Live recording post production question

[Rythym4God]

I am a newbie to DP. I have 4.6 running on a dual 2.5. I am using the system to mulitrack our weekly services at church and the projects tend to run around 40 minutes of just music alone. My question is this, what it the best way to "divide" up service by song so that when we fianlly get to burning a CD of the service, we can have track "markers" for each song/section of the service?

[sdfalk]

Shist K or go under the projects window to find markers.
When the window comes up, under the mini submenu you
can add markers to your hearts content while playing/recording
your service.

<small>[ July 23, 2005, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: sdfalk ]</small>

[pigital derformer]

Assuming you want the CD of the services to run smoothley and unedited (ie no fadeouts/ins or bits missing in the middle) BUT with the ability use track numbers to skip to different sections this is what i would do:

On the timeline place markers in between hymns etc - wherever you want the CD tracks to be.

When you're happy with the mix etc select each section between the markers in turn (by clicking on a marker) and bounce them to disk seperately calling them track 1, track 2..... whatever...

Then, when you burn the CD assemble them in order and make sure there is no pause between tracks. (I use Toast and it is possible to do that with it)

hope this helps :p

[rainmaker]

To extend what jazzmistress said... Instead of having to bounce each track as a seperate file, you can just use Roxio Jam (Toast's bigger brother) and it can make skippable tracks from markers brought in with the file to burn. For example, if you set up markers in DP or Peak LE which comes with Jam, then place that file into Jam for burning, Jam will automatically make each marker a seperate track without having to seperate the track into multiple files beforehand. And of course, you can also choose to have gaps in between songs or have them play seamless into one another...

Hope this helps...

[Splinter]

What I do is bounce the entire file and specify it to Add to Sequence. Then viewing and hearing the entire file, simply Split (option + Y) where the cursor is to separate each song. Rename each soundbite (I usually number them as well starting each soundbite name with 01, 02, 03... 10, 11, etc...) and export the soundbites as AIFF files to Toast. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn't allow continous playback when burning CDs, thus there is always a gap (a half second or so) between songs. Very lame. Toast will do the same if you let it convert the files to 16bit AIFF. If you do it in DP, no problems.