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Old 05-29-2009, 05:08 PM
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Default Split tracks to multiple drives for high density editing sessions?

When doing beat detective sometimes there are thousands of edits and fade files and things get really sluggish by the end.

What's the best way to split the tracks to 2 drives?

Or how do I get pro tools to NOT copy the tracks to the session folder when I import them?
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Old 05-30-2009, 06:29 AM
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Default Re: Split tracks to multiple drives for high density editing sessions?

I tried this last night:
put 7 tracks on drive E and 8 tracks on drive D, session file on D. Seemed fine until I started adding fade files which I guess all get put on drive D. so the drive still needs to be in too many places at once.
The result was the same as all tracks on one drive.

The Fade files folder is 30MB and 14,602 files.
AIFF, 48kHz, 24 bit. session.

Both drives are Seagate Barracuda SATA
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Old 06-03-2009, 04:49 PM
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Default Re: Split tracks to multiple drives for high density editing sessions?

Couple of things. Set your autosave to something higher than the default 5 minutes. I usually set mine at 15 minutes. All those regions and fade take a long time to save, so it's best autosave as little as possible.

Also, I consolidate as I go. When I'm BD'ing drums, I'll work on 8-16 bars, then duplicate the playlist, then consolidate all my edits on the duplicate playlist. Then I'll work on the next 8-16 bars, duplicate, consolidate, rinse, lather, repeat.
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Old 06-05-2009, 10:55 AM
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Default Re: Split tracks to multiple drives for high density editing sessions?

Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, it's just Setup/Disk Allocation. Every other track assigned to the other drive, I guess, whatever you need.

If it's copying files of the session sample rate and bit depth, there's a pref for that. I've never had it automatically copy. To get them to come in on the right drive, setup empty tracks, assign half of them to the alt drive, and do a little processing of a small region on a track assigned to the alt drive. That will create the session and audio folders on the alt drive. Then move the audio you want on those tracks into that new audio folder, then drag them and drop them from that folder to their respective tracks.
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Old 06-06-2009, 11:23 AM
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Default Re: Split tracks to multiple drives for high density editing sessions?

With disk allocation the fade files will still be stored one of the drives, not on each. The only thing that would possibly help is a faster drive like a SSD.

I just don't want to have to consolidate the session until I am finished. Seems to be unavoidable.
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Old 06-08-2009, 07:15 AM
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With disk allocation the fade files will still be stored one of the drives, not on each.
I've never seen that. It always puts the fade files for a given track on the drive that track is assigned to.
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Old 06-08-2009, 09:06 AM
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I see what you're saying, I have to trick PT into thinking that I've recorded to the secondary drive, while I've only just imported audio.
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