
I personally like to keep a duplicated, inactive and hidden copy of my imported AAF for safety and comparison later. Wow, that’s a lot of options, thanks for being patient through the explanation, let’s look through a few real world examples.Ī simple one that I regularly have to deal with is receiving AAFs from editors.
The process order follows the sections, from top to bottom. You can quickly enable or dis-enable this section of the Batch Track Name Dialog by using the shortcut Command N on Mac or CTRL N on PC. Numbering allows you add numbers, or letters, at the beginning, end, at an index, in increasing increments, or, with or without a separating character. Unfortunately Command A is already used by “Select all” You can quickly enable or dis-enable this section of the Batch Track Name Dialog by using the shortcut Command D on Mac or CTRL D on PC.
“Add”, allows you to add text at the beginning, at a specified point, at the end of a name, or a combination. You can quickly enable or dis-enable this section of the Batch Track Name Dialog by using the shortcut Command T on Mac or CTRL T on PC. The number is simply the position of the character in the track name. The next section is “Trim”, allowing this you to trim characters from the beginning, end of the name, a range of characters in the middle or a combination of both.
You can quickly enable or dis-enable this section of the Batch Track Name Dialog by using the shortcut Command R on Mac or CTRL R on PC. There are some handy guides to regular expressions at Also in the What’s New Guide “Regular Expressions” allows for powerful and advanced use of Regular Expressions, meaning you can search and replace using string search algorithms allows for multiple complex match and replace in one pass. The first section is “Replace”, here you can simply find a alpha numeric text match and replace it, as well as a check box to “Clear Existing Names” for the following rename functions and “Regular Expressions” to enable advanced matching and replacing. Like other Pro Tools dialogs you will be able import and export settings so once you get your favourite and most used rename settings sorted you will be easily be able to share or use in other systems.īatch renaming is applied to the currently selected tracks only.