Importing/Linking SCS Files? (in 9.4)

AudioBoyMA · Post by **AudioBoyMA** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:42 am

I've been using SCS for both my community theater and my radio drama troupe for the past year and I *love* this program! It's saved me a thousand headaches over the previous years of the show when I used SoundPlant to trigger files or, worse, multiple instances of Adobe Audition!

Anyway, one feature that would make my life even easier: importing or linking SCS files. Here's the deal:

Once a year my community theater does a one-acts festival. I work with each individual director to put together the soundscape for their play. This results in 6-7 individual files which I eventually have to combine into a whole. Trouble is, there isn't -- so far as I can tell -- a way to merge them all into one SCS file, so I end up having to manually reprogram the entire show. This can be really tricky, as it involved scores of cues and the potential for screwing up is pretty great.

(I have to combine the files, as each play has a closing song transition into the opening song of the next play, so there's no time to load the next play file).

How hard would it be to code a method of importing existing SCS files or linking them so that the next file opens without interrupting the playing of the previous one? Barring that, could the program be coded so that more than one instance of SCS can be open at a time?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

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Neil Marsh
Theatre@First, The Post-Meridian Radio Players

Mike Daniell · Post by **Mike Daniell** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:22 am

Working on that right now, Neil, for 9.4. This is not yet in the 9.4 'Release Candidate' but I have done most of the extra coding to Add cues from another cue file, and there will also be a facility to Save cues to another cue file.

Another mod coming in 9.4 is a right-click menu on the cue list in the Editor, so you can add cues, copy and paste, etc, just by right-clicking over the appropriate cue.

AudioBoyMA · Post by **AudioBoyMA** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:39 am

This is great news, Mike, thanks!

Mike Daniell · Post by **Mike Daniell** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:13 pm

Neil,

Importing and exporting is now available in RC3 of SCS 9.4. See the announcement in the General Forum regarding downloading this. I am hoping to have 9.4 on general release within about a week.

AudioBoyMA · Post by **AudioBoyMA** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:20 pm

Awesome, Daniel! I'm looking forward to using it.

Unfortunately, I've all ready had to make up the combined files for our upcoming show (I just edited the .scs xml files manually and changed the CueID #'s, which worked fine), but I will definitely use it for my Fall radio drama show, for which I will have to pull together 3 separate files.