Lord Tim
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Render Queue
One thing I really appreciate about Adobe After Effects is you can send a bunch of different compositions to the render queue and hit a button and do everything at once (well, sequentially), rather than sitting around and waiting for each to finish before you have to start off a new one - something that could take many hours between each render if the project is complex enough. Tonight I'm rendering out an album for a client in SONAR, and each project is quite complex, so each export is at least 10 minutes. If there was a way to queue them all up and set and forget, much like exporting Mix Recall mixes are, that would be a MASSIVE time-saver. I could have easily done a set and forget and gone off to have dinner or whatever and come back to a completed album. I'd see this as something that would be like a playlist of sorts, and it would only exit on error (such as a missing plugin, etc.) before the queue is done. What do we all think?
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/23 09:00:28
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Batch processing? Yup, good idea in my book.
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/23 10:48:40
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Yep. That's an area where Sonar is lacking. For these sorts of batch processes it really needs a scripting language.
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/23 10:52:02
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mudgel
Yep. That's an area where Sonar is lacking. For these sorts of batch processes it really needs a scripting language.
like CAL?
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/23 10:56:14
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To the best of my knowledge Cal only ever worked with MIDI data not audio.
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Lord Tim
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/23 23:25:16
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Yeah, a scripting language is high on my wishlist too!
I'm not sure if that'd apply in this situation since it would be loading in separate projects files rather than actually manipulating the files themselves like you'd expect from scripting, but I guess theoretically you could write a utility to load *.cwp in a directory and then export.
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/24 03:09:52
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mudgel
To the best of my knowledge Cal only ever worked with MIDI data not audio.
indeed it only works with MIDI right now, but CAL is still a scripting language; cakewalk also started out as midi only i believe? so maybe CAL could be "shown some love"...
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/25 10:47:15
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What if there was a way to export all projects in a playlist?
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/26 12:30:44
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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
What if there was a way to export all projects in a playlist?
I like that approach.
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/26 12:31:38
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Aye, that's pretty good. Would save me plenty of time.
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/27 08:55:32
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Yeah, absolutely on board with that idea!
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/27 09:11:19
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/27 10:05:41
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+1 to exporting projects in a playlist.
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Lord Tim
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/28 02:43:24
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Just as a thought with the "export all projects in Playlist" thing, hopefully if it does go ahead, it doesn't load all of the projects into memory first like the current playlist tends to do. I was giving that a workout on some VST heavy projects the other day and it brought my system crashing (literally) to its knees.
Ideally I'd love to see a situation where it'd load the project you want to export, do the export, close it and then load the next one in the list or it'd be unfortunately all but worthless on my current set up*.
* to be fair it's EXTREMELY underspecc'd for what I'm doing with it and what you'd expect from a current DAW, and will be replaced in the near future, but I can still see extremely complex projects still being problematic if they were loaded simultaneously rather than sequentially.
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Re: Render Queue
2015/07/28 16:38:48
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This sounds like a great idea but when doing a batch process you would have to be sure that there was no user intervention required during the export. It would suck if you cued up a bunch of songs for export and went on to do other things, and then came back to see that there was a pop up waiting for user input.
I remember doing this with mainframe stats processing. You would cue up your work at 5 pm and have the results waiting when you returned in the morning.
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Re: Render Queue
2016/01/14 19:01:58
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What about batch rendering songs from a live recording via markers that included embedded metadata? Each song could be added to a render queue that would render out the selection between markers and proceed to the next queue item(s). The beginning marker of each song could contain all the info that would be populated into the meta-tags for mp3, flac or whatever. ANY kind of batch render queue would be a welcome addition. Adobe has this sort of thing for video in After Effects.
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