Dealing with Long recording

[williamconifer]

greets,

I recorded almost a 2 hour live performance with 4 tracks. This took up about 2 gigs of HD space. So the band said to work on 5 of the 20 songs. I had some basic channel settings setup already for the rough mix I gave to the band. So to isolate each track to produce I simply saved as the original recording to another name I then opened up that file in Sonar 2, spilt before and after the song I wanted to work on and then deleted everthing on the time line before and after the song. I would then produce/mix the song. I did this with 6 songs.

I checked my harddrive and found that each new project I created for each song to mix had the same amount of data in it 2 gigs. So now I have like 14 gigs of HD space dedicated to this project when it should only be about 4 gigs.

2 Questions:

1. what is the proper way to "extract" a song out of a long recording to work on it seperately without duplicating all of the wav files of the original recording?

2. How can I "prune" the file size of the project files I already have without damaging the data?

thanks
Jack

[KingstonRock]

Ok...

1.) Go into each new project file where you cut up the songs.
2.) Edit-select all
3.) Edit-apply trimming (this is telling sonar not to "remember" anything outside of what is being displayed. Since sonar is a non-destructive editor it will save everything so that you can get it back later incase you realized you trimmed to far by mistake.)
4.) Save the files after the apply trimming command has been executed.
5.) Run the tools-clean audio folder function, once you have deleted everything in that window and click ok, you should see the percentage of harddrive usage monitor in sonar drop

Make sure that you still have the main file untouched so that you dont lose anything.

Eric

[williamconifer]

That did the trick. Thanks man.

jack