Setting locators for each track?

[Hellpig]

Hi!

I often record a number of tracks that I batch render to individual tracks. Up til now I have rendered as "Stems (selected tracks)" and "Entire project", however that means each of the individual tracks will be as long as the longest track, which seems a bit unnessary...

So, I saw somewhere that you can set individual locators for each tracks, which I suppose would solve my problem, it just that I can't find how to do it. Or is there another way that I have might missed, that just renders what been recorded on each individual track?

[uncleswede]

Hi.

Try this....

select all the items you want to render then run this action:
"Markers: Insert separate regions for each selected item"

This will create regions for the boundaries of each item with the region name set to each item's name

Now you render using the Region Render Matrix

- Go to File/Render
- Change Source to 'Region Render Matrix'
- Set an output directory
- Enter $Region as a wildcard filename
- Choose your audio output format
- Click the Region Matrix button
- Click/set the Master Mix row for each region you want to render
- Click the Render button to go back to the main Render screen
- Click the 'Render N files' button near the bottom

In your output folder you should now have a series of audio files named according to your region names

The above 'reads long' but, in practice it's very quick

[Hellpig]

Allright, gonna try that out! Thanks a lot for that detailed answer!!

[uncleswede]

Hmmm.... just realised that this will not work with items on separate tracks that overlap on the timeline (you'll get combined audio on the overlapping regions)....

Having another think to see if we can refine this...

[Hellpig]

Originally Posted by uncleswede

Hi.

Try this....

select all the items you want to render then run this action:
"Markers: Insert separate regions for each selected item"

Well I hit my head in the competence ceiling right there... should there be a command exactly like that in the menus? Can't find it. :/

Ohh, didn't see you second reply before writing the above. Well, it's noit the end of the world if the output files are large, they are just temprary so delete them after they've been used for their purpose...

[uncleswede]

Originally Posted by Hellpig

Well I hit my head in the competence ceiling right there... should there be a command exactly like that in the menus? Can't find it. :/

Ohh, didn't see you second reply before writing the above. Well, it's noit the end of the world if the output files are large, they are just temprary so delete them after they've been used for their purpose...

Hi.

It's an action in the Action List, not a menu item. Press the ? key to bring up the Action List, search for the action I recommended then click Run :-)

Just to reiterate - my 'solution' will only work if all the items are not overlapping on the time line (they can be on one or more tracks though).

Here's a link to an animation that might explain it a bit better:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5f4ksg3ib5...n%20render.gif

[Hellpig]

Originally Posted by uncleswede

Hi.

It's an action in the Action List, not a menu item. Press the ? key to bring up the Action List, search for the action I recommended then click Run :-)

Just to reiterate - my 'solution' will only work if all the items are not overlapping on the time line (they can be on one or more tracks though).

Here's a link to an animation that might explain it a bit better:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5f4ksg3ib5...n%20render.gif

Thanks again, much appriciated!