Splitting One long recording

[dmbpettit]

I recorded my friend show last night and now I have a 3 1/2 hour project. I would like to cut it up into individual songs. Do I just set markers for the beginning and ending of songs?

[MikeTrahearn]

Hi dmbpettit,

How did you record the show? As separate tracks or as a stereo mix?
Here's some possible solutions depending on what you did:

In all cases, markers will help you enormously.

Make markers for Begin-Song1 End-Song1 etc. To make a selection using markers, open the markers window and select the Begin-... marker and shift click the End-... marker. This should select everything on every track between the markers.

A really neat extension of this is to make the selection and create a new marker of "selection" type and name the marker "song1" etc.

Next time you click "song1" in the marker window, song1 will be selected from your track(s).

a) - Single Stereo Mix:

Locate the start/end of each song and make a region separation at both ends either manually or using the markers methods above.

You can now rename the region between the start and end of the separated region as "Song1" etc .. for each song. You'll end up with lots of auto created regions though, so don't let them confuse you.

bi) - Multiple tracks:

When locating the separator point for the start and end of a song, you can put the selector tool at the separation position and shift-select the other tracks - this should place the selector tool in all the other tracks too. When you separate region, it'll separate on all tracks. Again, this is made easier by using selection markers. However you'll have loads of regions to rename.

bii) - Multiple tracks (edit group)

If you create an edit group of all your tracks, you can make edits on one track in the group and the operations are reflected on all tracks simultaneously without selecting each of the other tracks in the group. On making a separation, you'll still have to rename each new region on each track to show song name on that track.

biii) - Multiple tracks (region group)

If you create a region group of the whole show and call it "show" then you can cut the region group into 'songs' in the same way as in a) except the auto created regions either side of the region separation will be "show-01" and "show-03" and you can rename "show-02" (which is the bit you want) to Song-01 and so forth.
The advantage over this is that you don't have to rename every region in every track that makes up a song, you only have to rename the separated region group which spans all the tracks used in the song. This is made extra fast if you also use selection markers.

---So I guess the best way is---

Group all your tracks (if you have used multiple tracks) into a region group, and then use selection markers to help you select your songs within the recording.

Hope that helps? Sorry for the extensive answer, and for potentially confusing you

Mike

[dmbpettit]

Once I have selected a section which is song 1, how do I export it into its own wav file? Do I need to bounce to disk? Is there any other method that does not do it in real time?

[MikeTrahearn]

Ooh, no, you can do this neat little trick, well, it depends on whether you recorded multitrack or not:

Supposing you just recorded a very long stereo track, and you've sliced it up into regions and name them all something suitable, you can export region as file from the region list drop down menu where you can specify bit depth and sample rate for the export. Export is non realtime - its only a file split and convert afterall.

However, if you are down converting from a high sample rate and bit depth, you should consider using the POW-r dither plugin or Waves IDR (the DigiRack Dither is no good) to do the bit depth reduction for you (on the fly), and bounce to disk with the settings as you like, but using the "Tweak-head" sample rate conversion method. This will give the best results for CD-Audio playback. Export to file is not so nice as it doesn't do the dithering so well.

If you've got a multi tracked recording, there is no option but to bounce to disk as you need to first mix the audio together first, which can't be done in non-realtime. Again the discussion about dithering is applicable.

Mike

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Previous thread with directions

Rail

[stevethrewup]

I have some bad news. I purchased that same laptop for ProTools and found that the Intel Chipset is the problem. After trying everything I called HP sales about the problem and they were extremly helpful. They actually went to the Digidesign site and confirmed that the laptop was incompatible. They then sifted through their products and told me which ones would work and would work best. I ended up getting a Desktop but I've never had a problem with the thing running ProTools. Just call HP sales and be honest (tell them you bought it for ProTools) and they'll help you out.

Sorry lads but you'll get a PC that works.

S

P.S. DO NOT GET A DELL. I went through 3 Dell notebooks that didn't work before I went to HP.

[Phil Jeffers]

Hi, if you're referring to the dV8000 Notebook, a Digi Tech here on this very site said it should be fine. I have had to return 2 of these Notebooks because of system problems (unrelated to pro Tools) and I have to say that HP customer service was very poor IMHO. They were extremely friendly, but exceptionally unhelpful on technical matters. The laptops listed on Digi's website as 'compatible' is very out of date. If I could have bought one of these I would of; however it looked as if I would have had to purchase second hand to get a "supported" laptop, therefore the punt on this one after posting here first. I really hope you're wrong (if you're referring to the dV8000 series), because the actual computers are great... I just need to be able to run PT's without buffer errors every 10 seconds!

[DigiTechSupt]

The compatibility documents were updated a few weeks ago with information on current laptop and desktop computers that are compatible with Pro Tools.

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...gid=100&eid=27

[thenchel]

How do the 945 chipsets do? Wouldnt they be included with the compatible chipsets since the Dell Inspiron 9400 is listed and it runs the 945?

[PhilHall]

I'd love to see if there's an answer to the above question. BUMP.