I just donated to both Reapack and SWS. It wasn't much money but I wanted to try and help them or these guys out. These are great add on's and they made them free which I have used for a while.
I was getting super annoyed about FFMpeg, it was not showing up even though people made it look so easy. Thankfully, your video actually showed all the steps. Remember peeps, shared ffmpeg. Not the other one. That threw me.
Correction: It is possible to export h.264 mp4 in windows, you just have to type *.mp4 file extension at the end of the file name when selecting the "QT/MOV/MP4" format!!! Not obvious! However i found that the video codec setting at 100% is only about 4Mbps @ 1080p/30fps. If I set this to 300%, then this gets to about 8Mbps, which i believe is right for youtube, etc. All very counter-intuitive, but hopefully can save others time investigating.
I knew it was possible to export in h.264 from Reaper, but I've never taken the time to figure it out. Thanks to you video, I now have that option available, and I'm so excited! Can't thank you enough!
thanks for the Tutorial, i've been using REAPER for a few years now & didn't know about the Video Extension etc., sometimes it's difficult to follow the instructions as the screen is a bit blurry, one cannot always see where one has to see click in the initial menu to get from A to B. anyways, my REAPER installation did have a little more in the vlc field under Preferences, i kept it that way. also, the User Plugins folder was not empty. once i installed the SWS there was a message about a conflict with something in the User Plugins folder, i deleted the old files, re-started REAPER & the meassage was gone. i wasn't happy about the old file deletion after all, created a "Backup" folder in the User Plugins folder, reinstated the old files & moved them to the Backup folder. re-started REAPER again to make sure it wasn't gonna touch the Backup folder, it worked so far. now i just have to test the Video options a bit.
Man, you are freaking amazing! Thank you! NO wonder my Reapack wasn't working! I put it in the directory I pointed preferences>VST to in the paths section. I didn't realize the dll needs to be in my user plugins. I'll try that, and if it doesn't work, I'll comment again so you all can help me further.
Imagine that, exactly the right video at the right time! Thank you! 🙏 Win10 to install this in a Portable Install? The .exe wants to install on c:\ must be pointed to the main Reaper on your portable drive. I pointed it to the (example) F:\Reaper. Works just fine, nice and easy on WIN10.
I'm having trouble getting permission to use the sws extensions on a mac with catalina; I've tried changing permissions and using "sudo xattr -d" but nothing seems to work. I also tried dragging it into the "Developer Tools" section of Security&Privacy ("allow the apps below to run software locally that does not meet the system's security policy"). Edit: nevermind, finally found the checkbox to "open anyway" in Security&Privacy settings.
In my browse of the comments below, I don't see anyone mention that the FFMPEG site has shut down. I did find mention on forum.cockos.com of a set on OTTverse: ottverse.com/ffmpeg-builds/ I hope this is okay.
@@TheREAPERBlog Haha thanks idk why YT recommended this one first in my search. I also laughed when I heard that you won't really need it for mac. I should have never paused the vid and searched for the link lol Thanks again I just found your channel.
I don't know if anyone can help me but, I updated my mac and now my sws extension doesn't work. Downloaded it again, followed the steps, but the extensions window won't show up. Any advice???
@@pvrigna open reaper, Options menu, at the bottom 'show reaper resource folder'. In there is userplugins folder. Quit reaper before making changes there.
I created a color for "Guitar" in the extensions and it Colored tracks with "Guitar Lead", "Guitar Rhythm" etc but not Guitar alone. I inadvertently typed in a space after Guitar and it took a while to figure out what I did. Fuzzy Logic perhaps.
I downloaded the VLC video player installed and run the app it sounds great and the video was not choppy very smooth now when pointing to reaper to use it I restarted up Reaper and now I see video but not hearing any audio help Thanks
OK. But can you help me? I can't deal with sidechain channels. Let's say I make a sidechain from kick to bass on virtual channels 3-4 and make a sidechain from lead to pad on channels 3-4 too. Will the kick affect the pad or the lead affect on the bass? Or are these 3-4 virtual channels unique for each message? Thanks!
With a Mac just use homebrew to install FFMPEG. Homebrew knows where to put stuff on its own, no need to fuss around with it manually edit: another thing I've just seen: chances are that all you need to do is create a "lib" directory in your user's home directory and put the stuff there. I still think that homebrew is the preferable solution
Having serious problem the dmv file only has a dylb file in it and doesnt have any component(s) or anything to install reapack >:( trying a lot to get this figured out
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Is it possible you can show how to do this in linux?
I have a .wav file track I've recorded a long time ago but I lost the DI track. What I want to do, it`s to convert that file to a DI in order to change ( amp, Fx...).
I think I found the issue on windows there is no FFmpeg.dll in the shared ffmeg we downloaded. If you look in C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\Plugins you will see that there is a dll called FFmpeg.dll. I am looking for that file to put into the user folder. Look in the bin folder you downloaded it's not there.
Correction this is the file avcodec-58.dll and it need to be int the root of C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\UserPlugins not in a folder. Just copy all of the shared files from the bin folder to your C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\UserPlugins
@@midiman5045 HI Midi Man. The files that I should put inside my user plugins folder are all of the files which are inside the SHARE folder, even the .exe ones??? including the 3 .exe files are 11 elements, doesn't it? Thanks in advanced!
Hi Jon! Really thanks for your video. I have one question! In windows Instalation: . The files that I should put inside my user plugins folder are all of the files which are inside the SHARE folder, even the .exe ones??? including the 3 ".exe" files are 11 elements, doesn't it? Until Now, I used to uses only five of them. - avcodec-xx.dll - avformat-xx.dll - avutil-xx.dll - swresample-x.dll - swscale-x.dll Thanks in advanced! javi.
Installed Sws-extension and there is no Extension option for me. Any ideas? I installed it in a valid folder (otherwise I wouldn't be able to click next button) and checked if sws file added to UserPlugins and it is there
I'm having the same problem. Reinstalled them all and still no extensions tab. Did you ever figure out how to fix it? Google search is leading me nowhere.
If you want to install SWS through ReaPack, so that all your REAPER extensions are managed via ReaPack, and if you’re running macOS, here’s a workaround for you: github.com/leafac/reaper/raw/master/sws.xml Just go to Extensions > ReaPack > Import repositories…, then paste the URL above and install the package.
I don't know if this is a potential issue in Mac as well, but I had a hard time finding out the cause of sync issue when an external ffmpeg lib was installed. Have a look into forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=232960 and be cautious.
hello, thank you very much your contributions are incredible, i'm a new reaper user and i'm doing a static mix and, everything is fine, but when i do the same static mix in cakewalk by bandlab it is heard with more body and more present, the question is that i use a plugin called bitter to determine the bits, and in reaper it tells me in the level scale about 64 bits and in cakewalk 32 bits, I don't know why it is the same in both, what I would like to know is why the difference of sonority in reaper is heard better for my ears, more balanced and defined but in its turn thinner and less fat, your answer would clarify my understanding and I would appreciate it in my soul, thank you.
Thanks John. My Extensions drop down menu does not show all the detail you have. i only show a REPack subfolder with the manage repositories /synchronize drop downs.
Searched and couldn't find the exact thing to make it work. I'm scoring to film. I have the video with embedded audio on track one. How do I get it to ignore play rate changes and play at its original speed no matter what I change the play rate to. Thanks for any assistance!
8 hrs gone and I can't get any of this to work on my windows machines. ReaPack gives you a dll but doesn't install it where it belongs like every other reaper download seems to with windows. I've tried putting it in every FX folder and nothing works. It doesn't show up in SWS extensions.. Is this a reaper/ mac only thing? Are there simple VST dll versions of the of the available JS scripts if I want to blow off or get around ReaPack? I'm just trying to get JS "midi gate" and i don't care about all the other stuff. Thanks.
I installed Reaper 6.13 on a new 2020 imac and installed VLC 3.0.11.1 but the video viewer option is missing from Reaper preferences / view (command V according to your video) and doesn't visually play any video placed in a reaper track. You can hear it but not see it. Where is the (command v) option? - can you help?
One question. I'm on Windows. I see there is now a 4.2.3 version of FFMPEG...did you specify 4.2.2 because it was the newest at the time the video was made? Or are there bugs with 4.2.3, and I should use the older version. THANKS!
4.2.2 was newest at the time of recording. Damn the whole website is different today only a month later. The blog post that goes with this video has screenshots and more info.
Hi,"ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds" cannot be opened. Is there any other place to download this plugin? Thank you very much! It would be even better if the official can integrate this plug-in, which is basically a must.
From Midi Man above - the files you downloaded in the bin folder (the .dll's) need to go into the root \UserPlugins folder from the resource path. If they're still in the bin folder, reaper won't see them.
@@dsbassman4184 In my bin folder they're not .dll for some reason? They're just .exe? I placed it to the userplugins folder and I think I did it right, but the h264 extension isn't there.
@@joshmontederamos4813 Maybe .dll files considered hidden files by your Windows browser by default, and you need to allow Windows explorer to display this type of file
hi Jon, this link is dead : ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds could you provide another FFMPEG ressources ? I'm using this one, it seems to work : github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases
@@TheREAPERBlog Thanks for the clarification about H.265. Also that VLC was only used for decoding is new to me. Hopefully one day Reaper will be integrated with handbrake that would be the best i think.
Hi Jon, I hope this is not going to be much of an awkward question, but.. I managed to install all the extensions - sws and reapack - and _none_ of the reapack scripts actually work. I made everything according to the guides and whenever I run any of those scripts (for example one of xrayms randomize scripts), I get an error like this: "Warning: @import could not open '../Functions/spk_slider_class.eel' X-Raym_Randomize take pitch (normal distribution with GUI).eel:142: 'm.slider' undefined: 'mean = ( m.slider(20, 20, 6, m.val, -12, 12, gfx_w - 30, 0))' " --- any ideas where the problem could be?... I am new to Reaper and to all the scripts by the way. thank you!
pretty sure that's saying "spk_slider_class.eel" is required and not installed. I don't recommend scripts individually as you often run into these dependencies. Just install all of ReaTeam repo and it should work.
Sound of grown man crying… can’t get the ReaPack in my plugins folder. SWS went in easy, my new Alienware m18 doesn’t act exactly like either of the videos I’ve watched on this. You make great videos tho.