You most complex project: How many events, how many media files?

SonyEPM wrote on 6/5/2003, 4:12 PM
Title says it all- I'm trying to get a feel for the complexity of your biggest baddest projects.

So, open your most complex project,

Edit details shows how many events?
Media pool shows how many open files?

also:
How many separate tracks?
Project duration?

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FYI: I went through MANY veg files we have here and ...Pipeline holds the current record with 3712 events (not counting inactive takes). He just sent me this one.

A 90 minute sundance film festival entry is #2 at 2534 events.

Comments

PipelineAudio wrote on 6/5/2003, 5:22 PM
:)

sad isnt it, thats a two song file I sent you...then to compare, I just opened one from a tight band, 13 songs, after a LITTLE rendering 520 events. It pays to practice, but I guess it pays ME when they dont :)
Rednroll wrote on 6/5/2003, 7:14 PM
Hey Dave, you forgot about the one where you had to save my ass where I did so many edits that after I saved the project and tried to reopen it, my computer would just sit there and spin.

That was the CD I was putting together for a demo where I had 5 songs and for each I had to make it switch from Stereo to Mono every .3seconds, .5 seconds, 1 second and 3 seconds. It looked like a big checker board when I was finished editing.

I ended up splitting it into 5 different .Veg projects and rendering each and then creating a master .Veg CD assembly of the rendered tracks, because I couldn't open the entire project anymore. In the original .Veg project when all was said and done I had 3,912 events, but only 5 media files. Total length was only 39 1/2 minutes. I think my fingers are still sore from hitting the "S" key so many times.
Foreverain4 wrote on 6/6/2003, 8:43 AM
well, i dont have that many events, but i did a live cd that had 32 tracks for pretty much every song. the project was recorded to DA88's first then transfered digitally to vegas for editing and mixing. there were 12 songs totaling 57min 23 sec. i was running waves eq and compression on many of the tracks and some reverbs as well. there was one song that stuttered a bit every now and then, but other than that, rock solid.
SonyEPM wrote on 6/6/2003, 9:02 AM
Ok, my mistake. Red's is bigger than Pipeline's <g>
CDM wrote on 6/6/2003, 9:34 AM
I have a simple 6 hr. audiobook project with not that many edits coming in at 5,940 events.

two media files, though.

:)
stakeoutstudios wrote on 6/7/2003, 5:03 AM
umm, so when bands come in to record, do you record all the tracks they do on one timeline - or do each song as a different project? (this is what I do)
PipelineAudio wrote on 6/7/2003, 5:07 AM
I used to do each song on a different file, but nowdays its cheaper to make an " ok : album that is also cheap to master by throwing it all on one file
stakeoutstudios wrote on 6/7/2003, 6:33 AM
hmm, for doing things this way - we could sure use the tempo / time signature change function.

However - I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with having all the songs on one screen - I do each song so differently.

I see why you'd do it as a quick and dirty though, or if a band came in to record live or something.
drbam wrote on 6/7/2003, 8:49 AM
Wow! That approach would make me nervous as hell! If a file or something else got corrupted/damaged it seems to me that it *could* be a nightmare to sort out and fix and in the meantime the entire project might be shut down. You got more nerve than I do Pipe! ;-D

drbam
CDM wrote on 6/7/2003, 10:14 AM
I definitely do a separate project per song. I don't see how you could do it otherwise... same effects for each song?? Or 1000 tracks and many too many plugins
tmrpro wrote on 6/7/2003, 12:12 PM
I'm with DrBam and Webpuppy on this one... of coarse I don't speak from experience of tracking with Vegas (as I hope everyone knows by now) BUT ....

....I would NEVER, under any circumstances, put more than one song in multitrack form under a single timeline/template. This is very scary.

Dang Pipe & Red, I will say this: You guys have a lot more guts than I do.
PipelineAudio wrote on 6/7/2003, 12:49 PM
well heres how it is. In these cases its all in one project, but you keep making backups and such as you go, its no trouble.

You do it this way when the band says " oh we are so good, we have been playing together for a WHOLE year, and each of us has been playing at least two years, we rock. Were so good that we are going to spend a WHOLE DAY to track and mix 12 songs"

Individual mixes are not really an option in this case.

UNLESS

As far back as I've been asking for auto input, Ive been asking for a "switch to template" function, where you could save all your settings a certain way, then on another song pop up the saved tamplate. Opening two copies of vegas is cool for this too.

Im surprised, I was always the " one song per file " guy back in the day, and it was everyone else telling me to do it this way :)

Still with a normal project with a decent budget at all, its individuals for me