[Ardour-Users] Cleaning up unused regions

[Wayne]

Il giorno mer, 05/10/2011 alle 07.42 -0400, Thomas Vecchione ha
scritto: 

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think you can create new regions from the old ones by using "playhead"
> > edit mode, then right-click->edit->split (at the bottom somewhere).
> >
> > Do that around the audio you want to keep, and then select the regions that
> > you don't need, hit del, and Session->cleanup like normal..?
> >
> > Haven't tried it out here, but that should work AFAICS :) -Harry
> >
> 
> Nope.
> 
> A region != audio file. (See earlier on in the tech ref, don't have a
> link to it right now).  This will not remove any audio file that is
> the source of any region, which all you are doing with the split
> command is creating a new region with the source of the same audio
> file.  Hope that makes sense.
> 
> If you bounced the portion after you split it, Ardour would create a
> new audio file for it, and then you could delete all instances of the
> old region or other regions with the same source.  Then you could
> cleanup, and after you closed and reopened Ardour you could flush the
> wastebasket(Intentionally designed this way) and that would remove
> unsued audio which your original recordings would be now.  Personally
> this method would be far to prone for error on larger track count
> recording sessions for my comfort so I don't recommend it, but to each
> their own.


    along the same lines: i have always been looking for a way to remove
only the regions that are not associated with any (used or unused)
playlist?  it seems like session cleanup will remove all regions not
associated with an active region (i.e. regions that are only in unused
playlists), as well as the currently unused playlists themselves.  what
i am looking for is a way to remove regions that may have been
created/etc, but are currently not used by any playlist, selected/active
or unused.

    this would help in sessions with lots of editing and thus
creation/throwing away of regions, to help lower the region count (which
seems to slow down saves to a few to ~8 seconds, at least on A2,
depending on the number of regions of course).  as i use playlists
extensively for takes and alternate mixes, the ability to throw out
regions that are "orphaned" from any playlist would be great.  i will
file a feature request if this is not already possible in A2or A3.

    note that i have tried the "delete unused" option in the region
list, but again, it seems to remove regions that are associated with
unused playlists.

    finally, how does cleanup deal with a region that is still
referenced in a snapshot, but not in the current session?

    thanks in advance.

peace



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