archiving question

[Rythym4God]

Currently I record the worship services for our church. The sessions are roughly 25-30 tracks and about an hour long. All live, all at once. I place markers at the start of a new song but thats it. The final sessions are ending up somewhere around 10-15 gigabyte. What I need to find a way to do is to "chop" up the session into the individual songs so I can store each song as its own "session" on an external drive.

I want to also be able to get rid of tracks that aren't being used in a given song...such as one keyboard that was used in one song isn't played in the next song so I want to be able to cut that track in that song.

Also, What would be the best way to connect a couple of external hard drives to our G5 for archiving audio and video stuff separately.

Any help you can give will be met with great joy.

Thanks
Shannon
Hope Community Church

[c0mp0ser]

Currently I record the worship services for our church. The sessions are roughly 25-30 tracks and about an hour long. All live, all at once. I place markers at the start of a new song but thats it. The final sessions are ending up somewhere around 10-15 gigabyte. What I need to find a way to do is to "chop" up the session into the individual songs so I can store each song as its own "session" on an external drive.

I want to also be able to get rid of tracks that aren't being used in a given song...such as one keyboard that was used in one song isn't played in the next song so I want to be able to cut that track in that song.

Also, What would be the best way to connect a couple of external hard drives to our G5 for archiving audio and video stuff separately.

Any help you can give will be met with great joy.

Thanks
Shannon
Hope Community Church

Hey Shannon,
I'll try to help you. This is something that may take you some time. To separate your project into various "sessions" do the following:

1)Be in the Sequence Edit view.
2)Select ALL tracks (from Edit menu, or cmd a)
3)Hold down "c" for the scissor tool and cut at all your marker points.
4)Open up the chunks window and from the pulldown menu select "Add Sequence".
5)Name the sequence the name of the first song.
6)Double click on this chunk to open it up.
7)Copy/paste the first section that you made from the scissor tool from the sequence into this chunk.
8)Repeat steps 4-7 for each section/song, naming each chunk for the name of each song.

You mentioned cutting the tracks that don't have audio... what is your reason for doing this? Is it disk space?
Well, you can "export soundbites" for each and every track (the ones that have audio in them, and rename them (this will take a bit of time ) and then just save all those audio files in a directory on one of your external HD's.

I hope this is of any help,
Best,
-MP

[c0mp0ser]

Currently I record the worship services for our church. The sessions are roughly 25-30 tracks and about an hour long. All live, all at once. I place markers at the start of a new song but thats it. The final sessions are ending up somewhere around 10-15 gigabyte. What I need to find a way to do is to "chop" up the session into the individual songs so I can store each song as its own "session" on an external drive.

I want to also be able to get rid of tracks that aren't being used in a given song...such as one keyboard that was used in one song isn't played in the next song so I want to be able to cut that track in that song.

Also, What would be the best way to connect a couple of external hard drives to our G5 for archiving audio and video stuff separately.

Any help you can give will be met with great joy.

Thanks
Shannon
Hope Community Church

Hey Shannon,
I'll try to help you. This is something that may take you some time. To separate your project into various "sessions" do the following:

1)Be in the Sequence Edit view.
2)Select ALL tracks (from Edit menu, or cmd a)
3)Hold down "c" for the scissor tool and cut at all your marker points.
4)Open up the chunks window and from the pulldown menu select "Add Sequence".
5)Name the sequence the name of the first song.
6)Double click on this chunk to open it up.
7)Copy/paste the first section that you made from the scissor tool from the sequence into this chunk.
8)Repeat steps 4-7 for each section/song, naming each chunk for the name of each song.

You mentioned cutting the tracks that don't have audio... what is your reason for doing this? Is it disk space?
Well, you can "export soundbites" for each and every track (the ones that have audio in them, and rename them (this will take a bit of time ) and then just save all those audio files in a directory on one of your external HD's.

I hope this is of any help,
Best,
-MP

[c0mp0ser]

d'oh! Sorry for the double post!

[Rythym4God]

Yes, the reason for wanting to cut the tracks that don't have any "playing" on them is disk space. they do have audio because the whole live session is recorded at once. Its just that not every instrument is used on every song or for an entire song.

Thanks for your reply though! I am going to give it a shot this afternoon and see if it works.

Shannon