![]() Managing the thousands of music cues has become an important task. We’re in the sixth season of the show, and have amassed a large library of original songs and underscore in the years we’ve been working on it. I’m the music producer for a television show at Rhumba in New York City. To be honest, I wasn’t even interested in the app at all, but it came in the bundle and only later discovered its usefulness.Ī Second Example Of How To Use A Better Finder Rename I use ‘A Better Finder Rename’ which I innocently got as part of an online bargain software bundle many years ago. Because of the way our pipeline works, every error like this will set us back quite a while. this could be done manually, but it would be time-consuming considering the number of songs we output, and a single character out of place in any file name would cause a failure in the system. ‘tt’ is the track number between 01 and 24.Īfter that you can add a descriptive title of some sort. ![]() ‘nnn’ is the song number between 001 and 100. JoeCo describes it as “nnn-tt.wav” where: The problem is that the audio player on the gig is a JoeCo, which has very specific file naming requirements. Given the way Pro Tools names files, I end up with something that looks like this. We asked Michale Costa and Nathaniel Reichman to walk us through a step by step guide on how they use A Better Finder Rename and Damian Kearns to show us how he uses Automator.Įach of these is bounced from Pro Tools in a single move. This is the only app I’ve ever used to rename, transcode, move or otherwise manipulate batches of files. Interestingly Damian Kearns still uses Automator.ĭamian Kearns - Yes, I still use Automator, the basic Mac application that’s been around since 10.4 and is at its core, an Applescript interface. So I tried my hand at some shell scripts, but it’s just so cumbersome to write bash scripts. Steve DeMott - I used to use Automator, but Apple warned us that it was going away (along with AppleScript). Its track naming requirements are explicit and ABFR does it for me in seconds, once I have configured a few basic parameters. Michael Costa - Once a year, at Christmas, I do a gig where we need to deliver hundreds of files (in 24 channel blocks) for a JoeCo machine. Reid Caulfield - ABFR is great but can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Russ Hughes - I’ve been using ABFR for years. It is a very capable way of doing more than simple renaming. I use it all the time in large scale sound effects library work and it’s awesome. All that said, I do use the Batch Renaming function in Pro Tools as well, which was a great improvement when it was introduced.Īlex Knickerbocker - ABFR has very powerful batch file management. It's especially good at taking text files or tab-delimited data and smart-renaming tens or hundreds of files in one go. Nathaniel Reichman - I use A Better Finder Rename (ABFR) for deliverables, and also for our giant music libraries. So we asked our expert team to help answer this question and the overall consensus was A Better Finder Rename with one person using Apple’s Automator. ![]() So what solutions do you all use to name and manage all the deliverables we have to handle these days? Thanks.” ![]() I’m sure that’s not even big compared to what some people submit for certain things but if there is anything I’d love to figure out how to automate and speed up it would be that". I have Soundflow and I’m speaking to people about that but for instance, I just did a show for Discovery plus and all the mixes had to be multi-mono and the total number of channels with the Master prints and stems was 41. I have yet to figure out a great way to name files either through automation or shortcuts and I’d love to know what you are using. So we asked the team, what they do in this situation, and in this article show and tell us the techniques and tools they use. We received a question from community member Chris Testa about what is the best way to rename lots of files especially when managing deliverables. ![]()
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