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Re: Deleting unused files?
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So what you want to do is set up an AUX track for the speech mic and route it straight to your master outputs. Then just stop recording once band stops playing and restart when the speech is ending. Depending on your buffers, it makes a small click when you restart, but it's very hard to notice if you have a good timing (find a half a second pause and mute the PA while you restart -- three clicks total, or if you don't care about a small click then just restart and don't care). Or if there is a good half a minute pause between band coming off and pastor coming in, and vice versa, you could just stop recording, alt-click record enable button to disable all tracks, then click on the speech track, and record only that track while the band is on coffee. Then reverse the setting once band comes in. Nobody notices few clicks if there is noise anyway. But yeah, those empty tracks keep wasting space. Good for you to get them compacted :) Janne
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As far as stuffing hard drives with with useless data goes, the most commun mistake I see is people who when they're tracking, instead of "undoing", select the unwanted clips and delete them (real world thinking : I don't see them, they don't exist). This removes them from the screen but not from the audio files folder (typically, their sessions shrink by half when I clean them). This is not necessarily a bad idea as it gives you a trash bin to dig in if you need little bits to patch up a part. But for that, I personnaly prefer to use the playlists to keep one or more parts that are not ideal but could be uselful for editing purposes.
So when recording, I tend to clean all the time with the cmd+shift+u - cmd+shift+b commands... PT keeps all the files it's using in the session and only deletes the ones it's not using AT ALL, so it's absolutely safe to do that as long as you have only one session file (or multiple mixing sessions files, all using the exact same clips). If I have to track multiple new instruments when the mixing is already started, I tend to create a new light "recording" session without the alternate playlists just for that, and then import the tracks in the original session. |
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In the menu of the clip/region that opens on the right of the edit windows, you'll find a "compact files" function that allows to shorten (all or a selection of) the clips to the length that you're actually using. In the process, it'll ask how long you want the handles (poignées in french) to be, which is extra length. I do that when I'm done mixing a movie, as for every laughs, steps, explosion, whosh, etc... I often import a file containing many of them, lasting for a few useless minutes... |
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Merci bien mups. I am aware of both of those features, but that is not what is happening here. The whole files were deleted from my regions list on the right side of the PT screen, and I did ask PT to Delete them from disk. However, they are still on my hard drive.
I will keep trying. |
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Then either pull them out and open the session to make sure nothing is missing, or simply "save copy in, with audio files" and trash the original session folder... |
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"Select unused Clips" (Ctrl+Shift+U) and "Clear selected Clips" (Ctrl+Shift+U) is part of my workflow. After tracking, comping, clip editing and audiosuit rendering for hours virtually hundreds/thousands of files are created in the audio folder. Personally i find it messy and like to tidy things up with select and clear as mentioned above and then consolidate. Consolidation makes it easier to copy or move regions around. Clips worth saving i keep in a playlist track.
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When I record, and then undo, the clip disappears from my clips list. But it stays in the audio files folder. This is a problem because when I tell pt to select unused clips, it doesn't find the ones I used undo on, and so will not delete them. Does this happen to anyone else? Is the only way to create a copy of the session?
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Command + period if you want to make it like it never happened. Have to do it while still tracking.
(dangerous command in the wrong hands) |
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