Subject:Streamlining 4500 lines of recording and naming?

Posted by: chap

Date:6/28/2013 5:37:49 AM

Hi all-
I have a project for a friend/client who lives out of the country delivering 4,500 or so lines of dialogue for a video game. they are all from the same character.

I see there is a way to make markers as recording in Sound FOrge, but is it possible to NAME those markers during the record? And then have some one else use them to name the files very specifically (copied and pasted from an Excel)?

Chap

Subject:RE: Streamlining 4500 lines of recording and naming?

Reply by: roblesinge

Date:6/28/2013 12:33:56 PM

You can set the labels for markers in the Options--Preferences--Labels menu. That takes care of naming the markers in SF. I would use a third-party rename program like Bulk Rename or Ken Rename to do a rename based on a text script file, which you can create in Excel.

I actually wrote my own rename application for my company's specific rename needs, which is going from one column of a word document (typically row numbers), to a second column (usually a more complex file ID).

Rob.

Subject:RE: Streamlining 4500 lines of recording and naming?

Reply by: roblesinge

Date:6/28/2013 12:36:27 PM

A little more info. You can't customize the names of the markers as you drop them in Sound Forge, you can only use a prefix and then a number with any amount of leading zeros you wish.

I do this exact kind of editing professionally and file naming has always been the big bear to tackle when you're talking about a large number of files.

Rob.