Odd soundminer question/help

[postprosound]

I'm working on a HBO Series, and want to streamline my workflow. The first episode has been cut, with many of the locations introduced. In an effort to keep consistent, i'd like to use the sounds from the same recordings for the same location/ on camera action. I.E. i'd like to use sounds from the same doorbell or telephone ring recording, without having to redo the hunt. i'm going to make a new database just for this show, to keep all my eggs together.

My question.... What i'd like to do is take all of the cut sounds from the timeline or the region list, and put them back into soundminer, into a different database, so that i can just call up 'Fred's living room' and have access to what i need.
Is there a way to simply drag from a Pro Tools session, as opposed to the Mac Finder, back into soundminer?
Right clicking on the region in the region list, then right clicking on the parent in the workspace, then dragging that into soundminer will add a bunch of extra steps i'd like to avoid.

[charles maynes]

Depending on the version of SM you are using, you should look at the pull list feature- where you can keep a record of each thing pulled- otherwise you can drag the session into SM and it will list the files used by it.

[Jfriah]

Personally...if you're doing series work:

I am a proponent for building a 'template session' containing your sounds/builds/rough levels that you can keep adding to as the series goes on.

Really speeds up workflow for me. Why go back and source the sounds, pull the sounds, place them, set the volumes... especially when you are layering any sounds.

I'll set up tracks for whatever the sounds are and import session data, spot to timeline, bada-bing.

(used to just have markers within a session but tracks are much easier/faster)

Jeff

[postprosound]

Originally Posted by charles maynes

Depending on the version of SM you are using, you should look at the pull list feature- where you can keep a record of each thing pulled- otherwise you can drag the session into SM and it will list the files used by it.

Thanks, Charles. That's the kind of thing i was looking for. Though, when i drag and drop the ptf file from the mac finder, Soundminer simply changes the transfer path, but lists no files. Am I missing something? i'm on 4.1..... SM pro.

[minister]

postprosound, look up "Spotting Panel" in the SM Manual.

[postprosound]

Thanks guys for all your answers. I think in a perfect world, i'd use the methods you guys mentioned, but many of the other editors just prefer to use different databases referring to the same files... you have to admit, it's simple...

One other question. how do i move certain entries (whose files are scattered all over the the library) into another database? I.e. take sounds i've searched for, from database 'A' and put those into database 'B'?

Thanks guys