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4 If you are exporting to an 8-bit file, enable the
Use Squeezer option. This optimizes the dy-
namics of the exported audio by preprocessing
it using compression, limiting, and gating be-
fore conversion to 8-bit resolution (for more in-
formation, see “Use Squeezer” on page 1088).
5 To share with SoundCloud, select the Share
with SoundCloud option (see “Share with
SoundCloud” on page 1089).
6 Select an option for how Pro Tools should re-
solve duplicate file names.
Prompting for Each Duplicate Prompts you for a
file name for any file that has the same name as a
file in your destination directory.
Auto Renaming Automatically changes the name
of any duplicate file by adding a number at the end
of the file name (such as file_01).
Replacing with New Files Replaces files with the
same name with the new files.
7 Click Export to export the new audio files.
Exporting Stereo or
Multichannel Interleaved Files
You can use the Export Clips as Files command to
export audio clips to stereo or multichannel inter-
leaved files for use in other applications.
(Pro Tools cannot use interleaved files directly in
the Timeline—these must be converted into multi-
ple mono files.) For example, for this to work with
a stereo file, the selected clips must have identical
names with “.L” and “.R” suffixes (for instance,
vocals_01.L and vocals_01.R). These clips appear
as a stereo clip in the Clip List.
Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete Pro-
duction Toolkit also let you bounce multichannel
interleaved files of any supported file type.
To export clips as a stereo or multichannel
interleaved file:
1 Select the stereo or multichannel audio clip in
the Clip List or in the track playlist. If the clips
appear on mono tracks in the session, select the
two mono clips.
2 From the Clip List menu, choose Export Clips
as Files
.
3 In the Export Selected dialog, select Stereo In-
terleaved
in the Format pop-up menu. For mul-
tichannel clips, the
Stereo Interleaved option
produces a multichannel interleaved file.
4 Configure any other output settings, then click
Export to export the new stereo interleaved file.
Exporting Clip Definitions
Pro Tools stores clip definitions for audio files
within each session. If you want to use an audio
file’s clips in another session, or with another ap-
plication that supports them, you can export the
clip information.
The
Export Clip Definitions command does not ex-
port clips as audio files (unlike the
Export Clips as
Files
command). Instead, it stores pointers to the
clips within the parent source file.
To export clip definitions for an audio file:
1 In the Clip List, select any clips or clip groups
for which you want to export definitions. You
do not have to select the parent file audio clip.
2 Choose Export Clip Definitions from the Clip
List menu.
3 Click Export.
If you plan to transfer Pro Tools session
data to another session, you should export
clip definitions for sessions containing mul-
tiple takes created with Loop Record.