Extra Space End of Tracks

[sslechta]

When I bounce out an MP3 or WAV from my song sessions, that file quite often ends up with about 30 seconds of blank space at the end.

I've been trying to find ways to bring up the end time in the session to avoid this but have come up blank.

The actual clips in the session have no blank space at the end that I can tell.

Any ideas on things I can look at? Thanks! Version 12.7, Win 10 PC

Steve

[Sparky1]

Try selecting/highlighting only the audio you require - then bounce your song...

This should give only the audio selected in the final bounce...

Sparky

[sslechta]

Thanks for the quick response Sparky. Sounds like that would work. I'll give it a try on the next mix.

If anyone has any ideas on preventing this before bouncing, let me know.

Thanks again!

[Tim Ripley]

Ideas? You've already been given the answer. Are you looking for another way to do it?

[Stig Eliassen]

I use two selection memory locations in every session. #50 is print/bounce, #51 is export - always.

[sslechta]

Originally Posted by Tim Ripley

Ideas? You've already been given the answer. Are you looking for another way to do it?

Tim, that sounded more like a work around to getting the song ending printed to the export correctly. I was trying to find a way to just export and have it come out correct without having to perform a selection.



I'll take a look at Stig's response for memory locations as well.

[DJ Hellfire]

Originally Posted by Tim Ripley

Ideas? You've already been given the answer. Are you looking for another way to do it?

The reason he is asking is because even without selecting the bounce selection, Pro Tools should only bounce to the end of the longest clip.

To the OP, make sure there are no automation break points or anything after your clips. I think that would cause this to happen. But the simplest way of avoiding this is to do as suggested and just highlight the length of what exactly you want to bounce.

[sslechta]

Originally Posted by Stig Eliassen

I use two selection memory locations in every session. #50 is print/bounce, #51 is export - always.

Thanks Stig. That seemed to work. I set a selection memory location then when I need to bounce, I just recall it.

Originally Posted by DJ Hellfire

Pro Tools should only bounce to the end of the longest clip. Make sure there are no automation break points or anything after your clips.

Hellfire, thanks for the suggestion. I switched all my tracks to volume and pan automation views and could not find anything that sticks out past the length of the longest clip file. I guess I'm still stumped as to what generates all that extra space.

I'll just stick with the memory location trick and not worry about it anymore.

[PMF Media]

To the best of my knowledge, if you DON'T set a range - with either marker or the cursor tool - PT will simply bounce from the start of your session to the end of your session because that's what you've told it you want to do. By "Tabbing" to the beginning of the very first clip in your session and selecting a range from there to the end of your last clip (allowing for any FX tail of course) PT will bounce only between the start and end of the selection.

Hope this helps.