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Organizing after recording

Organizing after recording - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Organizing after recording

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- [Instructor] After completing your initial recording, you may have some housekeeping to do to keep your session organized and manageable. Here, we'll discuss the steps you should take after recording to keep the audio you want and get rid of the audio you don't. We'll look at how to recognize audio files and clips in the clip list, how to rename clips if needed, how to remove unwanted clips, and how to delete files to recover disk space. The session I have open represents the results after recording parts for a simple piece of background music. Now, immediately after finishing a recording, you'll want to take any record-enabled tracks out of record mode. Otherwise, you may end up accidentally overwriting the audio on one of those tracks while you're recording on another unrelated track later on. Keep in mind, that record-enabled tracks remain record-enabled until you manually disarm them. Now, each record take that you complete on a track is represented by a clip on the track's…

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