Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB Batch processing 12 – 301 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. Using presets for batch processing Please note that there are two different types of presets involved in this dialog: Batch processing presets Use these for storing and recalling settings that apply to all batches. They include: • All settings made on the Input tab, except the actual file list. • All settings made on the Output tab. • All settings made on the Schedule tab. They do not include: • The list of files to be processed. • The list of processors assembled in the Processor List dialog. Processor List presets These include the currently assembled list of processors in the Processor List dialog. Use these to save useful combinations of processors with their settings. File lists While strictly not a type of preset, the Open and Save file list features de- scribed in the section “Saving and opening file lists” on page 284 can be used to save and recall the list of files processed in a batch. Note that this is a simple text file that can be edited by any text editor.
WAVELAB 13 – 304 Batch file encoding 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 in one go (batch conversion). This is much like a simplified version of the Batch Pro- cessor, for when only batch file conversion is needed (no processing). Proceed as follows: 1.Select “Batch file encoding…” from the Tools menu. The “Encode audio files” dialog opens. 2.Click on the green “plus” symbol. A file selector opens, where you can select the desired audio files (WAV or AIFF). Files must have the same sample rate and number of channels (e.g. stereo/mono). Click here to add files. 3.In the file type pop-up select one of the available formats (WAV or AIFF) and then – in the file list – select the desired files. If necessary, use the [Ctrl] and/or [Shift] keys to select several files. Confirm your selection by clicking “Open”. This brings you back to the “Encode audio files” dialog. Note that it is possible to simultaneously batch encode audio files of differ- ent formats, given that all the files have the same sample rate and number of channels. 4.Select the destination folder for the converted files from the correspond- ing pop-up menu.
WAVELAB Batch file encoding 13 – 305 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 Format dialog for a description of the various options.
WAVELAB 14 – 308 Batch renaming 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 Montages. •To rename markers in audio files and Audio Montages. These functions share most of the same features, with some differences. The Batch Renaming dialog has 2 pages. The first page defines which files/clips/markers should be renamed, and the second dialog page de- fines how the renaming should be executed. The second page is identical in all cases. Setting up which files/clips/markers to rename Files As described in “Renaming files and documents (Rename)” on page 121, you can rename individual files and/or documents, and any open Wave- Lab documents (Audio Montage, Basic Audio CD, Data CD/DVD, Backup Plan, Audio Database) that reference this file or document will be automatically updated. In addition, peak, mem and marker files are also re- named accordingly for audio files. The same applies when batch renaming files.
WAVELAB Batch renaming 14 – 309 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 include any subfolders in the se- lected folder. Rename all files This will apply the renaming to all files in the folder. Only rename files with this extensionThis allows you to limit the renaming to files with a specific extension, which is entered in the text field. Only rename files with specific namesThis allows you to set up specific text rules for which files to rename. If you check this you can type in a text string in the lower text field. Above the text field you can open a pop-up menu containing four options which will govern how files are selected/excluded according to the text string you entered: • File name must contain this text… • File name must NOT contain this text… • File name must contain this regular expression… • File name must NOT contain this regular expression… (See “About reg- ular expressions” on page 321.) Skip read-only files This will skip any read-only text files in the selected folder. Set new extensionAs certain file formats have several possible file extensions (e.g. .aif or .snd) you can choose to change it so that all files use the same extension.
WAVELAB 14 – 310 Batch renaming 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 renaming to all clips on the selected track. All selected clips This will apply the renaming to all selected clips. Only clips with specific namesThis allows you to set up specific text rules for which clips to rename. If you check this, you can type in a text string in the lower text field. Above the text field you can open a pop-up menu containing four op- tions which will govern how clips are selected/excluded according to the text string you entered: • Clip name must contain this text… • Clip name must NOT contain this text… • Clip name must contain this regular expression… • Clip name must NOT contain this regular expression… See “About regular expressions” on page 321. Skip locked clips This will skip any locked clips.