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I recently recorded a live concert and have a couple of post-production bounce-to-disc questions:

1) Is there a way to place track markers in my sequence so that I can bounce-to-disc and have the end product be a seamless audio production with CD track markers throughout?

2) Is there a SIMPLE way to bounce only a portion of a sequence to disk? I'd like to bounce 4 minutes from the middle of the show to disc as a stereo audio file to burn to CD. Wondering if there's a SIMPLE way to designate just this portion for burning without disassembling the entire sequence. I've tried splitting the soundbites before and after and then selecting only those soundbite. I end up with silence before and after the section and the track remains the length of the entire show.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bounce is a region operation. What you select is what you bounce. So, if you only select the middle four minutes of your audio, that's what will be included in the bounce. Make the selection in the ruler of either the Sequence Editor (make sure all your tracks are displayed with the Track Selector List on the left), or the ruler of the Tracks Overview Window.

DP can bounce directly to AIFF, which can then be dropped into iTunes to make a quick audio CD. If you want multiple CD tracks, you'll need to do separate bounces for each selection, and iTunes will put a gap between each track.
If you want no gap between track index points, use Jam software to make the CD.

Magic Dave

Thanks, Dave. I'll give it a go.

Originally posted by musicianary:
1) Is there a way to place track markers in my sequence so that I can bounce-to-disc and have the end product be a seamless audio production with CD track markers throughout?

If you don't have Toast, there is a very cool audio shareware app called Amadeus (http://www.hairersoft.com/) with which you can take an audio file (say an AIFF bounced from DP) and set split points where you want the tracks to break on the CD. Then you can do a save-at-split-points (or something such the like, I'm not in front of my audio machine at the moment) and it creates separate audio files based on where you placed the split points. You can then send these audio files over to iTunes (making sure you specify no breaks between tracks in the iTunes prefs) and burn your CD.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Larry

even though you select in iTUNES to "have no gap between songs" there is still a SMALL glitch.
In my experience, if you want seemless track splitting when burning, use TOAST.

I use Jam to burn continuous live shows.

That said I also use markers at the beginning and end of each song as my bounce points, click on marker 4 and all tracks will be selected until marker 5. Save all of these bounce settings the first time and use the bounce multiple command and go have a beer...