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the original radiogeek · Location: USA Posts: 8

I may have missed this in the "Help" section, but is there a way to split the block at all cue points? Say I'm listening to my file, and usually I'd stop at my edit point, split it, and move on. Now I know I can mark cue points with F8. Once I've marked all those cues, is there a function/command that says "Split the file at all cue marks"?

VoodooRadio · Location: USA Posts: 3971

Do a search on "Batch conversion". Wink

the original radiogeek · Location: USA Posts: 8

Sorry, Voodoo. Either "Batch Conversion" couldn't do what I was asking, or I'm not sure what I'm looking for (which is entirely possible).

I'm not looking to convert from one format to another, or save cue ranges as individual files. Invariably my reads for :60's take anywhere from :65 to 2 minutes, with lots of stops and starts. I want to be able to quickly mark the block with a cue, and split the block at all cue points with a single command/click/keystroke. Then I'd take my individual blocks and arrange them as needed.

Is it just a pipe dream, or does anyone know if it's possible?

SteveG · Location: United Kingdom Posts: 6695

No, VooDoo is right - this is a batch processing job, but you can't realistically do it in multitrack mode, and there is no way to save blocks other than as files. If you record in edit mode, and highlight each range you want to separate out, and hit F8, it will be stored as such in the cue list as a cue range, not a point. When you have finished recording, and marking all the ranges, you select the lot, and go to 'batch'. Then you have the option to save all these ranges as separate files. And if you gave each cue a specific title, these titles would be used as the file names. At this point it's really easy to reassemble them in the multitrack view, or even in edit mode, and rearange them the way you want.

If you want' you can do it slightly differently. As long as you have a cue point at the start and the end of your file, you can just mark individual cue points throughout. Now, if you highlight the entire list of cue points (drag the mouse over them) and hit 'merge', then they will aoutomatically be converted into ranges. Give the ranges cue names, and proceed as above.

This works pretty well with multi-take voice recordings - I do it this way every time.

VoodooRadio · Location: USA Posts: 3971

SteveG's basically described it "step by step". It is possible and that is the proper tool for the job. I intentionally gave a brief answer to encourage you to read/study the process and learn it first hand. Shy

the original radiogeek · Location: USA Posts: 8

First, thanks to both of you for replying.

I did try it out (now that I've seen the light), and it did work. However, it's not quite what I want to do.

I'd prefer not to have one read spread out over X number of files, even though I see how to do it now. So did I find the magic bullet I was looking for? No. Did i learn something in the process? Yes.

Again, thanks for the help.

VoodooRadio · Location: USA Posts: 3971