Split up a long project - how?

Cubase
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All cut-and-pastes will leave tracks at their full 3 hour length, even in a new project, regardless of how long it ‘appears’ in each song. Certainly, that would take up a lot of disk space on the project drive and where you back them up to.

As far as I can see, I would approach it in this way:

  1. Save the master project, to have something to pinch from when necessary.

  2. For each song:

  • 2.1 Set up the markers.

  • 2.2 For each track:

    • 2.2.1 Export to a separate file, not importing into the project, but naming so you can identify each song and track for use at step 5.2.1.

  1. Save the master project to another project folder.

  2. In the CLONED project:

  • 4.1 Setup group and FX tracks.

  • 4.2 Insert FX to be used on every track.

  • 4.3 Set levels and FX parameters to ballpark values.

  • 4.4 Remove all audio clips, but leave the audio tracks themselves.

  • 4.5 Delete files in the Pool.

  • 4.6 Save the project, just-in-case.

  • 4.7 Save as a template.

  1. For each song:

  • 5.1 Using the template from 4.7, create a new project into its own folder.

  • 5.2 For each track:

    • 5.2.1 Drag and drop the audio file exported at 2.2.1 to the start of the track.

  • 5.3 Save the project.

  1. Mix each project independently.