Making new sessions out of one session with numerous takes

[Thenewexhibit]

I kind of asked this question before, but that was in regard to a live recording that pretty much just had one take per song. I know you can "Save Session Copy In" and choose "Selected Tracks" and or "Selected Timeline Range Only", and that will work for the selected area. However, another recording I did recently has multiple takes within the same session--not in a row--and spread out.

So my question would be: Since I need the multiple takes for every song in one session (making new session duplicates based on the amount of files and songs would just take up too much unnecessary space), would doing "Save Session As" be a good option for this? Essentially save the session as the Song Name, delete everything I don't need in the session except the multiple takes for that song, and line them up on different playlists, and then go back to the master session, Save As the new song title, and do that again for the next song, and so on, etc?

OR, I could open the master session, delete all of the songs I don't need and keep only the takes for the song I need, then save copy in with the selected audio files only, close that master session without saving, and then reopen it and do that for every song. Perhaps that would be a better way of doing things?

Thoughts?

[pbthias]

Not in front of Pro Tools right now, but I remember it being possible to save as copy + the selected timeline + only link audio (not copy!).
Pretty sure that's how I handled a bigger recording project a few weeks ago...

[tope d]

Originally Posted by Thenewexhibit

I kind of asked this question before, but that was in regard to a live recording that pretty much just had one take per song. I know you can "Save Session Copy In" and choose "Selected Tracks" and or "Selected Timeline Range Only", and that will work for the selected area. However, another recording I did recently has multiple takes within the same session--not in a row--and spread out.

So my question would be: Since I need the multiple takes for every song in one session (making new session duplicates based on the amount of files and songs would just take up too much unnecessary space), would doing "Save Session As" be a good option for this? Essentially save the session as the Song Name, delete everything I don't need in the session except the multiple takes for that song, and line them up on different playlists, and then go back to the master session, Save As the new song title, and do that again for the next song, and so on, etc?

OR, I could open the master session, delete all of the songs I don't need and keep only the takes for the song I need, then save copy in with the selected audio files only, close that master session without saving, and then reopen it and do that for every song. Perhaps that would be a better way of doing things?

Thoughts?

another thing you can try if you're on the latest versions is to put each take in a folder which you can hide and expand anytime.

[Rich Breen]

Originally Posted by Thenewexhibit

...Essentially save the session as the Song Name, delete everything I don't need in the session except the multiple takes for that song, and line them up on different playlists, and then go back to the master session, Save As the new song title, and do that again for the next song, and so on, etc?...

Yeah, this is prob'ly the best way if you don't want to re-save the audio. Be *certain* you don't delete audio! Just "remove" unused from the session. Personally when I've had to do this I like to do the "Save As" into a new folder with the new session name and change Disk Allocation to the new folder - that way any new audio (bounces, mix prints, ARA renders) generated for that song ends up in its own session folder. At the end you'll have a "Supersession" folder and individual session folders for each song.

[pbthias]

So if I understand correctly: you have several songs, with multiple takes.
But those are not in an order like:
Song 1 T1 - Song 1 T2 - Song 1 T3 - Song 2 T1 - Song 2 T2 - Song 3 T1 -....
but more like:
Song 1 T1 - Song 2 T1 - Song 1 T2 + T3 - Song 3 T1 - Song 2 T2....?

In that case doing a Save As way as descibed by Rich Breen is most likely the best way to go.

If they are in an order that you could do a timeline selection you would do a "Save Session Copy in..." with only Selected Time Range and de-select "Audio Files". And just save in the same folder as the original session. That way you'd end up with a Session for each song, all sharing the same audio folder thus saving space.