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2016/08/29 03:43:35
sfmolloy@chariot.net.au
The are good reasons why you might want to know the correspondence between tracks, their names and the names of wav files in your audio directory.
 
I am working on a project for an iPhone app in which I have a combination of voice-over and backing music in multiple track folders. I want to take all of the voice-over wav files to a mastering engineer who will EQ, compress and level-balance all of these using far better tools, ears and monitoring environment than I have access to.
 
Therefore, I need to know how to reach into the Audio directory where there are some 800 or so files and take out only the 'VOX' ones. Once they have been processed, I will bring them back drop them into the Audio project folder and re-open the project with clean balanced VOX files.
 
It has been frustrating trying to work out how to do this but I have developed the following method.
 
1. name the track with the first VOX file in it that I want to export with a 'VOX' prefix, and a unique name that clearly identifies it
2. use the 'Copy track name(s) to clip names(s)' function in Track View>Tracks
3. select and then Bounce the track
4. go to the audio file, sort on 'last modified' and check that the a new wav with the track name has appeared.
At the end of this process I will sort by name in the Audio directory and select all files with the 'VOX' prefix, copy them and take them to the mastering engineer.
Just in case I lose the time-stamping on the clips in the processes at the master studio, I will make sure all of the clips go right back to the zero point of the project. 
 
I realise that I could use the 'Export' function to do all but this would mean that I would definitely lose the time-stamping.
 
If any one can figure out an easier way to do this, I'd love to hear it.
 
S
 
 
 
 
 
 
2016/08/29 05:21:45
Bristol_Jonesey
In your situation I would do 2 things:
 
  1. do a Save As to a new folder/location making sure "Copy audio with project is checked". This will ONLY copy across the wavs referenced by the project
  2. When you Export your tracks, choose Broadcast Wave (time stamped) in the Files of type dropdown
2016/08/29 07:14:20
chuckebaby
ya BJ has the right approach here. its not that hard really.
you can do an Export and only choose the Vox files. with the save as function you have a whole new folder you could compress and send to the producer who is doing the work.
it might even be possibly to copy/overwrite the wave files with the new ones once they come back to you.
 
make a back up of the project. just incase you need to start from point A again.
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