Need help converting PT 11 tracks to .wav's

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Seafroggys

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Hey, so I made a post a few weeks back, I'll elaborate here again. I've been working on a 21-song album, I started the process at my home studio but I've been recording strings and pianos at a commercial studio. I use Reaper, they use PT 11. I want to be able to do edits and proto-mixes at home without spending money on studio time, but I do not have access to PT 11. I asked around my local area for anybody with PT 11 that I could use to render the tracks into a single .wav to be imported into my Reaper files. No takers unfortunately.

Drop box is a bit of a hassle, but if anybody wants to help me out with that that would be great. I'm doing this to save money but I can paypal you some beer money as thanks. Thank god PT 11 has offline rendering. If anyone wants to help me out with this, or know someone who can help me out, I appreciate it!
 
PT tracks are WAV files (unless, for some strange reason the studio has decided to record into another format). I've been doing mixing and tracking work in Reaper for someone who records his material in a PT studio. He sends me a DVD with the PT audio files, and I load them into Reaper.

However, the tracks he send are unbroken from start to finish, so I don't have to worry about what goes where; they all start at the beginning.

Maybe the simplest option is for you to get the studio to consolidate and render your PT tracks so that they do the same.
 
Yeah man. Consolidating and copying isn't much hassle at all, but if the studio refuse to do it I'll happily do it for you.
 
Yeah the problem is that they're not start to finish, there's lots of starts and stops so I'm forced to add things by hand, which takes forever and is never exactly "on". Plus having to figure out which is the correct take.

I did ask about consolidating but he says he had to configure something or other and it would end up taking more time than I had left at the end of last session. I've never uploaded stuff onto Drop Box before but we'll see how that goes.
 
Open the PT project, select all, consolidate, export the relevant audio files, undo back to the unconsolidated tracks. I never seem to remember the precise details without PT in front of me, but there's not much more to it than that. There's nothing to "configure".
 
Hmmm maybe I'll bring that up with him when I go in in a week and a half. Think maybe we were talking about standard rendering, which is different from the consolidation. Maybe at least we can get the strings taken care of, meanwhile I'm uploading the piano and acoustic guitar (its only 3 tracks and not even on every song) so I can at least get that out of the way. So far Drop Box hasn't let me down, although I'm sure I have several gigs uploaded already and I'm not even halfway done :P
 
Alright so because of limited space we have to do these chunks at a time. 5/14 songs that currently need rendering/consolidating.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jlerlg3a810vpe6/AADhz9o1tvdgUpDxMzz8jJG3a
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ismeiwzhn49b38n/AABjZ3szpt0-A5ltngiqt5-xa
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ncflxk6iu90zcm9/AADH4fH_tx_Sio4DHxJOcQlka
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/otl7ya2zb0dpprn/AAAW3_Z0dLfqAuLmYdJW6atia
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p2ftigcjuihubg5/AACpTqxo6yWhC8FsXNc6-ABga

So Steen or anybody else, here's the first 5. I only included the tracks that need rendering, so loading the session file may yield file not found errors for everything else. Everything is recorded at 88.2 khz @ 24 bit (figured that was worth mentioning since most people record at 44.1). Also, please render from the beginning to the end of the last audio chunk.

Again thanks to anyone who wants to help me with at least these initial songs. Again when I go to the studio next I'll talk to the engineer about consolidation for the string tracks (which would be SOOOOO nice seeing as how there's 14 tracks on 17 songs....as opposed to 1-3 tracks on 14 songs here).
 
Seafroggys said:
Think maybe we were talking about standard rendering, which is different from the consolidation.
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Rendering commits any effects, automation etc.
Consolidating just prints what you see into a wav files. I'd use it if I've finished a load of comping and editing, so that all the bits are committed to one region. That way it's handier to make broadstroke automation adjustments. (volume, clip gain, pan etc.)

Anyway, if you can get the man to consolidate, export (or manually find,copy,paste), then undo, everyone wins.

If not I'll happily get you sorted.
I've got some stuff on today but I could download your files in a few hours. Are you in the UK?
 
Damn, Sorry Seafroggys. I intended to get back on this. Had a whole rake of server ballsups this weekend that needed some attention.

PM me if I can help at any stage.
 
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