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BWAV support is long overdue, but someone else can take a shot at AES. When I asked about the lack PDC a few years back, I was treated quite rudely. Not the best way to handle a 20-year customer.
While you're waiting around for DP to change, you might want to consider using Barbabatch (from Audioease) to batch convert all the files before loading into DP (I've had poor results in the past with DP's conversion process and no longer trust it).
dtiger wrote:While you're waiting around for DP to change, you might want to consider using Barbabatch (from Audioease) to batch convert all the files before loading into DP (I've had poor results in the past with DP's conversion process and no longer trust it).
Yes It's just not on and don't mention their dither either. It's just not good enough that you pay top dollar for a program that has many great features but one of the most important in this day and age is so sorely lacking and has not been updated for years.
Come on Motu
Creativity, some digital stuff and analogue things that go boom. crackle, bits of wood with strings on them that go twang
I don‘t want to spread rumours - AFAIK conversion of bwav to sdII in DP is working great...
I am just complaining that it takes very long (if the project is huge as was the last I was working on - 30GB of audio files - took me a working day to convert and import them all.)
DP 5.12/OS X 10.4.9/MacBook C2D 2.0 1GB Ram/RME Fireface 400
Broadcast Wave is also the European Broadcasting Union standard. This means that if you do any audio work for EU-funded or EU government-funded bodies you're required to deliver it in that format.
Kind regards.
Dave Bourke
– ideation –
Mac Pro Quad Xeon 2.66 GHz, 5 Gb, OS X 10.5.8, iMac 24" 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo, OS X 10.6.2, Mac G4 dual 800 MHz Quicksilver, DP 7.11, PCIe-424/24i, UAD-2 Quad/UAD-1e, PowerCore Firewire.
Dave Bourke wrote:Broadcast Wave is also the European Broadcasting Union standard. This means that if you do any audio work for EU-funded or EU government-funded bodies you're required to deliver it in that format.
Kind regards.
That's another good point. SDII is way too fickle a format for delivering final audio. I discovered that the hard way when I pulled a couple of mix stems out of my audio files folder and posted them on an FTP site for my sound designer. Once it had been on a windows server all the resource forks got stripped off the files and it was basically useless.
At the moment I'm using PT-LE to convert all of my DP SDII's to BWAV for delivery and archiving.
In fact, while they're at it, MOTU would do well to make all of their file formats (DP project files & clippings etc.) windows compatible, even though it's a Mac only program. It sucks that I can't email a DP session file to someone I'm collaborating with.
DP 9.52 Mac Pro 10.14.6 RME fireface800. Sibelius. Dorico 4
Mr_Clifford wrote:
That's another good point. SDII is way too fickle a format for delivering final audio. I discovered that the hard way when I pulled a couple of mix stems out of my audio files folder and posted them on an FTP site for my sound designer. Once it had been on a windows server all the resource forks got stripped off the files and it was basically useless.
In fact, while they're at it, MOTU would do well to make all of their file formats (DP project files & clippings etc.) windows compatible, even though it's a Mac only program. It sucks that I can't email a DP session file to someone I'm collaborating with.
.zip the file (Control Click or Right Click on the file to get the Finder menu that shows the Archive option) before you post or email it, and the header will not get stripped off.
