Advice on huge job of exporting and renaming files

[geitz]

I'm working on an edit for a voice prompt system and I have about 2700 regions on one track that have various names. They are laid out on the track in a particular order, however. I'm trying to find a way to export those regions (as audio files) so that the order that they appear in the Finder reflects the order in which they fall in the track. Just exporting from Pro Tools puts them out in the order in which they're named in the Audio bin, not the order in which they lie in the track. Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,
Greg

[minister]

hi greg,

well, the finder will only sort by name, date modifies, size and kind. ...

i take it, you can't rename the file because they need a certain name?

if you can rename, or at least put a number on them, you can use the 'rename' or 'auto rename'. you can also sort differently in the Audio Bin -- by name, date, user timestamp. if you sort by user timestamp, then you can auto re-name and choose a name and then it will number it. so, "phone_prompt_" and it will give you phone_prompt_01, phone_prompt_02, phone_prompt_03 etc... in order on your timeline... then when you export them to finder, you can sort by name.

or some combination that fits your needs.

hope that helps!

[Frank Kruse]

You could read the sessionfile with soundminer it is able to sort by timestamp. batch-rename with the admin-window and export the regions from SM to a new folder.

frank.

[rhumphries]

You could also rename the track and option+Shift+3 each file. It will then be renamed with the track name and a number. very tedious, but less so than typing.


-Richard

[geitz]

You nailed it with the "Sort By > Time Stamp" function followed by "Auto Rename", Tom. Funny how many functions there are in PT that are outside of what one normally does on a daily basis but are lifesavers once in a while.

Much, much appreciated.

Greg

[minister]

glad it worked. it is not something i have used, but having used 'Autoname' and knowing you could sort, it fell into place. and it's true, sometimes we think, gosh i wish i could do 'this'...oh! look. if i do this and this i can do that! surprisingly deep, PT is.

[jeremiahmoore]

Don't suppose there's any solution for this but have to ask, in case somebody out there has an idea.

Is there a way to select an entire track of regions, and batch-modify the user timestamp to be the timecode at which the region currently resides on the track? A "Stamp these where they are now" feature.


-jeremiah

[minister]

Originally Posted by jeremiahmoore

Don't suppose there's any solution for this but have to ask, in case somebody out there has an idea.

Is there a way to select an entire track of regions, and batch-modify the user timestamp to be the timecode at which the region currently resides on the track? A "Stamp these where they are now" feature.


-jeremiah

Any Audiosuite process will do. In fact, the "Duplicate" AS plugin would be perfect. Instead of "create continuous file" select "create individual files". Only problem being if you have fades, it will create separate files for the fades....

[druth77]

Nice!! That's a great way to batch timestamp!!

On another note you can rename multiple regions (with the same name) with the strip silence tool. So if i had a bunch of cloth regions on the same track and i wanted to name the region cloth 1 cloth 2 cloth 3 ect.. high lite all the regions open up strip silence tool then hit the rename button type in the name you want and what number you want to start with..

[jeremiahmoore]

Yes! That makes perfect sense. It's working great.

Praise the DUC, and thanks Minister.

-jeremiah