Digidesign Pro Tools LE 6 Tutorials
Sessions / Importing Audio pt. 2
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Subtitles of the Movie (Digidesign Pro Tools LE 6 / Sessions / Importing Audio pt. 2)
In this movie, we will look at other ways to import audio into your Pro Tools sessions. We will look over to this audio bin on the right hand side of the edit window and this right here, this title where it says audio is actually a pop-up menu control. So if I hold down my mouse button here, I get this pop-up menu. We have an item here, which says import audio, and we have a keyboard equivalent, which is Shift Command+I on the Mac or Shift Control+I on the pc. Well, let's use that keyboard shortcut. Again we go to our overly large novelty dialogue box, we will click QuickTime audio and we will tell it to convert. Notice here how it didn't create a track for me. It just imported the audio into my audio bin. This will be helpful if I didn't necessarily want to create new tracks because I was bringing audio into existing tracks. I am going to open up the audio bin and show you something here. Let's grab this vertical bar with the mouse, move it to the left, I will just put it right about there. I will move my transport window over as well and from the audio bin pop-up menu I am going to choose show full path names. A path name is essentially a string of disk and folder names that leads you from the disk to the file in question. In this case these files are stored at media B which is a disk. Inside of that is a folder named ptimporter then audio files and then the files themselves. Keep that in mind as I do this. Let's go to audio, import audio. Let's go to the MyNewSong audio files folder and grab these tracks. Notice they came in pretty quickly. Notice too where they are located. Rather than being located in the ptimporter session project folder hierarchy, they are located in the MyNewSong folder hierarchy. This may not seem like a big deal at first but what if you remove the MySong project from your hard drive. Maybe to archive it or ship it to someone else and you delete it, well, the next time you open this session it's going to say I can't find these two files right here and I can't find this file either because you have thrown them away. Where are they? Not like that but what if I were to go like this and choose clear selected and then I say delete, says remove and permanently delete this selected sound files from your disk. Well, if I didn't have my head together and I clicked this thinking that these files were part of this session and store that way on the disk, I would be corrupting that other session; the MyNewSong session where these files are actually stored. Let's go ahead and clear out these files the proper way, which is just to remove them from this session rather than delete them from the disk. Let's go do this the right way. We will go back to that import audio dialogue box. Select those same files and this time we will choose copy. Have you noticed anything strange here? It doesn't say convert. I get the option to add, add all, copy or copy all. Kind of begs the question, what happened to convert? Or remember, a conversion is necessary when the source format does not match the session format. In this case, these files are the correct format. See that, 24-bit, 96 kHz, wave. So no conversion is necessary. That's why we are allowed to do just a simple add. Unless you really know what you are doing, I recommend you always choose copy or copy all instead of add or add all. And we are presented with the destination folder which is a good sign it means it's going to make a copy of it and as you can see from the path name, these files were all stored in this session project on the hard drive. In a later tutorial movie on importing session data, you will learn how to set Pro Tools to force copying of file information so we don't run into these problems again.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Digidesign Pro Tools LE 6 |
| Author: | Nathan Dickson |
| SKU: | 33599 |
| ISBN: | 1-932808-46-9 |
| Release Date: | 2005-02-25 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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