Session Consolidation

[Don Geppert]

Just wondering the correct way to do this.

I have a large session occupying about 10GB of disc space. It was a large orchestra, (22 mics) plus 60 voice choir all with a ton of non destructive punch in's etc.

What is the best and quickest way to:

1) Make each track one region, (consoldidate or duplicate? is there a difference and/or preference?)

2) Make a new Session Folder containing only the audio files used in the final session file plus the final session file. Is this done with the "Save Session Copy in" option?

[jimlongo]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Don Geppert:
Just wondering the correct way to do this.

What is the best and quickest way to:

1) Make each track one region, (consoldidate or duplicate? is there a difference and/or preference?)

2) Make a new Session Folder containing only the audio files used in the final session file plus the final session file. Is this done with the "Save Session Copy in" option?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There are a few ways to do it.

You could "select unused regions" (shift-command-u) then "remove selected regions" (shift-command-b) and select remove not delete. Then select all audio and "compact audio" in the region bin menu. This will destructively rewrite the audio files to keep only the used portions (with user adjustable handles). Finally "save copy in" and copy all audio files will give you a session with just the required compacted audio files.

OR you could consolodate all the regions into one long file (duplicate will just duplicate each region I believe
), then "save session copy in" and copy audio.

Or you could bounce all tracks, if you have any crossfades, processing or automation, but this seems kind of tedious.

I'd vote for method 1 unless there is a real reason you want each track to be continuous.

Good luck, a Student from '74

[Kev]

Bouncing tracks is very tedious but one advantage of this is...

you get individual tracks of equal length and files size and so is very easy to rebuild on any system and any software on any platform as log as it imports SDII files. I archive all of my important stuff like this.

You could archive in both WAV and SDII. Remember nothing exists digitally unless it exists in at least two places..... or three!