Command Line Util to Generate .SFK files?

Shredder wrote on 6/26/2006, 7:15 AM
Hi,

I routinely edit 24 hours of audio at a time. It takes forever to generate the .SFK files.

Is there a command-line tool that can generate the .SFK (audio waveform/peak) files? I could then setup an automated batch after each recording to generate these files.

Then I don't have to wait when I'm ready to edit the files.

Thanks!

- Jon

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/26/2006, 7:57 AM
No there isn't, but you can just drop them in to your media pool & walk away for a whlie. it would do the same thing (that's what I do).
johnmeyer wrote on 6/26/2006, 9:47 AM
Supposedly you can get Vegas to generate these much faster if you enable "Build 8-bit peak files" in the Options -> Preferences -> General dialog. I did tests a long time ago on an earlier version of Vegas, after Spot suggested this, and couldn't find ANY difference. However, I always suspected that it was a bug in that version. Do a short test with two similar-length audio files and see if it makes a difference. I think you have to restart Vegas before it takes effect, so you'd have to do the test on the first audio file, then change the option, quit and restart Vegas, and then do the second test. I'd be interested to know if it helps.

LarryP wrote on 6/28/2006, 4:10 AM
You might give autoit a look. It should be able to use autoit to start a second copy of Vegas and push the mouse and keyboard commands to it to do your automation.

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

Larry