mixing pro tools session in DP

HLStudios · Post by **HLStudios** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:54 pm

i have a client who lives in another city and wants me to mix his tracks in my studio..
h recorded it in another studio using PT7 and currently he has the pro tools session backups and is going to send them to me...
i know in order for me to open it, it has to be OMF format..is there an applicationi can use to convert it to OMF without actually opening the session in pro tools and exporting it??? he has no access to pro tools so he cant export the WAV files...anyone help???

Mr_Clifford · Post by **Mr_Clifford** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:20 pm

HLStudios wrote:.is there an applicationi can use to convert it to OMF without actually opening the session in pro tools and exporting it???

DigiTranslator

he has no access to pro tools so he cant export the WAV files...anyone help???

Or... if he sends you the Pro Tools session folder, you might be able to just import the audio files directly into DP. As long as the track names are labelled systematically (PT's auto naming is very good) and there aren't too many files on each track it should be possible. The timestamps will tell DP where to put the files on the timeline. This won't really be an option if there was lot's of editing/moving etc. within ProTools after the recording and the edits weren't consolodated.

pcm · Post by **pcm** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:46 pm

Your best bet is to find someone with PT and Digitranslator. Then you can import the sessions into DP with all the regions and edits intact, which more often than not is vital. Although OMF import into DP is pretty flakey, I would try that route first.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:15 am

How many songs?

vbassguy · Post by **vbassguy** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:43 am

You know, I keep a PT le rig in my studio for this very reason. I don't record to it. I don't mix with it. I simply open any PT session sent here and ready it to move over to my trusty DP environment. I have found this to be a cost effective approach. If my clientele requires a PT session when I am finished
with my work- I move it back over to PT. Everybody's happy.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:43 pm

I have an HD3 rig for the same reason.

EMRR · Post by **EMRR** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:09 am

Someone sent me a PT session recently that had no time stamps on WAV files; do they have to be manually written in PT? Did they forget during merging and export? I had to email the PT session, sans audio files, to someone who could take a million screen captures showing exact sample location of file beginnings, and build it manually.

Mr_Clifford · Post by **Mr_Clifford** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:58 pm

EMRR wrote:Someone sent me a PT session recently that had no time stamps on WAV files; do they have to be manually written in PT? Did they forget during merging and export? I had to email the PT session, sans audio files, to someone who could take a million screen captures showing exact sample location of file beginnings, and build it manually.

Did you drag the audio files into the track list in DP6.02? - That's a glitch in DP6.02. I thought the same thing recently with audio files I was bringing in from a Pro Tools recording session, until I discovered that if I imported the audio files via the 'import audio' dialog box the timestamps came in fine. In Pro Tools using Broadcast Wave, the timestamps are written automatically into the file (unlike SDII). Pro Tools has always been really solid with timestamping, unlike DP, unfortunately, which has been flakey since DP5.12 in this regard.

dosuna11 · Post by **dosuna11** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:11 pm

Mr_Clifford wrote:
EMRR wrote:Someone sent me a PT session recently that had no time stamps on WAV files; do they have to be manually written in PT? Did they forget during merging and export? I had to email the PT session, sans audio files, to someone who could take a million screen captures showing exact sample location of file beginnings, and build it manually.
Did you drag the audio files into the track list in DP6.02? - That's a glitch in DP6.02. I thought the same thing recently with audio files I was bringing in from a Pro Tools recording session, until I discovered that if I imported the audio files via the 'import audio' dialog box the timestamps came in fine. In Pro Tools using Broadcast Wave, the timestamps are written automatically into the file (unlike SDII). Pro Tools has always been really solid with timestamping, unlike DP, unfortunately, which has been flakey since DP5.12 in this regard.

Golden Info!

Have client consolidate his PT tracks to 1:00:00. Now just import and all tracks should audio tracks will line up in any DAW.

EMRR · Post by **EMRR** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:37 pm

Mr_Clifford wrote: Did you drag the audio files into the track list in DP6.02? - That's a glitch in DP6.02. I thought the same thing recently with audio files I was bringing in from a Pro Tools recording session, until I discovered that if I imported the audio files via the 'import audio' dialog box the timestamps came in fine. In Pro Tools using Broadcast Wave, the timestamps are written automatically into the file (unlike SDII). Pro Tools has always been really solid with timestamping, unlike DP, unfortunately, which has been flakey since DP5.12 in this regard.

Interesting. I did actually use the import method, as I was searching for the correct formatting which would avoid conversions. No stamps. I'll have to try it several more times and see if the results change.

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:38 pm

dosuna11 wrote:
Mr_Clifford wrote:
EMRR wrote:Someone sent me a PT session recently that had no time stamps on WAV files; do they have to be manually written in PT? Did they forget during merging and export? I had to email the PT session, sans audio files, to someone who could take a million screen captures showing exact sample location of file beginnings, and build it manually.
Did you drag the audio files into the track list in DP6.02? - That's a glitch in DP6.02. I thought the same thing recently with audio files I was bringing in from a Pro Tools recording session, until I discovered that if I imported the audio files via the 'import audio' dialog box the timestamps came in fine. In Pro Tools using Broadcast Wave, the timestamps are written automatically into the file (unlike SDII). Pro Tools has always been really solid with timestamping, unlike DP, unfortunately, which has been flakey since DP5.12 in this regard.
Golden Info!

Have client consolidate his PT tracks to 1:00:00. Now just import and all tracks should audio tracks will line up in any DAW.

What he said.

pcm · Post by **pcm** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:52 pm

EMRR wrote:Someone sent me a PT session recently that had no time stamps on WAV files; do they have to be manually written in PT? Did they forget during merging and export? I had to email the PT session, sans audio files, to someone who could take a million screen captures showing exact sample location of file beginnings, and build it manually.

I have never seen a PT session with .wav files that did not have timestamps. .AiF, yes, .wav no.

The easy solution likely would have been to create a new, blank session, and use IMPORT SESSION DATA to import all the tracks from the session in question. But prior to doing this, go to PREFERENCES, then to "Processing", and check the checkbox next to "Convert Imported .wav Files to AES31/Broadcast Wave". The imported files would then be assigned timestamps upon import. But as I said, I have never seen a .wav file in PT without a timestamp, so I would check further to see if there is something else amiss.

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