![]() ![]() Even Audacity has a quirky, but functional implementation under the Macro function. (I had a couple Sound Forge power users remind me that it has a powerful batch tool). There’s an Audio Batch Converter which can be added to Studio One and if you use Reaper, you probably already are engaging their automation. How to Find an Audio Batch Processing Toolīatch processing is native in Twisted Wave, Izotope RX Standard, Adobe Audition, and Amadeus Pro. It can also be easy to overwrite original files, so your workflow should include making “safety copies” until you are sure you don’t need them. If you set up any of the individual steps the wrong way, the Batch Process will happily do whatever you tell it to – similar to the water bucket wielding animated brooms in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. Then, press “Start Processing” and let the computer work for you.Ĭaveat – Be Careful What You Set In Motion! Set it up right and point it at a group of files. That’s when the Batch Processor will make you smile. The key here is that you are applying a process (either a single change or “Stack” of those changes) to more than one original file. Perhaps you have to apply the same Effect to all of your Raw project files. Or, if you needed to output an MP3 for each one of the edited WAV files you had (pretty standard for an audiobook workflow). ![]() It would be the same if a client suddenly decided they wanted Stereo files rather than Mono. And I was looking at several hundred separate files that they needed in 16 bit 48 kHz WAV format. It reminded me of a large eLearning project I had delivered to a client who had confirmed multiple times that their workflow had been optimized for 24 bit 44.1 kHz WAV audio. I got thinking about this recently when a member of the VO Tech Talk group asked how to deal with a client who wanted more than a hundred files re-rendered with different resolution. As I mentioned above, a Batch Processor automates any repeated step in your workflow. Batch Processing Automates Your Studio Workflowįor serious workflow, you need a tool through which you can automate those processes. Which brings us right back to watching the computer work. If you are managing all of that yourself, it means you need to pay attention to the computer’s progress so you can kick the next process into gear or open the next file to work on. The time-expanding nature of even a small chunk of minutes becomes evident the moment you suddenly need to wrangle a dozen large files.Įven a reasonably short waiting-for-the-process-to-finish chunk-o-time multiplies out to a significant investment of distracted downtime. After all, what is a few extra minutes here and there? That extra 30 seconds to render a complex Effect, or those curiously lengthy few minutes needed to save a long file as an MP3 might get obscured if I take the time to coil cords or file a few things. I mean, stuff moves fast (or at least it should) these days.īut, as mentioned a couple weeks ago, that almost makes it easier for inefficiencies to hide. Granted, we’re a long way past the days when you brought something to read while websites loaded over your dial-up connection. Over the years, I’ve developed a simple rule for computers: Don’t watch them work.Īnytime I find myself watching a progress bar increment on a computer screen, I get a little twitchy. Batch Processor setup in Twisted Wave recording software on a MacOS computer. ![]()
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