Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB Batch renaming 14 – 311 Markers You can rename markers of any type both for audio files and for Montages. •For Montages, select “Batch marker renaming” from the Marker tab – Functions menu. •For audio files, “Batch marker renaming” is available from the Marker speed menu (right-click the time ruler). The options are the same in both cases: Option Description All Markers This will apply the renaming to all markers in the Montage. All Markers in se- lected audio rangeThis will apply the renaming to all markers in a selected range. Types to rename The upper pop-up allows you to select a marker type to rename. You can either select “All Marker types” or a specific marker type. If a spe- cific marker type is selected you can select a second marker type from the lower pop-up (e.g. so that you can rename both start and end markers of a certain type). Only Markers with specific namesThis allows you to set up specific text rules for which markers to re- name. 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 markers are selected/excluded according to the text string you entered: • Marker name must contain this text… • Marker name must NOT contain this text… • Marker name must contain this regular expression… • Marker name must NOT contain this regular expression… See “About regular expressions” on page 321 for a description of reg- ular expressions. Skip locked Markers This will skip any locked markers.
WAVELAB 14 – 312 Batch renaming Renaming operations Basics When you have set up what files/clips/markers to rename, click “Next” in the Rename dialog to open the second page. Here you can define an un- limited number of operations to perform on a name. This allows you to transform an existing name or create a new one from scratch. In the “Operations” section of the dialog, you set up and add operations to perform. 1.To add a new operation, click the “+” button. This creates a “Insert nothing” operation, as a place to start. 2.Next, select a type of operation from the two pop-ups at the top left of the dialog. •The first pop-up selects the operation category. You can choose between Remove, Convert, Insert, Find and replace from table and Import and insert. These are all described later in this chapter. •The next pop-up selects the operation type.
WAVELAB Batch renaming 14 – 313 Each operation is associated with specific parameters. When you select a new operation of a certain category, the available options on the Type pop-up change. Depending on the selected operation new parameters may appear below the pop-ups. Each operation is explained later in this chapter. 3.You can continue to add as many operations as you like which will be added to the list in the top right corner of the dialog. •Operations are executed in the order they appear in the list. An operation can be disabled by deselecting it in the list. You can also delete selected op- erations by using the Delete button, and use the up/down arrows to reorder the list. •Each operation can also be associated with a comment (at the bottom of the dialog). The Rename dialog allows you to perform any type of text-based opera- tion. Although there is virtually no limit to what you can do, many of the op- erations are easy to understand and use. The complex options are there for those who need them, but for many us- ers the pre-defined operations will most probably suffice. About the Preview section This allows you to preview the effect of the renaming operations. Simply type in a name in the “Preview” field, and the change is automatically re- flected in the Result field. This preview is continuously updated. •You can also click the Preview button at the bottom of the dialog to open the Preview Renaming dialog. Here you can see how all the selected file/clip/marker names will be changed before you perform the operation. The right column shows the original name, and the right column the new name.
WAVELAB 14 – 314 Batch renaming Range parameters A common concept to all the operations, is “where in the name” the oper- ation is executed. The range relates to the name that will be processed by the current operation. If the first operation adds a counter, the range of the second operation (if any), can be different. For example, if you want to remove certain characters, you have to define “where” in the name this should take place. This is set using the “Range” parameters. There are 2 types of operations: • Operations that act on a range (“from this position to this position”), e.g. “Remove operations”. • Operations that happen at a specific place (“at this position”), e.g. “Insert opera- tions”. The following parameters can be set in the Range section of the dialog: Range: All/Other/Regular expression •All – The whole text is the range. •Regular expression – The use of regular expressions allows for powerful editing of the current text, and is intended for advanced users already fa- miliar with this concept. See “About regular expressions” on page 321. •Other – This allows you to independently define the start and end position of the range, using the parameters in the From/To sections. See below.
WAVELAB Batch renaming 14 – 315 Range: From/To When “Other” is selected, the parameters in the From/To sections be- come available. The following parameters are available in the “From” section: •Start – The start of the text. •Character position – This allows you to set a number starting from 0 and upwards to perform an operation on a fixed position in the text. •Start of regular expression – You define a regular expression in the text field below, and the range will start at the beginning of the first match of this regular expression. •After regular expression – You define a regular expression in the text field below, and the range will start right after the end of the first match of this regular expression. •End of previous operation – If the last operation has removed, replaced or inserted a text range, selecting this option represents the character posi- tion right after the last processed or inserted text. •End – The end of the text. The following parameters are available in the “To” section: •End – end of the text •Position from end – A number starting from 0 to specify a fixed position, counting from the end. •Number of characters – The end position plus the number of characters you specify will be the start position of the operation. •Before start of regular expression – You define a regular expression in the text field below, and the range will end right before the first match of this regular expression. •End of regular expression – You define a regular expression in the text field below, and the range will end at the end of the first match of this reg- ular expression.
WAVELAB 14 – 316 Batch renaming Operations The following operations are available from the two pop-ups in the Oper- ations section of the dialog. The upper pop-up selects the category, the lower the type. Below, all the operation types available for each category are listed. Remove category •All – This operation removes all characters in the selected range. This can be useful as a start operation if you want to create a new name from scratch. •Spaces – All space characters are removed in the selected range. •Spaces at start/end – Space characters at the start and end of the range are removed. Any space characters enclosed by other characters are kept. •Doubloons – Any doubloon of a specified character is removed. For instance, if you specify “space” as the character, any sequence of more than one space will be replaced by a single space. •Specific characters – You can remove any character(s) from the selected text. You specify the character(s) to remove in the text field below the type pop-up. •Surrounded text – You can remove any text from the selected range that starts with a specific character and ends with another specific character. This is useful for removing an expression enclosed in parenthesis or brackets. In the “Left character” text field you specify the character from which removing starts, and the “Right character” text field sets the character where the removing operation stops. The “Case” pop-up allows you to specify whether the position of the occurrence, 1st, 2nd, etc., or all occurrences of this match should be taken into account. Convert category •To lower case – All characters in the selected range are set to lower case. •To upper case – All characters in the selected range are set to upper case. •Capitalize – The first character is set to upper case, and the rest to lower case. There are two options for this operation: Only once: only the first word in the selected range is capitalized, and other words are set to lower case. All words: all words in the selected range are capitalized. •Initials to upper case – Only single letters are set to upper case. E.g. “The u.s.a” will be converted to “The U.S.A”.
WAVELAB Batch renaming 14 – 317 •Specific character to text – The selected range is searched for a given character, and all occurrences of this character are replaced by a speci- fied text. Specify the character to replace in the left text field. In the “Replacement” text field you specify what the removed character will be replaced with; this can be a single character or a text string. •Normalize number with zeros – The selected range has to contain a num- ber. This number is then padded with zeros at the left side. E.g. a number such as 12 could become 0012. This is useful if you have a series of files with non-normalized counters, and you want to change this. You set the desired number of digits for the number from the pop-up below the type pop-up. •Inverse character order – The order of the characters in the selected range is inverted. For instance abc would become cba. •Replace with new text – The selected range is replaced with a text you specify. Insert category •Counter – A number is generated and increased or decreased for each renamed item. The following parameters can be set: • The Start value sets the number given to the first renamed item. • Step: This value is added each time an item is renamed. • Prefix: This text is inserted before the number. Typically a parenthesis. • Suffix: This text is inserted after the number. Typically a parenthesis. • Format: The desired number of digits for the number, zeros are added to the left (but for the first choice in the combo box). • Reset counter if folder change: When renaming files in folders and sub-folders, you might like to reset the counter to the start value each time a new folder is reached. • Decrease counter: Typically the number is increased after each renaming opera- tion, but you can also decrease it. •Specific text – Specify any text that should be inserted. •Part of original name – This operation inserts a part of the original name at the specified position. This is useful for example to reorder the parts of the original name (first operation could re- move all characters, then you could insert parts of the original name in the desired order). The parameter uses regular expressions, see “About regular expressions” on page 321.
WAVELAB 14 – 318 Batch renaming •Pair of characters around text – The selected range will be preceded by a specific character, and followed by another character. Useful e.g. to put parentheses around a part. •Space around text – Inserts a space character before and after the se- lected range. •Space after specific characters – You specify a list of characters, then WaveLab will search for these characters in the selected range and insert a space after each one it finds. •Space before each capitalized word – This can be useful to transform a name such as “MyNicePiano” to “My Nice Piano”. If the option “Lower case for each word but first one” is activated, the result would be “My nice piano”. Find and replace from table category This category allows you to define a table of words (any size), and to as- sociate each word with a replacement. This feature is useful to reformat a text according to a new style. For example, it could be used to map a se- ries of numbers to a series of tags, e.g. to change a numerical sequence like “000 - 127” to “C-2 - G8” (MIDI notes). It is set up as follows: 1.Click the Menu button and select “New” from the pop-up menu. A dialog appears allowing you to type in a name for the table. 2.The Renaming table opens. This contains two columns; a Find column and a Replacement column. 3.Click the “+” in the top left corner. A text field opens in the Find column, allowing you to type in a text string to replace in the selected range. 4.Double-clicking in the Replacement column will open a text field where you can type in a text string to replace the text specified in the Find col- umn. 5.You can continue adding text matches and replacements in the respec- tive columns using the same methods. You can reopen the table at any time to add new words by selecting “Edit” from the “Menu” pop-up. There are two options on the Type pop-up: •Find anywhere in text – The selected range searches each word in the ta- ble, and each match is replaced.
WAVELAB Batch renaming 14 – 319 •Find exact text – Replacing only happens if the selected range exactly matches a word in the table. As an example, let’s say you have a series of drum samples where the term “Darksnare” is the common part of the name, and you would like to change all these to “Ambientsnare”. If you have specified “Dark” as a match and “Ambient” as the replace- ment, it would work fine if “Find anywhere in text” was selected, but not if “Find exact text” was specified. Lastly, two options are available: •Case sensitive search – if this is checked the search will be case sensi- tive. •Keep letter case – if this option is checked the letter case will be trans- ferred to the replacement. E.g. if the selected range is “Pno” and the replacement “piano”, then the selected range will become “Piano”. If the range was “pno”, it would become “piano”. If it was “PNO”, it would become “PIANO”. Import and insert category This will insert information taken from a file or current context. This is mostly audio-oriented as some features analyze the audio file headers. If information is imported from the file, clip or marker itself, the following applies: • If an audio file is needed, the file in the active window is used. • If a marker is needed, the first marker in the active window is used. • If a clip is needed, the first clip in the active window (Audio Montage) is used. The following options are available on the Type pop-up: •Sample rate – This will insert the sample rate in the name(s) according to the selected range. You can select various ways to express the current sample rate from the Format pop-up, e.g. 44100, 44.1 kHz, etc. You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields. •Number of channels – This will insert the number of channels in the name(s) according to the selected range. You can select various ways to express the current number of channels from the Format pop- up, e.g. 2ch, Stereo, etc. You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields. •Sample bit resolution – This will insert the bit resolution in the name(s) ac- cording to the selected range. You can select various ways to express the current bit rate from the Format pop-up, e.g. 16, 16 bit, etc. You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields.
WAVELAB 14 – 320 Batch renaming •Bit rate – This will insert the bit rate in the name(s) according to the se- lected Range. You can select various ways to express the current bit rate from the Format pop-up. You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields. •VBR – If the audio file is compressed using a variable bit rate method the text “VBR” is inserted in the name. You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields. •File length – A time value is inserted in case of an audio file. For other file types a file size is inserted. •File extension – The file extension is inserted, and you can insert a prefix and suffix. •Date/Time – This will insert the date and time (of the last modification date) in the name. •Folder name – The name of the folder in which the file is located is in- serted, and you can add a prefix and suffix. •Name of folder’s folder – The name of the folder that contains the folder in which the file is located is inserted, and you can add a prefix and suffix. •Sample: Midi note – If an audio file is associated with a MIDI root note, then this is inserted. You can select various ways to express the MIDI note from the Format pop-up, e.g. C2 - G8, 0 - 127, etc. You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields. •Sample: detune – If an audio file contains detune information, this is in- serted. •Sample: Key range – If the audio file is associated with a MIDI key range, this is inserted. You can select various ways to express the MIDI note from the Format pop-up, e.g. C2 - G8, 0 - 127, etc. You can also insert a separator type (e.g. “/” or “_”), prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields. •Sample: velocity range – If the audio file is associated with a MIDI velocity range, this is inserted. You can select various ways to express the velocity range from the Format pop-up. You can also insert a prefix and suffix, and a separator. •File header: Title – If the audio file is associated with Title information (meta-data, such as ID3), this is inserted. You can also insert a prefix and suffix. •File header: Artist – If the audio file is associated with Artist information (meta-data, such as ID3), it is inserted. You can also insert a prefix and suffix.