Mixing Down - The Render Function V3 in Wavelab Pro

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Mixing Down - The Render Function V3 in Wavelab Pro

hello everybody Andrew Blake from the digitalaudiomanual.com today let's move on to the third video as we continue to discuss the render function in wavelab but before we start I want to remind you that there's a link below to the free content navigation guide which is an easy to navigate webpage with links to all the content on this channel and besides that in the near future I'm going to begin adding tips and other bits of information that will only be available there you know things like simple steps that will get you started and up and running quick things that are in the videos but are written down in simple steps that serve as quick reminders when you need information down the road if you're working with programs like wavelab or Cubase plugins or the cable guys shaper Box 2 and many many other projects that are in the works then I know you're going to find just like I have that this is an invaluable study Aid and the other thing I want to make sure you understand is that this is 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the CD tab it opens up this right CD window which then allows you to do two things if you look at your drop down list at least if it's like mine you're gonna have the option to either click on a DDP image or click on the CD image if you click on the DDP image this is going to burn off a file that basically mimics what a CD does it'll have the spaces between the CD tracks and it'll Play Just Like a CD track it'll require a DDP player which is like a Windows media type player to actually play it wavelab comes with a free DDP player but there are other ones on the Internet available and when you have that file you can open it up in this DDP player and play it just like you would a CD when you have this window open it has the option to put in names and contacts and telephone numbers and all these kind of things and typically a DDP image although it's great to just listen to your on your own and hear what your finished CD would sound like typically a DDP image is what you would put together and send to someone that's going to actually burn off you know either a vinyl record for you or a compilation or number of CDs or anything like that where you're going to send somebody information on how to burn your own hard copies of you know see the information that kind of thing so if you go ahead and fill this on and hit the oh yes that's going to burn that image and then you just send it away on the other hand if we hit the drop down and we go to the one that says CD then it changes to the CD screen and it would prompt you to put a CD in your player and it will burn a copy of a CD for you some of your options here if you want your master effects you can have them put on here at this point on the other hand if you've already put them on and you need to bypass them you have an option to hit bypass Master section you can make multiple copies of these you can test them but not write them and other just basic type of options here you can investigate all these and finally the last one that says eject after completion I always use that one if you hit OK on this the way it goes and it will burn your CD then moving down in this result list you have an option that says unnamed file and to the best of my ability basically what I can say with this one is this is when you just want to get something quick because what happens when you pick the unnamed file and hit the render process it doesn't ask you for any information doesn't ask you to name anything or pick a file location it burns off exactly what you've told it to from the Montage into a temporary file that hasn't been saved let's go ahead and do it I'll show you what I mean I'll take my Montage that I have here and I'm just going to hit start rendering it starts burning down here in the lower left and now it has burned a file of that you know audio that we just had but if you look at the tab the names what we just got burned it says Untitled and has a little typical asterisk by it which means that this file hasn't been saved yet typically with any wavelab file you can right click on it and you have the option to reveal it in the Explorer if you go down to this revealing Explorer it's just grayed out because obviously this file is not saved in any location on a hard drive yet it exists simply in a temporary space so if I go ahead and I hit Ctrl save control s at that point then I am given all the typical information of giving it a name a location what kind of output I want to put it to which we're going to talk about all this stuff in a second but then I can hit save so this is like I said the best I can say for this one is just a quick audition situation you know if you have something in your Montage you don't know what you're going to do with it yet you don't even know if you want to save it yet but you just want to hear it after the processing is done maybe take some analysis of it the unnamed file option is great for that because you can just burn something off without even worrying about saving it or any of the information you normally would need and then you can check it or do whatever you want with it and you have the option if you do want to save it to save it at that point and then this last option which is the one I typically use all the time is the named file so when you hit the name file button you are just given all the information that you need to fill in for example on this one it's asking me for the name or location or the format these kind of thing now one thing you want to notice is back on our source tab where we had all these options that we've explored in the last few videos as you change these various sources so changes your named file for example if I move on down to the active track one it changes my name to track One automatically or whatever the active track is if I go down to all selected tracks down here in the multiple outfits it totally Grays out the name I can't even put a name anymore because it says the track names are being used so depending on your Source depends on what kind of field you have here to fill out it keeps as far as the name goes it keeps like a running list of a lot of your history so if you need to change things or go to a different name it has a lot of stuff kind of populated in like a history of different options here if we go down to the location you you have an arrow to send either to Temporary places or actually hit a file where you want to save it on your hard drive again it usually saves a long list of your history of things but it also has your options for saving the destination folder and then we come to the format and the format is an interesting option here with a lot more information than you would probably first think if you click on the format you're given an option for presets and if you look down you have Factory presets which give you all kinds of options whether it's the you know MP3s or Flac or different kinds of waves you also have these multi format presets and you may not have any in here because sometimes you have to save them first which then points up to this thing above where it says edit single format or edit multiple format let's look at the edit single format first this opens the screen that again just gives you so many choices you can pick what type you want to save change the file extension look at different audio formats change the channel setup if you want you can actually change the sample rate right here if you need to the bit depth can be changed it has an option to make some choices on metadata one thing that took me a while to get a handle months I want to make sure I share it with you here when you're looking at the format I've changed this now to MP3 from one of the factory presets here now once I've set it to whatever format I want and I click on the drop down area if I then go to the edit single format it has a lot of information already filled in for mp3 but if I go down to the encoding and I click on the little icon there I have an option that says edit and if I pick the edit button this opens up a special screen for the MP3 encoding which then gives you all the different possibilities of different encodings you may want to use so it's kind of definitely hidden under the different layers of things you know to get to it but you'll want to know about that because you may not want the the fault it may pick 128 maybe you want 320 on your mp3 or whatever you know so you have all these options but if you don't know where to go you'll never know they're there and then the other thing to look at here and I use this a lot but I guess some people everybody has a different opinion on it but the format actually has the option to burn off multiple formats and I have a format preset here that has a wave and an MP3 so with one render when I hit the render button it's going to burn off a WAV file for me and an MP3 file so I don't have to like go through this twice which I have found to be a super convenient option that has been put into wavelab so in order to put that together you have to click on the field go to where it says edit multi-format and then you have a little plus button up here to add whatever format you want to add in here to make these multiples and then you can save it yourself as your own preset but I personally have found that to be a very useful feature and then the last thing in this field here you have an option that says the scheme and right now it says unchanged name which means like my name worker says CD Montage two it's just going to burn it off with that same name but you have a lot of other options here and you have these Factory presets where you can put a date stamp by it or an isrc code or a numeric prefix which you have to understand though is when you use these they apply to the multiple burn off files you do for example if I put down numeric prefix which is basically going to say number one number two or number three to any files I burn it's not going to do anything if I burn off one single file on the other hand if I go down to this one that's says all marked regions for example and then I leave it on the CD tracks it's going to burn off one two three four five different CD tracks here as separate files but then it will go ahead and name this as number one you know with its name number two with its name number three it'll put a number by each track so that's very convenient sometimes okay now let's explore this options page right here when you click on it you get a whole host of options when the thing is rendered and the first one bypass the master section again that's pretty obvious it's going to bypass any plugins or anything you have over here on this master section but then here we go again one of those Little Gems the next option says auto save the master section preset well what is that all about so if we have over here on the master section various effects set up like I have a master rig limiter and I have my dither set up here the thing is sometimes this may change to something else depending on what I'm rendering off and sometimes I'll tell you most importantly you do a master sometimes and it's like wow that one was really good you know I'd like to remember what that is so you want to be able to save whatever you did over here you know in case it's something really good so watch what happens when this occurs if we go to this option that says auto save the master section priest set and now I go over and I say okay let's render this whole montage off down on the left it's rendering off once it finishes the render like it has here now and it's rendered this into a new file a couple of things have now occurred if you look down in the right there's two little stars down here in the bottom of the Montage the first one is blinking because that's telling you that basically now the master section plugins are are now being bypassed on this new rendered file which is typically what you want because you don't want to master something twice if you render a file with Master plugins and then you have a file you don't want to render it again with those same Master plugins again so you have this audio file you can do things to it maybe add metadata or whatever you want but you're not going to add more Master plugins and that's why this thing is blinking down here because it's bypassed it but the other thing that's happened and this is the kind of secret little thing that again is like one of those things if you go to the second star and you click on that guy you now have some options that say save the master section preset or load the section preset and if I go to save the master section preset I'm given an option to give something a name and some options that I want whatever I want and this is now going to be saved with this audio files companion file which is a little file that wavelab always creates with its audio files so if I go ahead and give it a name and I say save it so now if I ever load this file back in as long as I keep that companion file if I load this file back in again and I don't remember what I had set up on the master section when I did it but I always liked the way this one turned out now I can go down to this little star and click on it and there's an option that says load the master section preset and I can click on that and it comes up with whatever was loaded in that companion file and allows me to reload now these Master section plugins so again just another one of those great little features that if you don't know what it is you probably wouldn't ever pay attention to it then you have this option as you look down the list it says fade in out at boundaries now there's a cryptic one if you ever find one so what's happening here is it's allowing you when you do your rendering to put a very tiny little Fade Out and fade in on the clip or if there's multiple clips that would put fade in and feed on it's on each one of them but to adjust this you have to go to your file down to your preferences to your Global tab here over to your audio Tab and there you have default fade crossfades at that point you can check which kind of curve you want and the length and the maximum I can get out of it is 500 milliseconds so it's a very short little fade if we go back to our file and listen to this file as it finishes out it just ends abruptly okay now when I do this render on it before I play it if I just zoom in real close on the last part of the file you can see the wave just kind of dips down a little bit so you can see they put a fade out here [Music] very short very quick little Fade Out option then you have this option to add the Reverb tail that's pretty obvious if you have Reverb it just we'll render it without cutting it off you have this one here that says copy the markers let's try that if I click that let's go to our file I'm going to add a couple of markers here put one here one here one here got three markers now I'm going to render this off yep and then on the rendered file there are the markers so it kept them on there then you have an option as you move down into this area it says post rendering you have the option to create a montage from the result so we click on that and we hit the render button and it then creates a brand new Montage with all the clips nicely lined up below that you have the option to open a resulting audio file that's the one I use 99 of the time because that's what I want to do is create an audio file then your next option here is to open the files in a new file group and your file groups are kind of like the highest level pretty much on your Montage here as you can see I'm pointing at this tab which is its own file group and when I rendered them to a new file group it went to this tab and created all the files in this new file group and then this last option that they give us here it says include the pause before the track and after the track and what that's telling us is that these like these CD tracks they have pauses included in them because of where the markers are in this case it's a two second pause so when we render off these all as individual files if I go to any of those files we can see now at the end of the file there's a good long two second Gap from where the file actually ends to the end of the file whereas if it's if you don't Mark that the file would end right here where the song actually ends and there you go there's all your options in your rendering tab in the Montage there's actually some other ones when you're dealing with just the audio files in the audio editor but we're going to leave it at that right now with the Montage because that's what we're looking at as usual if you haven't grabbed your navigation guide be sure to grab that before you go has links to all the content on the channel ever growing and free to use all these videos in numerical order make some easy to find you don't have to go through playlists you should be ready to render away I know I am I picked up through this series I picked up quite a few more than one tip for myself which is uh that's what it's all about if you can get one thing and put it to you see we've gained something right okay all right see you guys on the next video