Song transfer and timeline editing.

[chuckwow]

I transferred a reel of 24 track tape with several songs to a single ProTools session. When trying to split the songs up into their own unique folder I get the complete timeline for the whole reel instead of just the 3 or 4 minutes that the songs represents. Is there a way to export the individual songs without getting 30 minutes of timeline, or delete a portion of the timeline that is not part of the song?

[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by chuckwow

I transferred a reel of 24 track tape with several songs to a single ProTools session. When trying to split the songs up into their own unique folder I get the complete timeline for the whole reel instead of just the 3 or 4 minutes that the songs represents. Is there a way to export the individual songs without getting 30 minutes of timeline, or delete a portion of the timeline that is not part of the song?

Yes. You can separate the songs on the main clip using editing. Use the selector tool to highlight the song from start to finish and then separate the highlighted part. You can even rename the new clip to the individual song title if you wish. Once you've created a separate clip for each song, you can simply export each clip individually from the clip list and save them however you wish.

[albee1952]

That's the ticket, but I'll expound a little as I have done this many times. With all the tracks in what I would call the "master" session, enable the ALL group. Now make a folder for each song. In the master session, swipe across to highlight 1 song and hit B to separate clip(the ALL group will make the separation to all tracks). Then with the clips for any given song highlighted, use the Export Clips as Files command and export those clips to the folder you made for that song. Once you did this for each song, close the master session. Now create a new blank session for 1 song and import audio. Do some basic "housekeeping" stuff(like drop markers, name tracks) then get to mixing. You may find that you can get the first song to a good state and save that session as a template(without media). Then for each other song, create sessions from that template>import audio to the Clips Bin and drag each file to the track it belongs on(someone else may have a slicker way, but this is my method)

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thank you both for your suggestions. i will give them a try.
wish me luck since knowing me i can use it.

thanks again

[albee1952]

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