Saving Sessions To Disk

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chrisharris

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Hey gang...I'm using Adobe Audition 1.5. I've recently completed a 12 song CD, and I have all the sessions saved nowhere else but on my hard drive. Each session is about half a gig, according to the little box in the lower right hand corner of the AA screen.

I understand that AA has CD burning capabilities. Can somebody talk to me like I'm a 4 year old child, and tell me the best way to save each of these sessions (including the audio) to a seperate disk from inside AA? I mean, what I've done in the past is a real pain, and it'd be great to just be able to do "BURN SESSION TO DISK" from inside AA, put a disk in, and have all the 32bit files and the envelopes and time markers and effects and everything else burned right to disk.

Thanks
-The Lazy One
 
I just save all of my .wav files in a folder along with the .ses file. The .ses file will have all of the envelopes and such that you mentioned saved. then just create a data disk and save the folder to it. This is where a DVD writer comes in handy since a normal cd-r cant hold an entire song worth of .wavs unless there are very few of them. A DVD-r can hold 4 gigs. you can get several song folders on one DVD.
 
thajeremy said:
This is where a DVD writer comes in handy since a normal cd-r cant hold an entire song worth of .wavs unless there are very few of them. A DVD-r can hold 4 gigs.
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Yeah, bingo...that's why it's a hassle for me, actually. Invariably, there's a LOT more stuff in each song folder than just the wave files...there are mixes and mp3's of mixes and a few leftover tracks that I didn't use but named in a way that scares me from deleting them, LOL.

Just takes forever...thanks for the reply.
 
Why not save to a DVD-R? (This is disingenuous. I have not yet installed a DVD burner on my Adobe Audition machine. However, there's one on this computer, and I got it for $50 [the burner, not the computer].)

Seriously, although I have been archiving onto external hard drives, I am now ready to believe DVD-R is the way to go. What, 4.7G of storage per DVD? My projects seem to run around 3.5-4 Gigabytes.
 
Another way to do it would be to go to Best Bu.... I mean Circuit City and get an External hard drive that plugs into your USB port. Then just click and drag the projects into the external drive. External drives are cheap these days and IMO its alot easier that burning it all to DVD.
 
Ok, six hours later...Done, LMAO. Some of those sessions were 2Gb...The whole thing took about 20 CDR's...never again. Never again. I will buy whatever is necessary to avoid this in the future.
 
The whole thing took about 20 CDR's

Guess I'm going out to buy a DVD burner for my recording computer!
 
lpdeluxe said:
Guess I'm going out to buy a DVD burner for my recording computer!
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You and me both. I'm usually only doing 1 or 2 songs at a time, so I hadn't noticed how time consuming and inefficient it is to archive this way. It appears that a 200GB hard drive has the tendency to make me lazy, lol.
 
Seriously - Like Kermit said, get an external hard drive and backup to it. It's way easier than DVD or CD.

Here is just one that is available.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...CategoryId=pcmcat33200050002&id=1089890509237

Stores up to 4800 hours of digital music, 75,000 digital photos, seventy-five 2-hour DVD-quality movies or thousands of business files!

Plus if you compress the projects when you transfer them then that would give you even more space. You could even have several hard drives and swap them out as they get full.
 
See, my problem with the external drive is that It doesn't really solve my paranoid problem. It would be attached to my computer, so when the fire or earthquake makes the ceiling fall on my computer, well...you see the problem.

The CDR's I burned last night are in a different building than my house right now. I'd tell you where they are, but then you'd probably try to steal them, and I'd be back to my original problem...all files in 1 place = bad.

You freaking thieves...KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF MY DATA!!!!

:D
 
I have a Dual Layer DVD burner. I currently only use DVD-R as it's sufficient for me. I just recently saved my last 17 song project on one DVD-R, at 4.2GB of data for the full project.

It's much easier than fighting with external hard drives, and it's much cheaper.

My dual layer burner cost me $80 after the $20 rebate. It came with Full Nero application as well. Which I needed as I'm too poor to upgrade.

With an external Drive, you eventually run out of space... Well, I don't. I can burn as many DVD's as I want, and at the price of $.60 per DVD-R, your 200GB external drive for $150 would have yielded me my burner, plus 116 DVD-R's at 4.7 GB each, for a total of 548 GB of storage. So, 548GB vs. 200GB for the same price, which would you choose?
 
With an external Drive, you eventually run out of space

That's my problem. I have filled a 40G, and now have 2 80G, but I can see the end....

I couldn't find a DVD burner this morning in town. Back to New Egg....
 
chrisharris said:
See, my problem with the external drive is that It doesn't really solve my paranoid problem. It would be attached to my computer, so when the fire or earthquake makes the ceiling fall on my computer, well...you see the problem.

The CDR's I burned last night are in a different building than my house right now. I'd tell you where they are, but then you'd probably try to steal them, and I'd be back to my original problem...all files in 1 place = bad.

You freaking thieves...KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF MY DATA!!!!

:D
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Well you could do the same thing with a smaller external hard drive. Just unplug it and bring it to the other building..

But anyway we all know that the real issue is that you're a CHEAP BASTARD !

:D ;)
 
Change of POETS said:
I have a Dual Layer DVD burner. I currently only use DVD-R as it's sufficient for me. I just recently saved my last 17 song project on one DVD-R, at 4.2GB of data for the full project.

It's much easier than fighting with external hard drives, and it's much cheaper.

My dual layer burner cost me $80 after the $20 rebate. It came with Full Nero application as well. Which I needed as I'm too poor to upgrade.

With an external Drive, you eventually run out of space... Well, I don't. I can burn as many DVD's as I want, and at the price of $.60 per DVD-R, your 200GB external drive for $150 would have yielded me my burner, plus 116 DVD-R's at 4.7 GB each, for a total of 548 GB of storage. So, 548GB vs. 200GB for the same price, which would you choose?
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I would still choose the external drive. How many times can you write to that DVD-R?

One other feature I use with WinXP is the backup utility. Again I would rather use an external hard drive to backup my entire PC and walk away then sit there and change DVD's etc. I have two external cases and I replace the hard drives within them whenever they get full, which has happened once.

Then we could talk about issues with DVD and CD-R rot. I know a hard drive is not guaranteed either, but I know that if something happens to it I can bring it to the data recovery place here in town if I really had to.

It's all just opinions and preferences. What works better for me, doesn't work better for you. Sorry but no one will ever convince me that I'm better off backing up to DVD. :)
 
One set of files lives on my hard drive. One set of backups lives in my room on CDs. Another set of backups lives at work. If everything goes down, it was meant to be.
 
vestast said:
I would still choose the external drive. How many times can you write to that DVD-R?

One other feature I use with WinXP is the backup utility. Again I would rather use an external hard drive to backup my entire PC and walk away then sit there and change DVD's etc. I have two external cases and I replace the hard drives within them whenever they get full, which has happened once.

Then we could talk about issues with DVD and CD-R rot. I know a hard drive is not guaranteed either, but I know that if something happens to it I can bring it to the data recovery place here in town if I really had to.

It's all just opinions and preferences. What works better for me, doesn't work better for you. Sorry but no one will ever convince me that I'm better off backing up to DVD. :)
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're older than most of us, and refuse to conform to the better "newfangled" technology. :D
 
Change of POETS said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're older than most of us, and refuse to conform to the better "newfangled" technology. :D
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LOL.. :)

No really I'm mostly just lazy. But there are some issues with DVD and CD rot that would concern me if I was looking for long term storage options.

Plus I'm certified in Veritas backup software, so I'm kinda picky sometimes. ;)

Dobro's comments are bang on though. Idealy you want to have more than one backup solution.
 
chrisharris said:
The CDR's I burned last night are in a different building than my house right now. I'd tell you where they are, but then you'd probably try to steal them, and I'd be back to my original problem...all files in 1 place = bad.
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I've been doing that for a couple years now and about 6 months ago I got a DVD burner which is vital IMO. I have one computer where I keep backups on it's hard drive then I burn to DVD and keep those at the office. So it sounds like your on track now. What I'm doing for work in progress is backing the projects up on DVD RW's....you might want to consider that for all those future projects you will be working on. :) ....er uh I mean those projects you will be "engineering" for Jaimee, LOL
 
I keep my projects on a external hard drive and when they're done burn them to DVD.

The thing about a external hard drive is to pay a little more to get the firewire port. Faster than USB.
 
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