After you click ‘Clear,’ you will see a popup ask if you would like to “REMOVE selected regions from this session, or permanently DELETE selected source files from disk?”.

With your unused regions are selected, right-click one of them and press the ‘clear’ selection.

After you choose this or hit the quick keys, a bunch of the regions become highlighted like in the image below.

You can also do this by pressing ‘Shift + Command + U’

Go to the top of the regions lists and open its drop menu.

Once you open the copied session, reveal your regions list on the right side of your edit window.

By default, it will be named ‘copy of’ followed by the name of the original session. If you’ve already read the blog or know how to, continue the tutorial.Īfter we have our session copied, close the original session and open the copy you made to your desktop. You may want to rename it for alphabetical reasons. If you do not know how to ‘Save Copy In,’ we go over that as well in ‘ Exporting Sessions In Pro Tools. Learn ‘Save Copy In’ before continuing. Save your copy to your desktop for this tutorial. Lets make a copy to send offįirst you will want to make a copy of the session you are going to be sending off. This is best for preparing a session you will be sending off to be mixed. If you use the method in this tutorial, you will not be able to retrieve any alternate takes if you decide to use them later on. We suggest that in most cases you follow the steps laid out in our Exporting Sessions In Pro Tools blog unless you are absolutely sure you will not need any takes that are hidden in alternate playlists.

You don’t want to have a bigger file than you need when sending it over the internet. Sometimes they can get out of hand through a lot of tracking takes and editing regions. It’s important for everybody making music in Pro Tools to know how to reduce the size of a session.

How to reduce wav file size