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Session Options. In this movie we'll talk about when we actually create a new Session what our Options are for being able to use recording of our files. So, I'm going to go up to the File Menu and choose New Session, Command-N is the default, or Control-N on a Windows system, and we get this dialog which asks us what do we actually want to do? Do we want to go from a Session Template, or do we actually want to start New, and in this case we're going to start New and look at some of our parameters here. If we actually start from a Template it's whatever parameters that we want to choose down here based on these sessions. And this is actually pretty nice from our previous way of locking a Template because we were always fixed in to what the Sample Rate was, and what audio files we were going to record with. So, the thing that I would suggest to use as well as Digidesign suggests is a Broadcast Wave file as opposed to the AIFF for the Sound Designer 2, which is a file format that they came up with over a decade ago. So, the reason why I would say use a Broadcast Wave file is because it's the most compatible. AIFF is a pretty strong second, but also we have Time Stamping, it allows us to be able to know where the actual audio file was recorded so we can use this in other digital audio workstations such as Logic or QBase, or any of these other major platforms, we can actually take the time that these were recorded out within the session and spot these. So, that's kind of nice. So, everything is in its proper location of where it was actually recorded in Pro Tools just using another DAW. It's also useful within Pro Tools itself. Sample Rate, I can choose this if I want to actually record more frequencies. I won't get into the detail of this. I'd suggest watching some of VTC's other Tutorials, Ben Harris's Tutorial on Mastering would help with this a little bit more as well, the details of this. So, Sample Rate, if I'm going to a CD I would definitely want to have 44.1. I can choose any Sample Rate here, though, and still record to a CD, it would just take conversion, and usually the two common practices in studio still is 44.1 and 48, just because we're allowed to get more processing power out of our computer for doing 48 that's usually what's recommended with films, doing video files are usually 48. And then our IO Setting. Typically if you're working on your own Last Used is a good choice, but you can actually set up your own Templates so if you're working with a band you may have particular names for what your routing is. We'll discuss this more in another movie. And then the Bit Depth I would strongly recommend using 24 bits over 16 bits. When we go down to a CD it's going to be 44.1, 16 bits, but for our processing of our audio it's a good practice to have it at 24 bit, just because we maintain our Dynamic Range a little bit better with 24 bits. We have 16 million different steps of Resolution when we're at 24 bit versus 65,000 when we're at 16 bits, so, without going into too much detail there, this is the recommended Setup. You may want to change on your Sample Rate here, this may vary for you, but I'm going to leave it at 44.1 and then choose OK. Now it's asking me where do I want to save it, so I'm going to choose, in this case, my Desktop. Typically you'd want to save your Sessions to another folder on a different drive, so I would usually have a Projects Folder and then have this on the secondary drive, so something like this Media here and then saving my audio files, for me, in an Audio Files Folder, and the reason for that is you're just able to get another drive to actually be able to process your audio or be able to feed your audio rather than the system drive, trying to do that. So, I'm going to go back to my Desktop and I'll say New Session 2, and Pro Tools automatically creates a Folder for me. It can only have one Session open at a time. Since there was a Session currently open, it's asking me do I want to save the Last Session, and No, we'll create a New Session. I've got the Edit Window open here with New Session 02. A handy thing if you forget or don't remember where you saved something, on a Macintosh system you can Command-click up at the top on the name and you can actually go out to where the Folder is where this exists, so we can open this up and see when it was actually created. So, it created a New Session Folder named New Session 02. That was the Title that I gave it, and then we see a bunch of Folders in here that were automatically created for us. The Waveform Cache is part of the actual Waveforms that get recorded. This is an overview. It actually draws those out so it doesn't have to recreate those. And then Video Files, Region Groups, Fade Files, and Audio Files Ð we'll discuss these more in another movie, but most of these can actually be removed. Our two crucial things that we always want to have for our Session is our New Session Audio Files, and if we have Video Files, our Video Files Folder.