Hi everyone!
I am currently working on two separate Cubase projects which both contain the same audio clips in their respective audio folder. I was wondering if it is possible to import Audio Tracks from one project to the other without importing the audio clips on those tracks which would be duplicates and instead somehow automatically relink the imported Audio to the identical files already inside the “Main” project audio folder. Manually relinking clips in the pool isn’t an option, since the project is quite large with hundreds of audio files that would need relinking.
The only option that comes to mind is importing the tracks without copying the data, manually move the audio folder of the “old” project, and then relinking to the identical files in the “main” audio folder when the new project doesn’t find the audio files from the “old” project it’s still referencing. Is that the way to go or is there another (maybe even built-in) solution?
Thanks for the help!
Tim
Hi,
If you are sharing an Audio tracks accross multiple projects, you can change the source Audio file (destructively) on one side. The other will follow. But you have to print/bounce the changes into the source audio file.
Hi Martin, thanks for helping!
I’m not quite sure what you mean by printing/bouncing the changes into the source audio file. To what changes are you referring to? The ones made in the “side” project?
I’ve tried my method in an even simpler way, but it didn’t work:
I have a main project. To select the best takes of a flute recording session I did in my “main” project, I copy the main project and set up a side project in another folder.
When I open the side project, it doesn’t find the audio files since they are in the audio folder of the main project. I relink them to the main project audio folder.
After selecting takes, doing crossfades (but nothing that would generate new files e.g. Melodyne ARA or bouncing or something similar), I want to import the “best flute takes”-Audio Track back into my main project. When importing, I disable “copy files to project folder”, since I don’t want duplicates.
But Cubase automatically creates some kind of proxy file link and calls the reimported “flute” audio file “flute (2)”. In the pool, I can confirm that the original audio file (“flute”) and the new proxy audio file (“flute (2)”) both have the same file path and point to the same original file (see picture). Is there a way to get around this?
Since I split up my projects into a lot of side projects, I end up with a pool folder containing like 8 versions of the same recording all pointing to the same original file. This clutters up my pool immensely.
Thank you for helping out, I’m sorry if my description is a bit convoluted!