Here's a slightly different point of view: I transfer quite a few
DATs of my own and for clients, and I have found that with a waveform
editor DAT IDs are nearly irrelevant - if you open the file you can
see the start places immediately!
Thus I at least don;t worry about DAY IDs unless the client specifies
which IDs to transfer - even then, I'l transfer the entire thing on
the off chance it is the last time that DAT might play...
Just curious if this sort of logic occurs to you, and if not why you
need the IDs in Protools? For audio CDs I can see why you'd want
them, and some CD recorders willpick them up...
I recall vaguely from the 90s that some DAT players do send the
subcodes via SPDIF and some don't - I had Sonys and the studio where
we worked had Panasonics - Dave, do you remember which was which?
Lou
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Craig Johnson wrote:
Kudos in advance to he/she who can suggest the best way to digitally
transfer audio DAT tapes to .wav file(s) on hard drive with the DATs'
Start IDs carried over as cue points or region breaks or start-a-new-
wav-file or whatnot. I'm using Pro Tools and would prefer to stay in
that environment but I'm also open to other systems as a last resort.
I have enough DATs to transfer, most with multiple tracks on them,
that manually inserting cue points or region breaks, or starting and
stopping, is both too labor intensive and too inaccurate.
Getting the audio data into a computer file is the easy part. The
problem is bringing the Start ID locations across. I know that the S/
PDIF interface carries Start ID data from DAT machines, so I'm fine
on that end. Now it's a matter of finding some sort of thingy to
automatically translate that to the resulting computer file(s).
Again, preferably in Pro Tools but I'm open to other suggestions.
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