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Bounce Factory - How To Bounce Different Sessions?

By Lance Crowder @Lance_Crowder
    2022-12-07 20:46:17.237Z

    Hi There,

    My team and I are looking into switching from BounceButler to Bounce Factory. The only drawback to Bounce Factory seems to be I cannot figure out how to bounce different sessions in the batch bounce. Other than that, it seems far superior. We mix almost 2 songs a day so we run stem prints overnight. With Bounce Butler - you dont have
    to intervene to start new stem prints.

    Am I missing something here or can you only bounce one protools session at a time?

    Any help is appreciated!

    Thanks

    • 4 replies
    1. @Andrew_Scheps could give a better explanation but in a nutshell, everything in BF is centered around the concept of Snapshots which includes the the session that is open and the state of everything within the session at the time the snapshot was taken (volume levels, mute states, insert settings etc).

      So you just need to create a list of snapshots of the mixes you need printed.
      The session to be printed is contained within the snapshot.

      If you haven't watched the videos for BF yet here is the first one:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGgZPZIq_lw

      1. In reply toLance_Crowder:
        Andrew Scheps @Andrew_Scheps
          2022-12-08 17:08:57.636Z

          Hi @Lance_Crowder ,

          You can absolutely bounce different sessions! The good thing about Bounce Factory is that if you're talking about different sessions of the same song (for instance), you don't even need to have different sessions. Bounce Factory can solo, mute, change plugins, automation, switch playlists etc etc so the different versions can all be bounced in the same session (and put on tracks or playlists if you want that).

          If you mean different sessions of different material, it does that as well. I very often set up the snapshots for an entire record, click Bounce All and go to bed.

          If the videos aren't clear (and some are a little outdated, there have been a ton of features added since I made them) let me know and we can set up a Zoom to run you through it.

          Thanks,
          Andrew

          1. LLance Crowder @Lance_Crowder
              2023-01-16 15:37:05.897Z

              Thank you so much for answering. I actually ended up having an engineer friend call me and show me how to set it up. It was incredibly simple. Thank you!

              1. Andrew Scheps @Andrew_Scheps
                  2023-01-16 16:47:24.024Z

                  Awesome!