Batch bounce to WAV's from Pro Tools

[PapillonIrl]

Ok, I don't use PT, but in Samplitude there is a bouncing optiom that let's you bounce every channel to a mono or stereo track, in whatever format, w/or without plugs.

This is done as a batch job, all files end up in the same folder, and are consolitated in time.

Two PT users have told me that there is no such function in PT, and that bouncing down the tracks was 'a major job'.

I am only going to be mixing, I just want the raw files. I will probably get them to save to PT 5 format and use EDL convert.

I just find it hard to believe that PT doesn't have this function ? I can do it in under 5min on a big session in Samp.

Can anyone confirm or deny this ?

Nathan

[Lifer]

Sadly this is true..due to the limitations of real time DSP's.
The easiest way i work around this is by creating a new set of tracks and bussing/recording to them, so i can record everything separately in one or two passes.
i dont use hundreds of tracks in my session so i usually have enough tracks spare with my HD Accel system. LE users might struggle with this method though as they are still limited to 48 tracks max..as far as i know there is no other "quick" way of doing it.
Lifer

[RadioMoo]

If you just want the raw files - I'm assuming this is PT LE? - you'd use the Export Selected As feature (Shift+Command+K on a Mac). Consolidate all tracks, select all and export. There's a dialogue box to select file type, bit and sample rate and destination folder. This feature adds dither if exporting 16 bit files.

EDIT: This is not the same as Bounce To Disk: it's faster-than-real-time, and it is a batch export.

[max cooper]

Originally Posted by RadioMoo

If you just want the raw files - I'm assuming this is PT LE? - you'd use the Export Selected As feature (Shift+Command+K on a Mac). Consolidate all tracks, select all and export. There's a dialogue box to select file type, bit and sample rate and destination folder. This feature adds dither if exporting 16 bit files.

This is what I'd do. Make sure you can see the region list in the edit window (click the double arrows at the bottom right) then at the top where it says "regions" with a black down arrow, click and you'll get a menu. You want 'export regions as files'

Hope that's not redundant.

[PapillonIrl]

Originally Posted by RadioMoo

If you just want the raw files - I'm assuming this is PT LE? - you'd use the Export Selected As feature (Shift+Command+K on a Mac). Consolidate all tracks, select all and export. There's a dialogue box to select file type, bit and sample rate and destination folder. This feature adds dither if exporting 16 bit files.

EDIT: This is not the same as Bounce To Disk: it's faster-than-real-time, and it is a batch export.

Originally Posted by max cooper

This is what I'd do. Make sure you can see the region list in the edit window (click the double arrows at the bottom right) then at the top where it says "regions" with a black down arrow, click and you'll get a menu. You want 'export regions as files'

Hope that's not redundant.

Thanks guys, that sounds like a similar process to the one in Samplitude.

Nathan

[PapillonIrl]

Originally Posted by Lifer

Sadly this is true..due to the limitations of real time DSP's.
The easiest way i work around this is by creating a new set of tracks and bussing/recording to them, so i can record everything separately in one or two passes.
i dont use hundreds of tracks in my session so i usually have enough tracks spare with my HD Accel system. LE users might struggle with this method though as they are still limited to 48 tracks max..as far as i know there is no other "quick" way of doing it.
Lifer

Can you expand on this ?

I have a similiar situation with someone using HD.

I'm not that familiar with PT. Does the process you mentioned involve the audio taking a trip through the A/D/A ?

I am looking to get time consolidated 24/44.1 files in one folder, labeled if possible, (but that's not necessary) sans FX/EQ.

Is this the quickest way to do it in HD ?

Thanks,

Nathan

[Lifer]

If you don't need the fx or eq, the way described in the above post is probably much easier! The way i do it, assigning the tracks' output to separate busses and then recording those busses on to new tracks, is so i can print the fx and eq/compression on all tracks in one bounce. This way it doesn't have to go through the D/A and A/D again. On Pro Tools the busses are internal, kind of a way of making everything patchable.
Lifer

[RadioMoo]

Originally Posted by max cooper

This is what I'd do. Make sure you can see the region list in the edit window (click the double arrows at the bottom right) then at the top where it says "regions" with a black down arrow, click and you'll get a menu. You want 'export regions as files'

Hope that's not redundant.

I suggested consolidating as the easiest way to get everything to line up right. If you have more than one region in a track separated by silence, consolidating will give you one file the length of the entire track, blank spaces and all.

[8thnote]

Originally Posted by RadioMoo

If you just want the raw files - I'm assuming this is PT LE? - you'd use the Export Selected As feature (Shift+Command+K on a Mac). Consolidate all tracks, select all and export. There's a dialogue box to select file type, bit and sample rate and destination folder. This feature adds dither if exporting 16 bit files.

EDIT: This is not the same as Bounce To Disk: it's faster-than-real-time, and it is a batch export.

don't for get that you may need or want to name the consolidated tracks before you export.

[TeknikL]

I just solo'd each track and sometimes the associated instrument track one by one and bounced to disk interleaved. It took forever, but that'll teach me to get non ProTools friends to try to master my tracks -- Sony Acid pro (By all measures a lesser DAW) has this option, WTF? It's not real-time though... It processed all channel's separate stereo exports in 17 seconds after I imported all the bounces from PT just to be sure it all lined up before sending it off to the masters. :|

M