Shortcut to Spotting Multiple Files?

[MusicTrax]

I'm in a quandary. I have a situation where I have about 100 individual WAV dialog files sitting in the region bin on the right side of the ProTools Edit window.

I need to place all 100 of these files, one right after the other, on the same track, so that they go on a single track (from left to right) file 001, file 002, file 003, and so on. I'll use Strip Silence to clean them up later on. But try as I might, I can't figure out a way to wind up with all 100 WAV files on a track, other than dragging in one file at a time.

This project I'm working on will require at least 10 sessions of 100+ files each, and I'm not looking forward to doing all of those by hand. Hell, my carpal tunnel is complaining already! There's gotta be a better way.

If anybody has a tip, I'm all ears!

--Marc W.

[iamstudios]

I deal with this problem quite often too. And up till now I had to do it all by hand. I'm looking for a solution too where you can drag all of the regions onto the playlist (e.g. with a predefined distance between each region)

[Frank Kruse]

If you have soundminer it can do it. There is a feature called "lay bin into track" that does exactly that automatically.

frank.

[spigots]

Not a shortcut but a workflow:

Hide all tracks except the one you want to lay regions to

Make that track as large as possible(extreme?)

Go into shuffle mode

Zoom WAY out

Just start dragging. The files will snap end to end and you get into a rythm. You can do 100 + files in a couple of minutes.

If you're tracks are not named in an descending manner, do a "find in region list" for each group of files (common naming convention). It will make everything else dissapear, then "display all" to get all the regions back.

[Sonsey]

Another possible workaround :FCP will do this... just select all the audio and throw it on a track - then export as OMF.

[MusicTrax]

Just start dragging. The files will snap end to end and you get into a rythm. You can do 100 + files in a couple of minutes.

Yeah, I figured that out about an hour into the project. Now I'm almost halfway through, and I'm considering doing a QuicKeys macro to handle the click-and-dragging.

I have Soundminer, but haven't installed the new OSX version, so I'm kinda stuck for the moment. Maybe this will be the inspiration to finally hunker down and just get that done...

--Marc W.

[Chief Technician]

Unless you are using a version of Soundminer prior to 3.0, it will work in OS X.