1 1 GETTING STARTED Getting Started The Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-In is designed for revolutionary Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec now makes this the real-time auditioning, encoding and decoding of audio possible, and includes the Pro-Codec Manager – a signals by the Fraunhofer codecs.
1 Installing the iLok Licence Manager GETTING STARTED Activating Your Licence The Pro-Codec requires that the licence ‘NATFPCG5’ is The iLok Licence Manager application must be installed on activated to a 2nd Generation iLok. To activate your licence, your computer in order to use the Pro-Codec Plug-In and sign into the iLok Licence Manager application, connect Manager. You can download this from www.ilok.com your iLok, and drag the licence onto it.
2 2 2.1 THE PRO-CODEC PLUG-IN – AUDITIONING CODECS IN REAL-TIME The Pro-Codec Plug-In – Auditioning Codecs in Real-time Auditioning and Comparing Codecs To copy codec settings to a new row, just Alt + click and drag an existing codec row to an empty row. To remove a codec, click the red ’X’ that appears when the cursor is over a codec row.
2.2 Metering 2.2 2.2.1 2 THE PRO-CODEC PLUG-IN – AUDITIONING CODECS IN REAL-TIME signal it can sound significant; however, the very nature of a Metering perceptual coder is that this difference signal should be inaudible (i.e. masked by the output signal). A user can FFT Display choose to trade off more data compression (and smaller files) against increased audibility of artefacts and codec-induced noise. Theory states that this codec-induced noise should be inaudible when the NMR indicator is green.
2.2 Metering 2.2.4 2 THE PRO-CODEC PLUG-IN – AUDITIONING CODECS IN REAL-TIME Bitstream Levels Any form of filtering can, under certain circumstances, the input to the encoder, and removed after the decoder, to increase the level of the signal. If your input is hot, this can allow for equal loudness signal comparison and difference potentially produce overloads when the signal is decoded. signal calculation.
2.3 2.3 A-B and A-B-X Testing 2 THE PRO-CODEC PLUG-IN – AUDITIONING CODECS IN REAL-TIME A-B and A-B-X Testing Both A-B auditioning and A-B-X testing are provided in the plug-in. To switch between the two modes, click the small down-arrow on the A-B/A-B-X tab. For both modes, click an LED in the A or B column to assign a codec to the A or B audition channel. If desired, the input signal can be assigned to the B channel instead of a codec, by clicking the I/P LED.
2.4 2.4 Encoding Files to Disk in Real-Time 2 THE PRO-CODEC PLUG-IN – AUDITIONING CODECS IN REAL-TIME Encoding Files to Disk in Real-Time Sometimes it may be desirable to quickly write an encoded file (or files) to disk in real-time during playback. Record-Ready Recording in progress! To encode a file in real time, you first have to record enable By default, the encoded file(s) will be written to: the codec. To do this, just enable a codec’s ARM button. Mac: Then enable the MASTER RECORD button.
3 3 3.1 THE PRO-CODEC MANAGER – OFFLINE PROCESSING The Pro-Codec Manager – Offline Processing Overview Click to add metadata to be written to the encoded files. Audio files in the selected folder will be displayed here. Click to select a file to encode. Command+Click (Mac) or Control+Click (Win) to select multiple files, or Shift+Click to select a range of files. If an MP3 or M4A file is selected, click Write to File to write the metadata to that file immediately.
3.2 Batch Processing 3.2 3 THE PRO-CODEC MANAGER – OFFLINE PROCESSING Batch Processing It is possible to select multiple files in the File List, for decoder output format selector, there are necessary encoding/decoding to the same output format(s). To select restrictions on the types of files that can be selected multiple files: simultaneously: 1.
3.3 3.3 Level Correction 3 THE PRO-CODEC MANAGER – OFFLINE PROCESSING Level Correction When encoding, enable ClipSafe to prevent your encoded Normalise can also be enabled during encoding and files from producing overloads in the playback system. Of decoding to ensure that the level of the resulting file is as course, if your files have been correctly prepared using the close to 0 dBFS as possible. Pro-Codec Plug-In, this will not be necessary.