Bouncing a project to a finished file
What might be the most direct way to finish and export a file, bouncing as a term was coined during the analog days since the signal would “bounce” around different devices to end up on the record track. Keeping this phrase might seem outdated, but it also harkens to a time when bouncing in Pro Tools could only be done in real time to take advantage of its outboard gear. Now, there are different ways to bounce a track, but we’ll look at the most basic options and weigh up their pros and cons.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need a Pro Tools session with a few tracks and some audio clips present on the track.
How to do it…
We’re going to set up a session to bounce to a stereo audio file in both real time and offline mode. Follow along with these steps:
- In the Edit Window area, use Select Tool and highlight the portion of the project you’d like to export – you can click...
