Consolidating and archiving a project

We like to hope that once a project is done, that’s it – we can call it a day and move on to another project. In truth, you may need to revisit a project long after it has been released. I once had a project I worked on that needed a change in music due to some unfortunate licensing issues 10 years after it was completed. Had I not held onto an archive, I could have still fallen back to the stems, but the way the music was mixed in this specific project would have made it a lot harder.

Now, it’s possible to simply compress or just copy an entire session folder as is to an external storage system, but often, a project’s clip list gets bloated with material that’s not needed for long-term archiving. It’s also possible that you may have (intentionally or not) audio files that are saved outside of the session folder. We’ll use the features in the Clip List area to remove unused files, then the Save...