Diego Sanchez Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Hi everyone On my cart I use a 788t and love it, but i was getting tired of carrying so much wait around when all i needed was 2-3 tracks for small jobs. Now I have a Sonosax MiniR82 for those jobs and sounds great. One thing is that it creates sequential file names, noting to do with metadata. I do prefer to give production files that are named after the scene and take, like in the case of the sound devices recorders. I found a workaround for it, by uploading the files to my computer and renaming them with WaveAgent. It works great and it's very quick, but it means I also have to carry my computer. Does any one does this and know an app for either android or iOS that can do the same? Ideally i would like to do it on my phone or on my iPad mini. Thanks a lot Diego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 I would talk to editorial and ask if they care. This came up when the Deva was very widespread, and my experience is that nobody cares as long as the metadata is correct and the tracks are named correctly. I personally wouldn't worry about it, but ask the post supervisor what he or she thinks. Wave Agent would be my suggestion as well, but this is also something that the Assistant Editor could do if it was really an issue. As long as the Sound Report specifies the name of the file with the name of the scene & take (and circled, notes, etc.) I bet it's not a big deal. Note that the camera files do not have the scene or take number, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Sanchez Posted April 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Point taken mark, i just sometime like to make it simple for post people. This is mostly for jobs where i'm by myself of the bag, so generally the sound report is non-existent, but you are right, they can see metadata after. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Mansvelt Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 On my most recent job Post instructed me not to change the Deva file names in wave agent (or any program for that matter) as this messes with the Avid and some metadata can't be read afterwards. Made my life easier on set which is always good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 DS: " I do prefer to give production files that are named after the scene and take, " I prefer to give them what they prefer, which is not necessarily what I prefer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted April 24, 2014 Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 Instead of renaming maybe just tell them what is going on in each of those files, in some sort of report? Wave Agent can pickup the TCs if that's important but you could also just make a text file (on various devices) that correlates file # with scene/take or whatever. When I used to do this (pre-recorder metadata entry) post seemed to like it fine. A text file can be emailed or added to the download you give a DIT or wrangler on location. philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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