Let’s see how we can do all this with some commands and syntax: Regex shines when you need to find more general things like any 4 digit number or the word “Mic” followed by optional numbers. For this, of course you can search for any term like “Take” or “001” but obviously, you don’t need regex for that. įirst off, you need to decide what do you want to find in order to replace it or delete it (replace with nothing). This stuff gets tricky fast, so you can follow along trying out the examples in Pro Tools or using. In fact, it may be a bit overkill for Pro Tools but let’s see some formulas and tips to use regular expressions in Pro Tools. As I was saying this is where the true power of batch renaming is. Regular expressions (or regex) are kind of an unified language or syntax used in software to search, replace and validate data. Also, you can see that in the case of clips, you can choose wether the order comes from the timeline itself of from the clip list. If we are dealing with different layers for a sound, we could use this function to label them like so:Īs you can see, in this case, we are using letters instead of numbers and and underscore to separate them form the name. This option makes sense when you want to start from scratch and use any of the other operations (add and numbering) afterwards. The “Clear Existing Name” checkbox allows you to completely remove any previous name the track or clip had. Replace (CMD + R) allows you to search for any combination of letters and/or numbers and replace with a different one. As far as I can tell, the different operations are always executed from top to bottom, so keep that in mind when designing a preset. You can open each of them with the following shortcuts:īoth windows also have a preset manager which is great to have.Īs you can see, there are four different operations you can do: Replace, Trim, Add and Numbering. There are two batch rename windows in Pro Tools, one for clips and another for tracks. So this is a quick summary of what you can do with it with some tips and examples. Nevertheless, after some recent days of voice acting recording and all the editing associated, I have been looking a bit into this feature. Since then, I haven’t had much of a chance to use this feature since most of my work has been mixing and sound design. Batch renaming was introduced into Pro Tools at the end of 2017, with the 12.8.2 version.
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