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Open old Pro Tools sessions (.ptf and .pts) (Beta)

Sessions from Pro Tools 5 to 9 opened without an old Mac or an old Pro Tools: tracks, clips, fades and markers.

Opens: PTX, PTF, PTS, ZIP
Saves: RPP (REAPER), XML (Premiere, Resolve), FCPXML (Logic Pro), OTIO, EDL, MIDI, XLSX, CSV, HTML, PNG

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    The session file (.ptx from Pro Tools 10 and later, .ptf from 7 to 9, .pts from 5 and 6), or a .zip of the whole session folder with its Audio Files folder. With the folder, the audio is checked and can be packed with the REAPER project.

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    Where the session folder is on the computer you will open the results on, for example D:\Sessions\My Song or /Users/me/Music/My Song. The Premiere, Logic and OTIO files then point at the audio there. Left empty, they point where it was when the session was saved. The REAPER project finds the audio when it is saved in the session folder either way.

    When the session folder was uploaded as a .zip with its audio, also render every track to one WAV file (clips, fades and crossfades as edited; volume, pan and plug-ins are not applied). All files start at the same point, so they line up in Ableton Live, Studio One, Cubase, FL Studio or any other program.

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    When the session folder was uploaded as a .zip, also make a .zip of the REAPER project with every audio file it plays in place, ready to unpack and open.

    Your files are deleted after processing.

    Open old Pro Tools sessions (.ptf and .pts)

    Sessions from Pro Tools 5 to 9 sit on old drives and backup discs: .pts files from Pro Tools 5 and 6, often saved on PowerPC Macs, and .ptf files from Pro Tools 7, 8 and 9. Opening them in Pro Tools means a current Pro Tools that converts them first. This tool reads them directly, on any computer.

    What is read

    • Pro Tools 5 and 6 (.pts): the audio files, the clips (regions) and where each one plays on every track. These sessions have no separate track list, so each playlist becomes a track, in order.
    • Pro Tools 7 to 9 (.ptf): tracks with their kinds (audio, MIDI, instrument, aux, master) and mute states, regions and where they play, MIDI notes, and the plug-ins on every track, instruments included.
    • .ptf files saved by Pro Tools 10 and later for older versions are read the same way.

    What you can do with them

    • Get a REAPER project with every region in place, and open the session again without Pro Tools.
    • Take the MIDI out of instrument tracks as a Standard MIDI File with the tempo map.
    • Bring the edit into Logic Pro (FCPXML), Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve (XML, EDL).
    • Upload the old session folder as a .zip to have every track rendered as a WAV file, so the project can be rebuilt in any program even if the session will never open again.
    • Read the report to see what the session needs, including the original folder of every audio file (handy when the audio was on a different drive than the session).

    Damaged or cut files

    Old sessions copied from failing drives are sometimes cut short. If the file is incomplete, the tool says so instead of guessing; the Session File Backups folder, when there is one, often holds a complete copy from a few minutes earlier.

    More about what this tool reads and writes: Pro Tools Session Converter (PTX, PTF, PTS).

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