Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Running and stopping the batch(es)
Once all settings are made, all you have to do to start the batch is to click 
Run. The files get processed, much like when you click Render in the 
Master Section, see “Rendering” on page 239.
You can stop processing in two ways:
• By clicking the Stop button in the Batch Processing dialog.
• By right clicking in the Monitor window, see “Process menu” on page 248.
Zip archiving won’t stop until the current file has been processed....

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Batch file encoding 

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Basic procedure
WaveLab can open and play both uncompressed and compressed files in a 
number of different formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3, WMA (Windows 
Media Audio) and OSQ (Original Sound Quality), which is WaveLab’s pro-
prietary lossless audio format.
It’s also possible to convert WAV or AIFF files to another format. While 
this can be done by opening a file and selecting “Save As” or “Save Spe-
cial/Encode” on the File menu, you can also convert several files...

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5.Select the desired destination format by clicking the audio properties but-
ton at the bottom of the dialog.
This opens the Audio File Format dialog in which you can select the desired format and 
make settings for it.
6.For some compressed file formats, clicking on the arrow button to the 
right of the Encoding and Attributes menus calls up dialogs where you 
can set the encoding parameters and enter text strings.
Click the question mark icon in the Audio File...

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Batch renaming 

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Introduction
WaveLab features a powerful set of procedures to convert, remove, for-
mat, import, and insert text. This allows you to batch rename file names 
according to user specified rules.
When dealing with large projects, it can be most useful to have the option 
of applying specific names to all referenced files, markers and clips that 
belong to the same project.
Batch renaming can be used for the following operations:
•To rename files.
•To rename clips in Audio...

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To open the Rename dialog, select “Batch file renaming…” from the Tools 
menu. 
This is the first page of the dialog, where you define which files to rename.
•The first step is to define the folder in which the files to rename are located. 
This is the top item in the dialog where you can type in a location or navigate to the desired 
folder.
The rest of this dialog page contains the following items:
Option Description
Scan subfolders If this item is checked, the scan will...

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Clips
When you rename clips, the Montage that you invoke Batch renaming 
from will be updated with the new clip names.
Select “Batch clip renaming…” from the Clips tab – Functions menu to 
open the Rename dialog. 
This is the first page of the dialog, where you define which clips to re-
name. The dialog page contains the following items:
Option Description
All clips This will apply the renaming to all clips in the Montage.
All clips in selected 
trackThis will apply the...