Saving to CD-r?

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Allright...I have to post this here because you guys seem to know the most about this...
I have PT digi-001 and I have a song file that is too big to save to CD-R. It's about 800 MB. My CD-r only goes to 700 MB.

The Thing is that when I look in the audio files folder it has extra files in it. Files I want to delete. Files that were used to make comp tracks of the final tracks. But arent the same name as the final tracks. (I have deleted any unused tracks to free up space) I found that if I deleted a file which I thought had no bearing on the final tracks that I almost deleted the final tracks. Luckily I didnt save my work.

If anyone knows of an easier way to save my entire session onto CD-R I would appreciate it...As of right now I am just looking for ways to delete unused regions...(Like I said before...I have gone in and deleted unused files)...but the files that remain in the main file seem to be needed to run the session.

Can I compres the file some way and still not lose any sound quality?

Exactly what files do I have to save to make a session open up after it has been saved to disk?
Thanks...
 
I'm not familiar with Pro Tools, but other packages usually refer to the group of files as a "pool". Within that, there should be an option to delete unused files, or something similar.

As far as compressing, yes. You can compress audio files safely, without any loss, provided you're using file compression (like WinZip) as opposed to audio compression (MP3).
 
I'm not familiar with PT, but in Sonar you can safely delete the "picture files," which are the files that contain the drawings of the waveforms. Sonar just redraws them if it can't find them. I'm not sure how much space this would save.
 
you can also "compact" and audio file in ProTools. It doesn't compact as in a compressing software, but maybe it can help you. But beware that it's not undoable.
You can find it in page 199 of the manual. Page 197 deals with Hiding and Removing Unwanted Regions.

Cheers, Andrés
 
neirbo, deleting the waveform images would have a negligible effect on the project.

This doesn't really solve your problem of a folder that's got more than 700 MB total stuff in it, but I use a utility that splits large files into smaller pieces. I often have DV video files that are larger than 700MB, so I use FileSplit to break them up into two or more files, then put each on a CD-R and label it "Projectxyz Part 1 of n," "Projectxyz Part 2 of n," etc. If I need to get them back to work on, I can copy all the pieces back to the hard drive and reassemble them.
 
Thanks for the loads of responses guys...Let me redirect my question a little.
When I look to the right in an actuall PT session I see the file names of the tracks that am using. Sometimes there area few "outtakes" so I highlight them and delete them...Right?
everything looks cleanedup.

Well in the process of getting a good track I ended up bouncing down thru the busses a bunch of smaller parts. I delete the smaller parts from the right hand side of the screen and leave only the larger regions(bounced tracks)

But when I try to make a cd-r backup of my session I look into the audio files folder and their are extra tracks in there which are taking up space. I cant see these files from within my session but I believe all of these file are used to make up my final bounced tracks. I even tried to delete one of them and almost lost my whole bass track.

Why are these smaller fragments still needed? Is there a way to get rid of these files without destroying the main files that I want to keep?

Also...when I save a session to cd-r do I need to save the "Audio file" and also the file that I click on to open the session(thats the only name I have for this file)?
 
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