Live Session recorded in Pro Tools

[digi007]

Ok here is my dilema- I have a live recording with about 11 songs that
I have recorded as one session using Pro tools version 6.7. I want to
take each song and break it up into individual sessions with its own
separate audio files. Is there an easy way to do this? I would love
to just have the option to select the regions for the song and then
have the option to save audio regions as a new session file. Maybe
there is, I am a newbie to Pro tools and any help would be greatly
appreciated.

[hank alrich]

digi007 > wrote:

> Ok here is my dilema- I have a live recording with about 11 songs that
> I have recorded as one session using Pro tools version 6.7. I want to
> take each song and break it up into individual sessions with its own
> separate audio files. Is there an easy way to do this? I would love
> to just have the option to select the regions for the song and then
> have the option to save audio regions as a new session file. Maybe
> there is, I am a newbie to Pro tools and any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Have you given the documentation even a cursory glance?

Do you know about the Digidesign User's Conference?

http://duc.digidesign.com/

--
ha
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

[Mike Rivers]

On Apr 11, 3:47 pm, "digi007" > wrote:
> Ok here is my dilema- I have a live recording with about 11 songs that
> I have recorded as one session using Pro tools version 6.7. I want to
> take each song and break it up into individual sessions with its own
> separate audio files. Is there an easy way to do this?

This must be a pretty common task. See if there's a "Save project as"
file funciton. I'm not a ProTools user, but just about every file-
oriented program, whether for audio or anything else, has that
function these days. Selete everything but the song you want to turn
into a project, save it as a new project name, then either reload the
original project or undelete what you deleted and block out the next
song . . . and so on.

[Jakub Hadraba]

Try File > Import Session Data to import selected tracks to a new
project.

Jakub

On Apr 11, 9:47 pm, "digi007" > wrote:
> Ok here is my dilema- I have a live recording with about 11 songs that
> I have recorded as one session using Pro tools version 6.7. I want to
> take each song and break it up into individual sessions with its own
> separate audio files. Is there an easy way to do this? I would love
> to just have the option to select the regions for the song and then
> have the option to save audio regions as a new session file. Maybe
> there is, I am a newbie to Pro tools and any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

[Greg Boboski]

I believe , that if you simply save session as , you end up with the audio
still in the original
folder as one big file , but the mentioned import [ & convert ] then
bring em in with the timestamp
, make sure you name them before importing to make it easier



"Jakub Hadraba" > wrote in message
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> Try File > Import Session Data to import selected tracks to a new
> project.
>
> Jakub
>
> On Apr 11, 9:47 pm, "digi007" > wrote:
>> Ok here is my dilema- I have a live recording with about 11 songs that
>> I have recorded as one session using Pro tools version 6.7. I want to
>> take each song and break it up into individual sessions with its own
>> separate audio files. Is there an easy way to do this? I would love
>> to just have the option to select the regions for the song and then
>> have the option to save audio regions as a new session file. Maybe
>> there is, I am a newbie to Pro tools and any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>

[Mike Rivers]

On Apr 12, 8:13 am, "Greg Boboski" > wrote:

> I believe , that if you simply save session as , you end up with the audio
> still in the original
> folder as one big file

That's the way these things usually work. The "Save As" trick is
usually fast and, because it doesn't duplicate the audio files,
doesn't take up much disk space. What it does is offers the
convenience of working on one song at a time without having to search
for it in a big file, if that's what you want to do. Once the song is
edited, processed, and limited and compressed so that the VU meters
don't budge off -005 dBFS from start to finish, you can then export
the final result.

Of course if your wish is to make individual working FILES, then the
export route from the big project is the way to go.

When I make a concert recording, it may get editied and tweaked, but
the final product is usually a coherent set of songs that sound like
the concert, so I don't usually have need to separate out individual
songs. Setting and using locate points (or just taking note of the
time code) gets me to where I need to work pretty quickly. It might
take a bit longer to load than if I had a file or files just one song
length, but what the heck, you gotta make the coffee (or get rid of
it) SOME time.