TONS of unused time at the end of sessions

I have ridiculously huge amounts of time at the end of all my sessions (hundreds of hours?). I have tried Cut Time and every other trick I can think of to get rid of this... does someone know how to do it?

what is your default record time set at?

enable the ALL group, park the cursor at the end of the audio and hit Option/Shift/Return then press delete.

mazurek that is a nice tip am i guessin that also clear embedded automation in sends and hidden volume etc? can't wait to try that...that is a real time save in searching for anamolies especially those querying onces that are sometimes gifts from the previous engineer's session from another studio terrifc thanks will use this one a lot

It didn't work for me... am I doing something wrong? - Enabled 'all' group - Put the cursor after the last audio - Hit option/shift/return - ...and delete. Nothing happened. I also tried selecting the whole area after the audio and doing the command. I mean, if God wants me to start doing 811-minute songs, I'll do it, but...

It's funny, almost exactly a year ago, I decided to attempt to "Tackle" or at least understand, that in hundreds of sessions, on MANY pro-tools rig's, I could never get the "Edit Window Default Length" dialog, to do anything. So... I started Which if you follow... I basicly "Stumped" the Digi tech support guy. As far as I'm concerned, it was abandoned as an "Unsolved Mystery of the D.U.C" and I've spent another year, on LE Mac, LE PC, TDM HD Accel, both mac and PC, playing with the "Edit Window Default Length" dialog, setting it to 2 seconds, 1 minute.... Fact is, no matter what this dialog is set at, when you first create your session, and highlight across the timeline, it WILL be the length specified in your default lenght dialog.... BUT.... The moment you "Fully scroll out" it becomes the maximum length 745:blah:blah There seems no way to "Confine" the edit window to any set time... this dialog does nothing more then set your intial "Full zoom parameter" for the session.

Actually, you CAN get rid of the unused space. Do this "enable the ALL group, park the cursor at the end of the audio and hit Option/Shift/Return then press delete. " BUT, you have to hold CONTROL and THEN press delete. This will delete ALL hidden automation or anything in the selected space. Then double-click the Magnify Tool, and your session should zoom out to its full length, which should now only be the length of your song. MT

Yes... that will "Reset" the Zoom tool, and as I stated above, This is all the "Edit Window Default Length" dialog does. "reset's the zoom tool" Even when Double clicking the zoom tool, returns the edit window view to the exact, perfect centered size of your session, you can immediately hold Command, and press "]" until you are fully zoomed out to over 700 minutes of timeline. forget automation, or regions beyond the specified session length. Set the Edit Window Default Length in your preferences dialog to 5:000.00 Close pro-tools Open Pro-Tools - create a new session. create an audio track. drag the select tool across the entire track... it stops at 5 min. now.... Command + ] zoom all the way out, and you will get over 700 minutes of timeline. There are no regions, or automation, there is just a blank track, that will zoom out to well over 700 minutes.

Ok, I see what you are saying. But as long as you can double-click the Magnify Tool, and it re-sizes your session to show only your song length in the edit window, this behavior is not a problem. Command- [ all the way out does go all the way to 700 minutes, but at least the double-click magnify tool, re-sizes the VIEW back to normal. Only when you double-click Magnify and it makes your 5 minute song a thin visual slice (among the 700 minutes of blank space), is it a problem. Thats where the Control-Delete thing works to refresh what protools will show as the default edit window view based on your longest region length. It seems like the 'default length' pref is a suggestion, with leeway in case you end up needing more space if you end up, say, recording past your default session length. This way , you dont have to tailor your session length pref. But yes, I would like to see it LOCK the session length time. However, what is bothersome about this behavior? Like I said, as long as I can quicky resize my view to show my longest region only, it doesnt matter that Command-[ will zoom out to 700 minutes, cuz I just wont hit it that many times. MT p.s. The odd thing, is that I dont think this behavior is global among all Protools versions. I seem to run into it kind of randomly but maybe it only happens to be when I actually end up zooming out all the way for some random reason..