Any way to move entire scenes between live sets?

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mortalengines
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Any way to move entire scenes between live sets?

Post by mortalengines » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:02 am

Just wondering if there is any way to move entire scenes (or groups) between live sets. I often start with some monkeying around with a new file & then find myself completely resequencing the track when I want to add it to my "live" set for playing out. There's gotta be an easier way. Also is there any way to select & move entire groups of scenes to cut or move around within a live set?

longjohns
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Post by longjohns » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:44 pm

yes

drag the scene to the browser. in live 6 it will be saved as a project folder, in which will be an .als file with the scene number.

then you can drag this into other sets

mortalengines
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Post by mortalengines » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:51 am

Cool I'll try this today...I hope that this ability is not restricted to Live 6 as I am still using Live 5.

longjohns
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Post by longjohns » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:13 am

i think it will work very similarly -

strike what i said about the project folder - that's live 6 - but the collection of clips which comprise the scene should still get saved as an .als file

Sphinxter
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Post by Sphinxter » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:18 am

If it doesn't work in Live 5, you can always select what you want to transfer and 'copy' it. Then open the new session and 'paste'.

I used to do that until I found out about the drag and drop into browser. Thanks longjohns :D

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