CD Burning

[Scotty]

Hi everyone, I have been doing this the same way for a long time, in other words, recording, editing, and mixing in PT, then bouncing files, converting, and opening Toast to burn my master. Is there a better/faster way? I recently had to read in 44 mixes in real time, bounce, convert and then write them all to a CD, and it took forever! Any kind words would be appreciated. I've looked elsewhere on the board, found nothing like this which surprises me.

[KingTor]

if your session is 44.1 instead of 48, adaptec jam will let you burn the CD from a pair of SDII files instead of an interleaved stereo file -- as long as the files are the same length, have the same title and end in ".L" and ".R" (case sensitive). sadly, I don't think that toast does this.

this doesn't necessarily save you any time, since you'd probably have to rerecord the mix into PT instead of bouncing as a stereo file.... but it's what I do when I'm just editing stereo files and making CDs of them because using audiosuite duplicate is much faster than real time.

[Scotty]

Thanks King Tor, unfortunately, I run at 48k, we're a post house, so I guess I'll continue to bounce and convert. I even have Peak to work with stereo files alone, but with Digi hardware, only split mono files are supported; bummer.

[editor]

Scotty,

As you know another drag is that the AVID SR conversion is horrible. Slows everything down and you cannot trust Avid SR conversion....click pop, glitch.

I stay at 48k in PT for post and burn SDII stereo files to a CD-ROM, not a 44.1 red book CD. Then import these 48k SDII files into the Avid with no SR conversion. I would rather receive SDII files @ 48k for quick avid import and use, then any other format. Stay 48k all the way for post if possible.

Regards

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[This message has been edited by editor (edited July 17, 2000).]

[KingTor]

yeah, I work at 48 and stay there until I go to make a CD for the client. generally I rerecord my mix onto two tracks of PT and use WaveConvert to make 44.1 files, then burn the CD in Jam. time consuming, but it works.

[Scotty]

Thanks guys, sounds like we're all in the same boat. I was trying to find a less time consuming method, given that sometimes my CD's have 20, 30, or 40 tracks on them, for different commercial versions. Oh well, looks like I'll keep doing as I have.