rec.arts.movies.production.sound

If you have mono files and need to merge them into poly there are two
programs that will do the job easily. Sound Devices has "Wave Agent". You
can download it for free from their website and it is very easy to use, and
fast. It operates under both Windows XP and Vista.
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Fostex offers BWF Manager. It is available for both XP and Vista and is very
easy to use.
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The only issue that I've found is this: The show I'm doing sends mp3 files
with timecode to transcription. To do this we use BWFWidget Pro. We
usually are recording up to 8 tracks and we have to select which two tracks
will be used in the two track mp3. When trying to break apart multi track
poly files BWF Manager keeps the track number identifier, so if you used
tracks _2 and _7 in your two track poly file the two track poly file would
look like a 7 track file to BWFWidgetPro. You then need to rename _2 to _1
and _7 to _2. Fostex says they did this to allow putting the files back
together again or to maintain clarity or something like that, but it doesn't
present a problem at all, it just adds the renaming step. Sound Devices,
Wave Agent does this all for you in one step. It's easy to create custom
mp3 files with timecode to quickly send to transcription.

Jay Hartigan















"Michael Clark" wrote in message
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> On Sep 7, 2:43 pm, cryingpi...@ wrote:
>> I've recorded a film project with multiple tracks (most of the time
>> 2) as split files (seperate files for each track). This was with
>> Boom Recorder / BWAV. Telecine wants poly files. Their DV-40 can
>> only deal with one file for each take....
>>
>> Anyone know of a way to merge the multiple files/tracks to a poly
>> file, while maintaining all the embedded iXML data?
>> Thanks
>> John
>
> This could work...
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