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The SWS extension is a collection of features that seamlessly integrate into REAPER, the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software by Cockos, Inc
https://www.sws-extension.org/
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Group audio with matching BWF timecodes as takes in an item #589

Open Jeff0S opened 10 years ago

Jeff0S commented 10 years ago

From Airon.e...@googlemail.com on July 22, 2013 19:35:31

I've got an idea for people that record multiple tracks locked to a timecode source. I'd like to know if any of you guys have the time to code these functions. These functions are adding new takes to existing items based on embedded timecodes in files on disk that match those of selected items.

People that can use this include live recording engineers that record across multiple rigs, music video folks who record production sound, film/tv production sound mixers, field recording folks with lots of recorders and mics, and probably plenty more setups I can't remember right now.

Here's a simple explanation of the problem and the solution:

[img] http://stash.reaper.fm/17242/Multi-file-timestamp-workflows-01.png[/img] How much work would it be to implement these functions ?

This is one of the primary obstacles for dialogue editors in using Reaper for their work, since bringing in the good tracks otherwise costs a lot of time.

Please keep in mind that you can use additional parameters for picking the other tracks to include as takes in the selected items, such as "Sound Roll", which is often used on film sets.

Programs such as [url= http://www.vosgames.nl/products/BoomRecorder/]Boom Recorder[/url] are a good reference for the kind of data you'll find.

A good tool to inspect files with all the data it can have is [url= http://www.sounddevices.com/products/waveagent/videos/]Wave Agent by Sound Devices/url.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/sws-extension/issues/detail?id=589

Jeff0S commented 10 years ago

From Airon.e...@googlemail.com on July 26, 2013 04:51:57

We've started a discussion about this SWS request in the General section of the Reaper forum here: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=126278 Robin brings up a good point that the media files that this function is supposed to bring in as takes may come in the form of just ONE POLY-channel file.

In that case the take with that poly file has the duplicated in the item by the number of channels it contains. For each take the single channel from the poly file is then chosen to be used, as can be done in the Item context menu right now.

Any dev want to take a stab at this with some test files ? If so, I'll try to procure some.