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File consolidation in Logic 5.5

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Submitted by 3dchris on

Hi Everyone.

I am about to mix my Logic Audio project in the professional studio using Pro Tools HD. What they asked me to do is to consolidate the files in logic so that they all start at the same point (i.e. from the first bar). Since almost all of my songs are 40+ tracks and many of them start let's say at measure 10 or 26, what's the fastest way to make them all start at measure 1? Any help will be greatly appreciated.



thx,



chris

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pan
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Hi Chris!

It's easy: Just record a little blank audiofile (same bit-depth as your session, and place it at exactly bar 1.

Now copy this bit to all audiotracks, and name the bit according to the track. (If you have stereotracks, you also need a stereo bit!!!!)

Now select a new record path for the song, and start merging the files track by track:

Select a track - now all files of this track should be selected - use the Glue-tool or a keycommand to merge the files - voila!

This might take some time for heavily edited tracks.



n

Fri, 04/09/2004 - 04:53 Permalink
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mjones4th

3dchris,



Pro Tools can read the time stamp info from SDII files. Here's a link to the Logic FAQ at Omega Art with the details:



http://logicfaq.omega-art.com/html/faq24.htm#10 (there are gobs of useful info there)



This way, you don't have to fiddle with starting tracks from Measure 1,bouncing files, wasting disk space, etc... And, even better, you can teach the PT mix engineer something about his system, and make yourself look smart in the process!



You'll want to rename the audio files more appropriately. Additionally, you'll want to split interleaved stereo files, as mentioned by pan. There's an option to 'Convert interleaved to split stereo' somewhere in the audio window of Logic. You can select 100s of files if you like. Do all this before you do the above method.



Of course you'll lose all your effects, but I'm sure the PT guy would rather have the dry files. If you want to keep the effects for a certain track, just do a track freeze. Make sure you set the freeze depth to 24-bit, and you'll have to find the track (it'll be in a subfolder called Freeze Files, wherever the Logic song resides), import it, and then do all the above steps.

Fri, 04/09/2004 - 06:49 Permalink
pan
pan

3dchris wrote: Thank You very much guys. All my files are on PC in wave format. What's the fastest way to convert them to SDII or AIFF? Also, should I first convert the stereo waves to split before converting to SDII or AIFF?



In Logic's Audio-window you have the option to "Copy/Convert selected Files" - do this after you did all of the conversions mentioned above.



n



Good luck for the mix! Oh, one last thing:

If the Studio is still working in MacOS9, they need a nice little System-extension called Joliet Volume Access to read your CD-ROM correctly;-)

They should find it @ Versiontracker - Version 1.42 is free and does all they need.

Sun, 04/11/2004 - 12:19 Permalink