Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions -ACID Product Family

Subject:Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions Posted by: ro7939 Date:9/8/2008 5:27:12 PM Sum total goal: Recording my voice for non-profit educational CD, then save work, then email to the producer or host at a website for producer to access. Producer requests voice sections to be labeled as "blocks", longest block estimated 2-minutes. 1. Already recorded nine blocks but saved as tracks in one file. This appears to be an error on my part because I don't know how the producer can hear each block separately. 2. For future use, what is easiest way to save maybe up to 100 blocks for one project, all in one easily accessed location? 3. What is easiest method to get the work to the producer? In other words: saving it, format, emailing it, hosting it somewhere, etc. Many thanks from Utah noob!
Subject:RE: Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:9/9/2008 4:47:29 AM It's not clear to me what the producer is expecting when they are asking for "labeled as blocks". Where are they expecting to see these labels? In what format? You need to find out exactly what they want and how they will be working with it before you can determine what's the best way to deliver it. ACID can make wav files with embedded markers but I'm not sure how the producer would see these markers unless they are working with a program that recognizes them. That's why it's so important to understand how the producer expects to get them. What you would do is to move each of the events on the tracks you have already recorded so that they play one after the other and place a named region around each to serve as the label. Then when you render to a wav file make sure the "save with embedded markers" option is checked. This will produce a wav file with regions inside that can be seen in Sound Forge and Vegas (and maybe some other programs) One other idea is to make each "block" a CD track and then burn a CD with the hundred blocks as 100 tracks (I think the limit is 255) and mail it to them. That gives them instant access to any block they need. ~jr Message last edited on9/9/2008 4:57:00 AM byJohnnyRoy.
Subject:RE: Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions Reply by: thirdnostril Date:9/9/2008 9:35:19 AM 1. Choose the track of the block you want to hear, and click the Solo button (the little exclamation point). Assuming you're finished with the audio, render the file to a .WAV format file. Name it "Block Number XX." Only the soloed track will be heard. 2. Render all your blocks to the same folder that has nothing else in it, numbered as you need. 3. For that many files, unless you have some serious free Web hosting, I would just burn them to a data CD or DVD and snail-mail it.

Subject:Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions

Posted by: ro7939

Date:9/8/2008 5:27:12 PM

Sum total goal: Recording my voice for non-profit educational CD, then save work, then email to the producer or host at a website for producer to access.

Producer requests voice sections to be labeled as "blocks", longest block estimated 2-minutes.

1. Already recorded nine blocks but saved as tracks in one file. This appears to be an error on my part because I don't know how the producer can hear each block separately.

2. For future use, what is easiest way to save maybe up to 100 blocks for one project, all in one easily accessed location?

3. What is easiest method to get the work to the producer? In other words: saving it, format, emailing it, hosting it somewhere, etc.

Many thanks from Utah noob!

Subject:RE: Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:9/9/2008 4:47:29 AM

It's not clear to me what the producer is expecting when they are asking for "labeled as blocks". Where are they expecting to see these labels? In what format? You need to find out exactly what they want and how they will be working with it before you can determine what's the best way to deliver it.

ACID can make wav files with embedded markers but I'm not sure how the producer would see these markers unless they are working with a program that recognizes them. That's why it's so important to understand how the producer expects to get them. What you would do is to move each of the events on the tracks you have already recorded so that they play one after the other and place a named region around each to serve as the label. Then when you render to a wav file make sure the "save with embedded markers" option is checked. This will produce a wav file with regions inside that can be seen in Sound Forge and Vegas (and maybe some other programs)

One other idea is to make each "block" a CD track and then burn a CD with the hundred blocks as 100 tracks (I think the limit is 255) and mail it to them. That gives them instant access to any block they need.

~jr

Message last edited on9/9/2008 4:57:00 AM byJohnnyRoy.

Subject:RE: Warning: Noob! 3 basic functions

Reply by: thirdnostril

Date:9/9/2008 9:35:19 AM

1. Choose the track of the block you want to hear, and click the Solo button (the little exclamation point). Assuming you're finished with the audio, render the file to a .WAV format file. Name it "Block Number XX." Only the soloed track will be heard.

2. Render all your blocks to the same folder that has nothing else in it, numbered as you need.

3. For that many files, unless you have some serious free Web hosting, I would just burn them to a data CD or DVD and snail-mail it.