Render selected Regions (DONE)

[introvert]

So there's a workflow issue with the Region Render Matrix a few fellow sound designers have brought up in discussion with me over the last week, and I agree with them. So I'm throwing it out here to see if we can get any traction. And maybe there's an even more efficient way to do this, this is just the best I've come up with.

Often when we're building sound effects, our sessions get complicated. We create regions for individual sound renders, we assign the Render Matrix render path for those regions, we render a bunch of stuff out, life is grand. Sometimes we end up with dozens of regions in a single session, and they can have various different points on the matrix picked for their render path.

Here's the issue: if we go back to our sessions and make some tweaks (happens all the time), and we only want to render some of them, we either have to render everything and go delete all the additional assets that got spit out, or we have to undo our RRM assignments to just render the assets we need.

So if we had an ability to render only the regions selected in the Region/Marker Manager, that would allow us to quickly re-render just the assets we need without spitting everything out, and we wouldn't have to undo our RRM assignments.

It would be a great workflow helper, and I know of at least a handful of other sound designers who would benefit from it.

Whether you pick it up or not, thanks for all the hard work you put into this DAW for us. The efficiencies of Reaper compared to other DAWs may sound nice on paper, but for some of us who do this professionally, those efficiencies translate to us getting done with work earlier, going home earlier, and spending more time with our families. So we appreciate it. Cheers guys.

[Ice]

+1

I agree rendering selected regions would be helpful.

I'd also love the ability to render regions only within the time selection.

[lucafusi]

Thirding this--it would be wonderful to be able to route specific tracks and folders for export without having to choose between unmapping that stuff to avoid re-renders or re-rendering the whole thing all the time.

Nuendo's marker track workflow could be worth looking into here!

And while we're on the topic of marker / region quality of life, overlapping regions really need to cascade vertically within the space allotted them up top instead of overlapping. As soon as you've got any regions overlapping one another it becomes impossible to manually manage their start / end points, meaning you've got to delete and re-add the region. Meaning you may also have to manually re-map it in the render matrix. See point one!

Okay, final issue: the marker / region name field in the manager continually blinks and attempts to refresh while you're typing in it within Windows, making it impossible to see what you're writing until you hit return.

[X-Raym]

Hi guys,

Region Matrix has an API function for ReaScript,
so in resume, you can imagine all sort of scripts with it like Unselect regions outside of time selection and select only region inside of it, backup-restore the Region Matrix state into a file, draw a pixerl art PacMan inside a 100x100 matrix...

e.g. : Script Request: Render Region Matrix (stopping in between regions) - Cockos Incorporated Forums

Note that there is no "selected region". There is selected items and current region. You can't select region, but only set the time selection inside it.

These actions doesn't exist yet but you see my point : if you need it, you can code it, make a script FR or hire a dev. :P

[introvert]

Thanks for the replies. I will look into whether this is achievable via script. I'm having a conversation with X-Raym on the Reaper slack channel about it.

[X-Raym]

for eg,
- backup region matrix
- restore region matrix from backup
- clear region matrix
- set regions matrix from time selection (and why not selected tracks only or all if any is selected)

These are all possible with ReaScript.

[_emarque]

+1

I asked the same here https://forums.cockos.com/showthread...52#post2060352

That will be so helpful for lot of us.

[divedive]

you can use reascript to save / recall region render matrix settings to txt in project folder.

however, RRM does need some love. the one that gets me is when you have long region names that get clipped by the ui.

[schwa]

Originally Posted by lucafusi

overlapping regions really need to cascade vertically within the space allotted them up top instead of overlapping

Right-click the ruler > Ruler layout > Display project regions in lanes.

[X-Raym]

- backup region matrix
- restore region matrix from backup
- clear region matrix
- set regions matrix from time selection (and why not selected tracks only or all if any is selected)

These scripts have been released in my ReaScripts: Region Render Matrix Pack / ExtremRaym.

[schwa]

It would be possible to add the ability to render only selected project regions from the region render matrix. Does it make sense to do this, or to render only selected tracks within selected regions?

[ADDIKTION]

This is so great, I've been dreaming of this since we have region matrix rendering.

Guys do you know if it is possible to save/restore region selections, or region "sets"?

Sometimes I have hundreds of markers/regions, but I don't need them all the time.
Saving/restoring (and hide/show presets) regions would help a lot on huge projects.

[X-Raym]

@adddiktion


Already in my RRM script pack link above ! :P
Save and Restore region matrix from file.

[SubbaseDnB]

so it can be done using scripts,but not native in reaper?might should be put in the title after done?

[schwa]

This feature was added in REAPER version 5.972.

[SubbaseDnB]

Originally Posted by schwa

This feature was added in REAPER version 5.972.

ahh sorry missed that,thought it was only possible with scripts yet

[introvert]

Thank you for adding it!

[Ice]

Originally Posted by schwa

This feature was added in REAPER version 5.972.

Thank you this is great!

[Rangler]

Is there a way to render a selection and not a region?