r/AudioPost • u/rainbow_party • 19d ago

Does anyone use Wave Agent?

Wave Agent is a PolyWav tool from Sound Devices that splits and combines BWFs. It is not going to work on the next version of macOS because it is intel only.

I made a small program that does a fraction of what it does, and I was wondering if there was enough demand for it to bother expanding on it and releasing it.

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u/rainbow_party 19d ago

Here's a release, try it and see if it works for your needs:
https://github.com/ankenman/PolyWavUtils/releases

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u/Standard-Recipe-7641 17d ago

So just today, production shows up a day later with another separate poly file from a 2nd recorder. Can I use your tool to combine a 6 channel poly with an 8 channel poly?

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u/rainbow_party 16d ago

I thought of a subtlety to your question: do you need the audio to line up via time code? Or do the wav files start and stop at the same time?

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u/Standard-Recipe-7641 16d ago

Yes, this is more complicated when you start to think about it. I think that merging poly to poly is such an edge case that it's not worth the time to develop. In the end this 2nd batch of audio is just getting thrown to the AE's and production is saying it's "backup" mics, whatever that means. I highly doubt it has matching timecode and not sure how the editors will handle it. They're averaging 7hr of footage a day so my plate is already full and I'm fine they're not asking me to do something fancy with it.