Saving sessions

[Steven John]

Greetings,
I am needing some advice concerning saving sessions on my cd rom. I am not able to find
a way to link my protools to my cd burner that is on board my G4. My hard drive is almost full
and I purchased some re-writeable cd's in hopes to save sessions on individual disks. I am not
too familiar with the G4 but should'nt I have the cd rom listed in my choices in the "save as"
option? Is saving sessions on cd from my cd rom even possible or do I need an external drive?

Perplexed,
Steven

[Mr T]

Back up can't be done "in" PT... It has to be done using softs such as Toast. Just drag and drop your session and associated audiofiles (+fade files) in Toast (choose "Mac files and folders"options) and you're done.

[where02190]

For sessions that are too large to fit on one CD, splitting the audio files folder into separate folders is ok. To open a session that have been saved to disc, first copy it back to your audio hard drive, resote all the audio files to the Audio files folder, and open the copy, not from the CD.

Always back up 2x, never rely on only one back-up.

[ckerian]

sounds like he needs to insert a CD and let diskburner format it so it appears as a disk on his dektop. then at that point he should be able to see the disk from save as. i would use the toast method myself. keep in mind that cd burning usually requires at least 650 megs available on the hard drive to be able to burn the disk so it can create it's disk image or temp file.

[Steven John]

thanks for all of the info. I don't have toast but I do have the iTunes that came with the G4 which I use to burn my audio cd's.. could this work as well?

Steve

[nutshell]

you format the CD for Mac Files...
then you just drag/drop your files to the CD icon and choose burn form the finder
hope that helps
dan