I've spent a lot of time with Steinbergs Wavelab, and they do a couple of brilliant things in that program.
One of which is to store the markers in a separate file.
With Amadeus Pro, each-and-every-freakin-time I make even the slightest adjustments to a marker - the actual soundfile I'm working on gets flagged as changed - saving the markers means saving the entire file...
I don't know about you people, but spending 1 minute each time I feel like saving the changes to my markers (and nothing but my markers) drives me mad.
How about give the markers (and any other change not-directly-connected-to the sound data) their own file, with the same name as the sound itself, just with a different file ending. ".mrk" or whatever. There might even be a standard for this for all I know.
I work with AIFF. Just now I tried to actually save to the Amadeus format, to see if it made any difference.
No. Same here. Save ALL of the 640 MB+ just because I added a single marker before closing the file.
Wavelab does as far as I know not use any particular format "of its own" - no matter if you work with AIFF, WAV or any other of the supported formats it behaves in the same way:
1) It creates a peak file for the "wave" if it doesn't exist - I guess this is just a helper file to speed things up.
2) All the markers of any kind are saved to a separate file. Change to markers makes the program aware that you have made changes - but it doesn't have to save anything but the miniscule marker file.
The result of this practice? Aside from any actual trimming/processing of the audio data, saving when working with markers are INSTANTANEOUS.
Call me Mr. Picky - but the current practice in Amadeus is seriously cramping my style - and eating my time. About one minute every time I want to save - even if there's NO change in the audio data.
Please consider putting the markers in a separate file - where they belong.
In fact - with one or more such extra files, there would be no particular point in using the Amadeus format anyway - there would be no drawback in using AIFF or WAV.
Anybody else agree in my point of view here?
Feature request: Save the markers in a separate file!!!
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Re: Feature request: Save the markers in a separate file!!!
Just curious. How do you mean? I often have Amadeus files, ongoing projects, with 10 or more parallell tracks. Is it possible to save a project like that in aiff?Macoustics wrote: In fact - with one or more such extra files, there would be no particular point in using the Amadeus format anyway - there would be no drawback in using AIFF or WAV.
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Ah yes...
My bad - I forgot the mixing & Tricksing...
No, you're right. The Amadeus file format is just as necessary as the Photoshop format is for picture editing.
No, you're right. The Amadeus file format is just as necessary as the Photoshop format is for picture editing.