Yes, Pro Tools has the ability to play through markers, treating multiple
regions as a single file. I've made use of this to enable rapid searching
and selection within long duration recordings.
John
On 26 August 2016 at 03:16, Peter Shute
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> I agree, but I suspect the proportion of the market who record long enoug=
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> to have a problem with it is fairly small.
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> Perhaps a better place to deal with it is the processing software we use.
> Raven Pro will happily open multiple files and treat them as one. I think
> it can even read segment start times encoded into the file names, so it c=
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> deal with gaps too.
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> I'm not familiar with many audio programs. Are there others that can do
> that kind of thing?
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> Peter Shute
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 24 Aug 2016, at 11:44 PM, <mailto:
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> I know we are supposed to be delighted that there are far less time
> restrictions with solid state digital recorders, than tape, but I find I
> struggle to keep track of time, with the new medium. when making very lon=
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> recordings.
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> I completely understand the backward compatibility thing and don't feel
> restricted by auto-slicing necessity, but;
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> As long as there are obvious limits within the maximum file size per
> chunk, I would find it far less confusing if I could set recorders ( they
> all seem to be the same ) to chop the chunks according to a pre selected
> TIME ! interval.
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> I'd even be keen to try creating folders with lots of short evenly timed
> to say 5 minutes or perhaps 20 minutes for all night long. If I could jus=
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> "add-up" simple time units in my head, I could achieve something I could
> call a workflow.
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> Of course, a golden rule, don't ever process a section in any way before
> assembling all the sections you want. Especially don't try to filter
> anything. The junction points will immediately become click and thump
> threats, if you do.
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> If the folks would make recorders ever read these messages, I want to mak=
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> 'Timed' sections the standard way I work. No recorder I've tried, and I'v=
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> tried a lot of lower end ones, can do this. It doesn't seem like a hard
> thing to program the firmware to do.
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> norman.
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