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