export for mixing in pro tools

[billfiler]

Is there a way to bounce all files to disk for mixing in another platform without tediously going through each tack and bouncing one at a time? I have a large project (each of the 10 songs has a minimum of 30 tracks with tons of punch-ins) and it is going to be mixed at another studio that uses protools. Does the OMF export work reliably? If so does it only work for the play enabled tracks. For instance will the other studio be able to open other takes of the same song? I'm trying to avoid spending hours bouncing each track to disk one at a time so they all start at the same time and incorporate all of the punches. I'm using dp 7.24 on a dual quad core mac.
Thanks

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Export as an AAF or OMF. Select you options carefully. Be sure to INCLUDE audio and bring that entire folder to the PT session. Once the files are there you can just export the OMF or AAF file w/o the audio unless you record new data, in which case you only need the new audio next time. The OMF or AAF will know where to find the audio. Be especially careful about fades. Render them if you have a lot of crossfades as PT 10 will not correctly read crossfades from DP - at least it didn't in my last few sessions.

I'd also make bwav the default for the DP sessions. Interleaved is usually fine unless the PT session guy wants independent L and R audio. Usually that's a waste of time but if there are commentary tracks, etc, it might make a difference.

[ghobish]

As long as any edits in the tracks are acceptable, you can select all the tracks (with the selecion probably starting at 0:00) and consolidate (shift-command-M). This will make contiguous new tracks all starting from the same point (with the -mg suffix in the filename). This would take only a few minutes.

For safety's sake, it's probably best to duplicate all tracks first so that you may return to the uncinsolidated state should you discover an unacceptable edit down the line.