Export PARTS of a recording as new session: possible?

[dvdr]

Sorry, kind of stupid and stuck:

3 hour live multitrack recording. I put markers at the beginning and end of the 4 songs, that should be kept for later editing/mixing. Already have done some basic editing to these 4 songs (fader automation, plugins, aux-routing to effects etc.). I do want to keep the original session intact, so I am looking for a way to do the following for each of the 4 songs individually:

- select only ONE song (between the markers)
- export the selected region as a new session including all of the basic editing done so far
- and: only export the required part of the audio into the new session and not end up exporting 3 hours of multitrack-audio each time for each song (strip unnecessary audio, so to say, during each individual export of each song)
- select the NEXT song and export as another new session as described above.

Later on, I can load each "song-session" and finish it individually.

As I said: just stupid and stuck and not getting it done - any help is most appreciated!

[Stig Eliassen]

I've done it a couple times, and I simply used Save As, and named each new session appropriately. So, all sessions referenced the same audio files.

You can then cut what you don't need, and do a Save Copy In for backups, etc.

[dvdr]

Good idea - as long as I stay on my computer. Any idea, when I want to pass the songs on to others to work on them? That's how I came up with the "export session" idea, because it contains all my initial project information, but just the needed (small -audio- parts of the) files...
If I could just select any part between to markers and then "export to session" without any huge steps in between would make my life so much easier ;-)

[Stig Eliassen]

Use Save As > cut/trim as needed > Save Copy In. It's not so complicated as it sounds, and with Save Copy In, PT generates new files, so PT no longer reference the original session files.

[Stig Eliassen]

Naturally, you need to check which items to copy.