Stacking Tool

This tool was created in order to organize the Reaper sessions that we were going to edit in after the raw recordings had been delivered. Naughty Dog tends to prefer a style of organization where all the takes for a line are “stacked” on top of each other, with the first take being the highest up and the last take being the lowest.

In order to organize the session like this programmatically, I first have to remove the silence out of all the files, splitting them into individual takes. Next I need to grab the different take information from our Excel cue sheets, organizing the newly split files in the Reaper session based off of the information in the cue sheet. This includes, but is not limited to, making sure there aren’t too many/few files in a scene, placing the split up takes into their cascading order for easy editing and recognition, and removing any unneeded takes from the session. As a result of making this tool, we have managed to cut our sessions ingestion and organization time drastically, as it is no longer a completely manual task (even if it does take some fixing every now and then).