Batch Renaming Pro Tools Regions Automation

Hi all,

I’m doing some hefty VO editing for a computer game. I have 25 hours of audio to work through and I’m trying to speed up the renaming (of regions) process.

I’ll outline my process below.

The naming convention works as follows

1. Sound category (in this case ‘vo’)
2. Character Name (patrick/laura/cat etc)
3. Bark Name (take_damage or attack)
4. Bark Take Number (I want this to be 01, 02, 03….10, 11 etc)

So an example would be -
vo_patrick_take_damage_01
or
vo_laura_attack_11

Here’s what I’m doing currently:

Once I have my regions edited I’ll select regions 1 to 9 and use the batch rename window to open up a renaming preset for 1 to 9 which adds a zero in before the number so it will have the name I enter ‘vo_patrick_take_damage_0’ and rename up to 09.

Then for anything beyond take 10 I use a separate preset (that doesn’t add a zero) and rename from there (10, 11, 12 etc).

2 questions:

1. Is there a way to automate the ‘vo_character’ part where it asks me the character name initially? This is probably less important as I can copy/paste this and I’ll only be dealing with one character per session so having a text pop up asking for a character name each time is probably not going to save all that much time.

2. Crucially, is there a way to script it so that I copy/paste ‘vo_patrick_attack’ and Sound Flow will add ‘_01’ ‘_02’ ……. ‘_10’ ‘_11’ etc etc.

So essentially I select all the regions I want to rename and it will do the above from _01 numerically onwards.

So again just to be clear

• I select 13 regions
• a SF pop up box asks for the rename text
• I type in vo_patrick_attack
• SoundFlow adds an underscore and number, renaming everything to:
  vo_patrick_attack_01
  vo_patrick_attack_02
  vo_patrick_attack_03
  vo_patrick_attack_04
  vo_patrick_attack_05
  vo_patrick_attack_06
  vo_patrick_attack_07
  vo_patrick_attack_08
  vo_patrick_attack_09
  vo_patrick_attack_10
  vo_patrick_attack_11
  vo_patrick_attack_12
  vo_patrick_attack_13

*Edit, as a side note, I just read that there is a possibility to rename regions based on markers. At the start of each selection of regions, I have a marker with the selected name I want to rename to (minus the underscore and number I want to add).
Is it possible to rename regions based on the marker name before them and up until the next marker?

Thanks in advance!
Gary