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Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
I have noticed that if I highlight and cut a section out of one part of a guitar track and then paste it elsewhere in the track, I am actually copying the entire track over again. This is taking up large amounts of disk space and I was wondering if I am doing this wrong.
Basically, I am trying to cut or sometimes copy a guitar part section of a track into another location in the track (to compensate for a poor performance or a bad note). I would have thought that highlighting a section of a track and then copying just that section would only create an additional audio file on the HD that was the size of the cut piece rather than the entire track. HELP! |
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Re: Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
All editing performed in the Edit Window is non-destructive. Therefore, when you cut/copy/paste regions to different locations, Pro Tools is only using those regions as "pointers" to the source audio file.
As you can see in the Properties section, a Pro Tools session file is very small in comparison to an audio file (a few hundred kbytes compared to a few MB). Brent |
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Re: Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
Thanks Brent. I guess my question then is why is it necessary for PT to make a complete copy of the audio file each time there is an edit? If it is just pointers, why can't the pointers point to the same audio file? Or alternatively, shouldn't there be an option for destructive editing? Or better yet, maybe a function that "cleans-up" all unused portions of an audio file and just keeps the bits that are highlighted by the pointers. That would save HUGE on disk space no?
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Re: Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
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Re: Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
Right- the thing that looks like a new file- a new region- is a definition of the parameters of the file: (starts here, ends here) that shows up in the regions list, as does new audio files, which is why it's easy to think they are new wave files but they aren't.
That was the aspect of Cool Edit Pro that would drive me nuts. Everything you did created a duplicate file. |
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Re: Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
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Re: Cut and paste sections of tracks on edit page
Thanks all of you. As usual, the DUC comes through with the straight poop. I guess it was all those damn regions in the regions list that was throwing me off.
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