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Whats your way to export all audio tracks into separate file

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Hi there,
If you have 100 audio tracks in DP, What's your best way to export them as separate audio files?
(then perhaps ready to import into Pro Tools)
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Re: Whats your way to export all audio tracks into separate

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Select All in the Tracks window.

Merge Soundbites from the Audio menu.

Go to the Project folder>Audio Files and view by date. The newly created audio files will be at the top of the list and ready to import to any other DAW.

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Re: Whats your way to export all audio tracks into separate

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Why didn't I think of that earlier?

Not quite as convenient as some other DAWs, but that'll work pretty well!

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Re: Whats your way to export all audio tracks into separate

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I'd add one step-- which is kind of a fail-safe--

For all tracks that don't start right at the beginning, I record a moment of silence at the top-- that way when I merge them, they all start at the beginning. When someone else imports them, they won't have to worry about start times.

Though it adds to the size of the files, the silence that is added to the tracks does not impact the size of the files after they are zipped.

There may be a trick to merge that will do this automatically (without having to record some nothing at the beginning), but I haven't learned it.
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Re: Whats your way to export all audio tracks into separate

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stubbsonic wrote:I'd add one step-- which is kind of a fail-safe--
Don't know if you meant actually recording silence, but a small simplification is to create a new audio file in the soundbite window (which will be silent) and add that to the start of each track.
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That works. It can be quicker to record enable all the tracks that need it and record for a split second, This is faster than pasting in a single mono s.b. then a single stereo s.b.

I will often check the resulting tracks and delete unused soundbites before archiving.
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stubbsonic wrote:I'd add one step-- which is kind of a fail-safe--

For all tracks that don't start right at the beginning, I record a moment of silence at the top-- that way when I merge them, they all start at the beginning.
I don't find this step to be necessary if you "Select All", like mentioned in the first reply. It automatically selects from the beginning of the Sequence, as it is.
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stubbsonic wrote:That works. It can be quicker to record enable all the tracks that need it and record for a split second, This is faster than pasting in a single mono s.b. then a single stereo s.b.

I will often check the resulting tracks and delete unused soundbites before archiving.
I don't remember the DP version but long ago you did have to have audio at the start of the Merge selection in order to create audio back to the start of the sequence. You don't need to do that now. Select-all should create a selection from the start of the sequence regardless of whether there is actual audio at the start.

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Ah! That's so good to know. I guess I just did it out of habit.

Just confirmed that it works in DP 8.

I will remember that.
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So from what's here, the best is magicd 's way , the merge way is the best?
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rockman413 wrote:So from what's here, the best is magicd 's way , the merge way is the best?
Since MagicDave is with MOTU, I would place his suggestion pretty high up on the list!

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rockman413 wrote:So from what's here, the best is magicd 's way , the merge way is the best?
Yes it is, I use it and love it every day. Unlike bounce to disk or track freeze, merge doesn't go through the mixing desk, so none of the plugins and faders get written.. but it does include pitch automation and fades/edits. It's the perfect way to consolidate a heavily pitch-edited track into a nice clean audio file, because the resulting audio is "in place" on the track, so nothing changes.

I also use it to bounce out un-effected, raw stems for others who will be using the tracks I record here. If the project is to a click track/tempo, I will write the measure number it should be dropped in at, into the track name before I merge (and merge from that measure). That way I don't have to go from the beginning with every track. The track name is the name the merge will have, so like Magic Dave said, you can go into soundbites window when you are done with the merge and export them all at once, without renaming.
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Re: Whats your way to export all audio tracks into separate

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So I recorded a bunch of soundbites, I merge them and new soundbites are generated. I can reveal them in finder then I got the .wav files and ready to import into Pro Tools. I can also select them and export them into wav files, am I getting the same files? Would export audio change anything ? Is it better to just reveal them in finder and copy them?
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rockman413 wrote:So I recorded a bunch of soundbites, I merge them and new soundbites are generated. I can reveal them in finder then I got the .wav files and ready to import into Pro Tools. I can also select them and export them into wav files, am I getting the same files? Would export audio change anything ? Is it better to just reveal them in finder and copy them?
The only difference would be if you want to change the type of files generated. Like say you recorded in Broadcast Wave interleaved, but you wanted to import into PT as deinterleaved, or AIFF, etc.

I always export out of the soundbites window, even if it's the same file type.. I guess I don't have a particularly good reason for that :wink:
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Killahurts wrote:
I always export out of the soundbites window, even if it's the same file type.. I guess I don't have a particularly good reason for that :wink:
That's been my MO, too. The only downside was (as I recall) one had to select just the mono tracks or just the stereo tracks as the pre-export window seems to only give a non-interleaved or interleaved choice per export.

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