Old 08-17-2015, 07:03 AM   #1
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Hi all

My name is Jonas and I work as a Sound Designer in the Video game industry here in Sweden.

I use Reaper everyday in my job, and I think it's the best DAW when working on Sound Design in general. It was about half a year ago when I moved from using Sony Vegas with some neat scripts for batch rendering, to start using Reaper instead. The only thing I really miss from using Vegas is the functionality to batch render regions with certain naming ability's.

In a perfect world: If you have four regions with the name "apple" and four regions named "banana" in the same project. Then when using the Wildcard function "$region_$regionnumber" it would batch out the file names "apple_01 - apple_04" and "banana_01 - banana_04". Instead, right now it puts out "apple_01 - banana_08".

I know that when you batch render with only the "$region" wildcard, you get "apple-001 - apple-004" and the same with "banana". But in that case, is it possible to change that default naming to "apple(_01)" instead ?

Thanks in advance, and keep up the good work!
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Old 08-17-2015, 01:13 PM   #2
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Welcome to the forums, Jonas...

Pedantic Q first, do you mean REAPER Regions (a kind of timeline marker range), or Media Items (which PT, etc, call regions or clips)?

If it's the latter, load up the latest SWS extension pack and then search the action list for the label extension actions. Actually it's called SWS/IX: Label processor, and can be easier accessed with the extension dropdown menu.

I think this will do everything you were asking for with wildcards.


Incidentally, if you record BWAVs with iXML metadata, I have (unfinished, but working) scripts to read that metadata from an item's source wav and name the item with that metadata using wildcards.



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Old 08-17-2015, 01:30 PM   #3
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Hi hellmountain. I don't believe there is a way to do what you want, currently. We would need to add another wildcard, something like $regionindex or $regioncount, which would count regions of the same name from start to finish. Or an option for $regionnumber to behave that way in cases where the same region name is used more than once, that might be easier.
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Old 08-17-2015, 02:30 PM   #4
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... added $namecount wildcard for the next build.
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Old 08-18-2015, 12:37 AM   #5
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That's super awesome! Thanks a lot guys!
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Old 08-18-2015, 07:56 AM   #6
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I echo that! This is such a great feature for game audio work! Very excited.
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Old 08-18-2015, 08:26 AM   #7
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... added $namecount wildcard for the next build.
Wow, heh heh, now that's what I call service...
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OMFG this is amazing, just saved me so much time, ufff!

Reaper is the bomb!
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