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Any way to force PT to reload channel names?
I did a dialog assembly for a film, and noticed the production mixer did not correctly label his channels for the polyphonic file. The assembly PT session points to the WAV files on my copy of the audio dailies on my drive (I did not copy the media into the session AUDIO FILES folder yet).
Later I found the script supervisor had noted the channel configurations in his notes for each setup, so I wanted to update the files with this new information so it can be reflected in the timeline for the dialog editor. I went into WAVE AGENT and loaded a day of dailies and updated the channel names from the scripty reports and saved the metadata via wave agent. The files show MODIFIED date of today and the correct time in the Finder window, confirming the data/file was changed. However when I re-open my PT session and view the channel names in the clips (VIEW>CLIP>CHANNEL NAME) the name it displays on these updated files is the old incorrect channel name, not the new updated metadata I have created with wave agent. It seems to have loaded/cached the channel name on import and is not updating it when the session is reopened (however it is still linking to that media). I tried to force it to recalculate waveform overviews for that file in hope it would help; but that didn't work. I'm trying to force it to recalculate the whole session now in hopes maybe it just didn't properly recalculate, but I'm not optimistic. Is there any way to force PT to update the metadata values for channel names on media that is already loaded into the timeline or am I just stuck?
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Re: Any way to force PT to reload channel names?
I did find one rather inelegant solution if anyone else finds themselves with the same issue:
I just renamed the folder containing the audio media the session was linked to, making it so when the session was re-opened PT was forced to relink. Pointing the relink window to the 'new' location and relinking the media seems to have forced the channel name metadata to reload... Wish there was a less brute force way (seems logical we would want this to recalculate when doing recalculating of overviews, but I guess that's why I'm a lowly sound super and not a programmer anymore).
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