Hi Jenine, I've had difficulties myself as well, and I found out how to get things going. To batch process files in amadeus pro, do the following.
First, fire up amadeus and to begin with, hit command shift n to open the batch processor. The layout of the window is actually simple, once you understand the basics. There are 4 tabs: format, actions, meta data and artwork. For now, forget about the last 2. If you just want to batch convert, then only the format tab is important. By default, after you open the batch processor, you will already be inside the format tab, so skip all tab stuff for now. Next, you will want to select the files to work on. However, even though this is the logical way of doing it, you first need to set a number of options. This is because once you have selected your source files, amadeus will immediately begin cranking away, without you having the chance to set conversion options first. So, first set options, and then hit select files. Let's go through the options. Resulting format is the first option you need to set. Just select your desired destination format from this popup menu, like mp3, m4a etc. To be clear: this is what you want your source files to become, once amadeus converted them. Once the destination file format is chosen, use the button next to the format chooser, to specify your settings. For example, say you want your source files, in whatever format they are now, to be converted into mp3 files, with a bitrate of 256. Then first select mp3 from the resulting format menu, and then hit the settings button next to it, so you can select 256 kilobits for your resulting mp3 files. There's a whole lot more to know, but this will get you started. After you choose your desired bitrate, or other destination file options from the settings dialog, be sure to hit okay there, and you will return to the amadeus batch processor. The next option in the batch processor is called destination location. In short, this is straight forward. The popup has a few preset folders for you to choose from, but of course you can also point to a folder of your own choice. Again: this is the folder where you want your converted files to go. Next option is delete original. This is a checkbox. If you are totally sure that your batch processor conversion options are correct, which take some experience, only then would I advise you to turn this thing on. If you find that you are satisfied with your converted files, you can always delete your source files manually, so that you are in control. Next is: change name to. I never use this, and now that I'm looking at it again, I wouldn't bother. Same goes for filter files, which is the next option, and I'd also not worry about entering regular expressions. Next is: open subfolders recursively. This affects your selection of source files. With this checkbox off, only files, single files from 1 folder that you select, will be converted. With this checkbox on, all subfolders of the source will be traversed and converted. To clarify: let's say you have a folder called big store, full of audio. It doesn't matter where this imaginary folder is on your mac. Just imagine that big store, contains audio files, and also imagine that big store has subfolders, also containing audio. So we were looking at this checkbox labeled: open subfolders recursively. Now. If you have this checkbox off, then amadeus will look in this big store source folder, and if it finds any audio files at its top level, only those will be converted. If you turn this checkbox on, then amadeus will also go through each and every subfolder inside big store, and all audio it encounters there, will also be converted. Keep in mind that it is up to you, to determine what happens to the original audio. If you have set a destination folder for conversion, different from the source folder, then the original audio will still be safe and unaffected, and it won't be overwritten by the converted files. Next option: retain folder hierarchy. The folder hierarchy is simply the layout of a particular folder, with all subfolders beneath it. Of course, only if you chose to recursively go through lots of audio folders, there's the question how to store all those files on your destination. You could either choose to throw all resulting files into one single folder, it being a collection of all the files gathered from all source folders recursed, or, you can choose to have amadeus recreate the entire folder hierarchy at your destination. If you do that, then you will see the entire folder tree on your destination as well, just like you have it on your source location, and then each converted file will be in a location you recognize. Again, only turn this box on, if you are recursing your source folder tree. Finally, there's the option: drag files on this area to process them. This used to be slightly cumbersome, but it is not anymore. We used to have to click this area on the screen using the voiceover mouse simulation, but now, the amadeus author has given us a simple button to click, that voiceover recognizes, which opens the source file browser. This button is unlabeled though, so voiceover will just call it: button. Now that you have set all your options for conversion, you begin conversion itself by selecting the source files or folder, and then if you hit open, to return to amadeus pro, conversion will be on its way. Now without all extra info, here's how to quickly convert audio to mp3 256, just as an example. 1. Open amadeus, and start the batch processor, command shift n. 2. In the format tab, select the destination file format, in this case mp3, and set the mp3 details using the settings button. There, you choose 256 as the mp3 bitrate to convert into. 3. Choose your destination folder, where all your converted files will go. 4. Go through the other options as described, for recursion etc. Usually, you can leave all of those at their defaults, as long as you are not going to recursively convert. 5. Finally, hit the unlabeled button. This will open the source file selection dialog. Select what you want converted, and once hit open from this dialog, you will return to amadeus and conversion will be going on. 6. Once conversion is complete, which has a nice progress window, you will get a message box telling you how things went, that you can close with an okay button. 7. Finally, if you now close amadeus pro using command q, amadeus will ask you to save or discard, well, something. Here, amadeus is asking you if you want to keep the batch conversion settings as you just set them, for future use or not. It is perfecly safe to not save here, because it will not affect your converted files, and it is easy to recreate the settings once you know what they do. It's a matter of less than a minute for all of them. As a side note, a remark on the actions tab. Amadeus pro is not just a simple converter. You can do all sorts of cool things to your files. Say you have 200 songs in your source folder, and you want all of them to become ring tones. To do that in an automated way, here's what you could do. Often, the first 30 seconds of a song is intro. A soft beginning, which won't be useful as a ring tone, because that only lasts 30 seconds at best. So, you might want to begin each ring tone, 30 seconds or so into the song. To do this, you can tell amadeus to cut off the first 30 seconds of your song, as the first step to make it into a ring tone. Next, you want 30 seconds of the song for your ring tone, but no more. So, in the actions tab of the batch file converter, tell amadeus to then cut off everything after the first 30 seconds. To summarize up to this point, you now have an audio snippet from your song, starting 30 seconds into the song, and lasting 30 seconds from there. Then, you could choose to nicely fade in the beginning of the snippet, because that will sound smoother as the start of your ring tone. A fade in of a few tenths of a second is enough to make your ring tone sound nicely at its start. Likewise, fade it out at the end if you want. Once you have your ring tone snippet, it might be that its volume is not as loud as it could be, without clipping. So, you could then have amadeus pro normalize the segment for you, so that its volume is maxed out in the resulting file. All these things can be added in sequence, one after the other, using the add button on the actions tab of the batch processor. Each newly added action will be carried out after the other ones, in the order you added them to the list box of actions to take. Finally, choose ring tone, as your amadeus pro destination file format. You choose this from the same menu where you chose mp3. The choice is called: iphone ring tone. To be clear, an iphone ring tone is not an mp3. Rather, it's an m4r. So, do choose iphone ring tone in the above case, not mp3, or itunes won't be willing to import your 200 segments as new ring tones, and itunes will instead import them as little 30 second songs, which is not what you intend. Hth, Paul. On Jul 20, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Jenine Stanley <dragonwalke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can anyone who has successfully used the batch processor in Amadeus Pro give > me some step by step directions. I'm obviously not doing something right. > > I can't even explain what I think I'm doing wrong because I've tried several > methods of selecting files and applying effects to them and nothing has quite > worked. > > Thanks. > Jenine Stanley > dragonwalke...@gmail.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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