Pro Tools Session Archiving

[jcche19]

Great Video men! Thanks a Lot! ... i just clicked your ads lol

[XXXO333]

does this save the audio files as if they were to run through the master fader, like if i had a compressor and limiter on the master track would it save the file running through that.. or is it just the dry audio that saves. thanks

[Pvtchrislee07]

i have a question my buddy sent me a session and his vocals that were collabing on is in the same folder and its hard for me to find the left channel and right channel vocals cause there not right next to each other is there a faster or better way i can put only his vocals in a folder and import them and the session

[khushalbhadra]

But after consolidation how to export all the tracks individually to take it to another DAW?

[BabexayLorinaaa552]

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[gwb911]

in logic u can select unused audio files > delete selected files. then the remaining files u can destructively crop to only keep on disc the parts of each sound file used in the audio regions. why do u want ur sound files bigger for ARCHIVING??? to export to other daw's is called making stems... g33k on that...

[shrivibhu]

guyss Pls use cubase 5..

it is very easy and useful!!

[eorroxsox]

I'm having so much trouble with live lite from ableton, which is just a form of pro tools. the level meeter isnt showing anything. does anyone know how to fix it?

[sjdtte]

so is this how you make your pro tools song into a mp3 format?

[audiogeekzine]

@sjdtte no, that would be the Bounce To Disk function.

This video is on archiving.

[WARRENB2006]

hello! what is a good matering tool and one more do u know anything about wireless keyboard cause mine don't let me space

[KriegerDesHasses]

An easier method would be to simply go to File > Save Copy in > Click All Audio Files > Save... rather than going through all of this mess...

[audiogeekzine]

@KriegerDesHasses Not the same thing.

That will copy all the unused files in the Audio Files folder, even the ones not actually used in the session.

Consolidated wav files is the only foolproof archiving format. With this method shown in the video you can open the files time aligned in any DAW years later, not just Pro Tools.

[KriegerDesHasses]

@audiogeekzine It would still open the files up in PT, so I fail to see the problem. I could fix the time alignment within minutes.

[audiogeekzine]

@KriegerDesHasses Believe it or not, Pro Tools isn't the only DAW out there. I use Pro Tools every day but no one knows if it will still be around even a year from now.

As a professional engineer this is how I expect sessions to be brought to me. This also follows the NARAS guidelines.

How exactly would you time align possibly hundreds of audio files in minutes? Post a video response.

My current mix has 518 audio files, that's just 1 song! If I consolidated each track there would be about 50

[philliphaehner11]

i was t o scared to try it

[headphones741]

how do u create a audio drive on windows vista anyone???

[audiogeekzine]

Connect another hard drive to the computer

[headphones741]

lol that wasnt helpful at all..thnx though

[johngreasy]

How do i email my vocals or session to another studio to be mixed and mastered?

[ademondh]

I need help...I bounced three and burned to a CD...now that I have went back into pro tools to open up the sessions I get an error saying missing files...I tried to automatically relink but it doesn't work...what can I DO...anyone??

[MGAVBRACE]

Can anybody explain in 'simple english' how I can send a Pro Tools session from one computer to another?

I have recorded my arrangement in midi and audio. In 'simple english' though?

[toDan421]

I just did this with a bunch of sessions, I just copied the session files and the wave files to a firewire drive then copied from there to a new computer.

You must copy the original wave files as well as the session files.

[johngreasy]

First off i appreciate the tutorial sir I have a question. I wanted to know if I can back up a session like you did to an audio disk. So the disk can be taken to another studio for mixing and mastering. So when I save it to a new location it will be saved onto a disk. That way the engineer mixing and mastering can open this up in his pro tools and have no problems. Just let me know if this is possible or if this theory is possible? thanks!!

[tr4vieso14]

hey after im done with my pro tools session how do i change it to mp3 and take it to itunes?

[omgpiperrr]

There's a program you can buy for like $20 that bounces it straight to an MP3. Otherwise, you have to burn a CD and upload it into your iTunes.

[spinecraft]

indeed, this is a method i use regularly.

should be noted that this consolidation does not include any live plugins when opening those wav's in other programs.

this requires bus'ing any applicable tracks to new ones, recording the bus'ed input from the same starting point.

cheers.

[jacobsiostrom]

hey dude what is it called that thing you do??

im using PC and ctrl+alt+3 aint working!

[audiogeekzine]

Consolidate Regions

3 on the QWERTY keyboard, not the numpad.

[jacobsiostrom]

hey got it workingwith shift+alt+3 thou

i appreciate the help

thanx