Did you ever wish you could have a powerful editor and an advanced batch-processor in a single application? Introducing Sound Grinder Pro, the best waveform editor and batch-processor combination ever available!

Building on the success of Sound Grinder, we have created Sound Grinder Pro to meet the advanced needs of the production community. From advanced metadata and file support to the new waveform editor, you will save yourself a significant amount of time in editing and processing tasks, and with full support for both Intel and PPC processors, you can be assured that your results are fast, efficient and rock solid!

Sound Grinder Pro was also built as a companion to your DAW workstation with advanced naming, metadata processing, and drag-n-drop importing into Pro Tools or other DAW software. Try Sound Grinder Pro today and you will see how it can make a difference in your production environment!

Waveform Editing
With its efficient design, you will quickly find your way around the editor, saving time in your editing tasks. Work with fades, loops and markers with an intuitive interface. You can also edit multi-channel audio and customize the editing environment to your liking.

Use the unique waveform overview to quickly navigate the audio and locate edits. Create and name regions for easy separation and exporting. Perform actions such as Normalize, Auto-Region, Auto-Trim, Apply Plugins, Change Sample Rate and much more.

Plug-in Processing
Batch-process your audio files through your favorite AU and VST plug-ins. Create a custom pipeline, preview your results before processing and create presets or Droplets to process your files with simple drag-n-drop.

High Quality MP3 including MP3 Surround
Sound Grinder Pro includes the powerful MP3 codec from Thomson/Fraunhofer. This new codec offers pristine conversion that is a must-have for audio production today. You can also create mono, stereo and 5.1 surround files in the MP3 format. In addition, we include the LAME MP3 codec for those die-hard producers to get the right compression for the job. Download the demo and hear the incredible clarity you can achieve with this new codec.

Metadata Processing
Todays content producer needs the ability to edit metadata data quickly and in large batches. To meet that need, we have included several powerfully efficient metadata tools. Copy the metadata from one file or move metadata from one tag to another, all in a single batch process.

Additional Processing
Process your files with these and many other time-saving features:
· Droplets: Create droplets for those repetitive tasks. Then simply drag and drop assets and they will be processed with your custom settings.
· Movie Preview: Preview the video track of video files, and process the audio while retaining the video track.
· Rapid Convert: Use Rapid Convert to activate the Sound Grinder Pro processing engine from the Finder, even using previously created presets.
· Process: Perform advanced file processing on your audio assets and then open them in another application. Change formats, apply normalizing, apply AU and VST plugins. Create presets for quick recall of common settings. Apply advanced naming schemes to the output files.

Here are some key features of "Sound Grinder Pro":

Power:
· Sophisticated processing engine for speed and stability.
· One window design.
· Customizable list view.
· Resizable control section.
· Rapid Convert providing in-Finder file conversion.
· Unattended processing mode.
· Multiple error logging levels.
· Unicode support.

Processing:
· Comprehensive conversion engine.
· Droplets for drag-n-drop processing.
· AU and VST plugin support.
· Multi-channel file support.
· RMS and Peak normalizing.
· Advanced naming options.
· User presets.
· "Retain Folder Structure" option.
· Naming options for Pro Tools compatibility with split audio files.
· Pull-up/pull-down sample rates.
· Custom sample rates.
· 31 character name limit support.

Waveform Editing:
· Mutli-channel editing.
· Movie Preview while editing.
· Waveform overview with advanced selection options.
· Sample-level editing
· Resizable channel waveform view
· Support for fades/loops/markers/regions.
· Auto-trimming.
· Auto-regioning with naming.
· Region exporting
· Comprehensive edit actions.

Metadata:
· Metadata batch-processing.
· Copy metadata from selection
· Support for Finder/Spotlight comments.
· Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, and Quicktime User Data.
· All metadata viewable in the list view.

Playback:
· Preview process settings.
· Full playback control including scrubbing.
· Playback slider.
· Loop playback.
· Quicktime movie video preview.

Requirements:

· Quicktime 6.4 or greater (Quicktime 6.5 is required for AMR Narrowband support), (Quicktime 6.5.1 is required for Apple Lossless support).
· 800 x 600 screen resolution.
· OS X 10.5 or greater required for AAC Low Delay

Limitations:

· 15 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed an issue with Excluding Metadata - Fixed an issue where selecting to exclude the Broadcast Extension: Description may still export something for this metadata field.
· Fixed an issue with reading text files - Fixed an issue where reading very long lines of text from text files could cause the text to be corrupted.
· Fixed issue with Commit Changes to Original File - Fixed an issue where performing commit changes to original file in an Edit Session would remove any metadata that was set in the Convert Session.
· Fixed an issue with opening a saved Edit Session - Fixed an issue where opening a saved Edit Session that contains audio other than stereo would not open.
· Fixed several issues with Region Spotting - Fixed several issues related to incorrect and extraneous actions occurring when various Region Spotting actions were triggered.
· Fixed an issue with naming interleaved output files when sourced from split files - Fixed an issue where in some cases, an output interleaved file would r...