Hi wynot:
The term “Stems” covers a huge area of thought. Wherever IT came from… Thank you sloom… for that great definition…
Toward the “End” of a/the Mixing Session I begin to reduce the number of tracks on the timeline by beginning to condense the number of faders available to me on the mixer screen. To do that, I beging to mix or have available just the groups of “Rendered” Tracks., but if I have to “touch” an individual track I have to "Open that track to the timeline, again… IT’s a bit tough on the mental process but IT isn’t impossible.
BUT… If “Groups could be opened on the timeline as a “Sub-Timeline” that would make the mental navigation of playing with one fader in a group easier to handle… Well… in my opinion, IT would… I wouldn’t know till and-if I had that feature available to me. to try…
I did a “Google” on the term Broadcast Wave File” and I came up with these two links.
http://24p.com/BWF_PAL.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format
You have to scroll down pretty far on the “wikie” link to see the reference… .bwf extensions for it…
To have n-Track recognize and embed the information that can be carried by BWF files would be the envy of all other multi track editors that don’t recognize the BWF extension…
Haveing the option to engage or not-engage the extension in a drop-down menue would be the answer… for saveing hard drive file space and resourses…
Bill…
| Quote (woxnerw @ July 11 2006,11:55) |
| To have n-Track recognize and embed the information that can be carried by BWF files would be the envy of all other multi track editors that don’t recognize the BWF extension… |
Actually, that n-track and Vegas are the only DAW software I’ve run across that DON’T support writing in the BWF format.
All the big multi-track editors support it:
All Steinberg products - Nuendo, CuBase, Wavelab
ProTools
Logic
Sonar
Man, this is brilliant. I’ve been learning to use Pro Tools and never understood how a Broadcast wave differed from any other. It’s a great idea! Thanks for bringing this subject to our attention, Mr. X. Let’s hope this is part of version 5.
| Quote (aikan @ July 21 2006,19:14) |
| Let's hope this is part of version 5. |
I would certainly buy it - probably the more expensive version too if it would write BWF. Without it, the program is of no use to me.
BWF is cool, but not essential in most situations (for most n-track users, anyway)
As you know, when exchanging a project with another nTrack user, you just need to pass the WAV files and the .sng file. Everything will show up on the timeline where it’s supposed to.
As far as exchanging projects with someone using another system, you have the slightly annoying but workable option of rendering each timeline track as a separate WAV file from song start (often with a sync beep or click just before song start, as a means of checking and tweaking sync), using helpful track-naming like “project_x_drums_1.WAV”, and so forth. In this way you can exchange projects between any two systems.
If you absolutely need BWF, or you’re doing time-code dependent things like audio post for video/film… nTrack probably isn’t the best choice for you.