Yanno... you may be able to set up multiple drive locations to export/save to using Windows or perhaps a third party utility (like my Western Digital external drive has some backup tools I think can be configured to do this).
     
    So maybe set something like that up and only enable it when you are doing these types of exports? I am however VERY unfamiliar with such things (I do it all manually).
     
    I guess kind of similar to RAID array stuff (or maybe I'm talking out my arse again).
     
    Anyway... the other things I mentioned should definitely speed things up a bit.
     
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    Re: Export enhancement idea Sonar Platinum 2015/10/13 22:42:00 (permalink)
    thedukewestern
    The multiple file type delivery thing to multiple destinations - that would be worth some bucks to me=-)



    I doubt this is a common scenario for most users, so it's probably not very high on a list of future SONAR priorities. However, the Export Preset option is certainly helpful. Also don't forget you can bounce a mix to a track using Export Presets, and render multiple tracks with different formats within a single project - very handy for archiving. Once you've generated all these files, you can drag them all into a folder in the Media Browser (which is bi-directional). 
     
    So while there's no automated thing you can do - and even batch processing options in program like Sound Forge and Wavelab can't do this - by using various features judiciously you can simplify the process considerably.

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