Track list, clip list and audio files of a Pro Tools session
Pro Tools can print a session's contents with Export Session Info as Text, but only from inside Pro Tools. This tool makes the same lists, and more, from the session file alone: useful for a spotting list, a cue sheet, a delivery check or simply to know what a session you received holds.
The lists
A spreadsheet (.xlsx, and the same sheets as CSV files) with:
- Tracks: number, name, kind, channel format, folder, hidden, inactive and muted states, colour, timebase, clip count, inserts, output and comments.
- Clips: every clip on every track and channel, with start, end and duration as timecode (with hundredths of a frame) and in samples and seconds, the source file, the channel of a multichannel file, the offset into the file, the source timecode, clip group, mute and fade lengths.
- Audio files: name, the folder it was in when the session was saved, sample rate, bit depth, channels, length, time stamp and how many clips use it.
- Markers: number, name, timecode, sample position and comments.
- Inserts: the plug-ins on each track in slot order.
- Tempo and meter: every tempo, meter and key change.
There is also a text file in the layout of Pro Tools' own text export (session header, files, clips, plug-ins, track listing with every event, markers), for scripts and tools written for it.
Finding missing audio
Upload the session folder as a .zip and every audio file the session uses is looked up in it.
The audio file list then says for each file whether it was found, and where; the warnings name the
files the tracks play that are missing, before anyone opens the session.
Timecode
Times use the session's own timecode rate and start (23.976, 24, 25, 29.97 or 30 frames), with hundredths of a frame rounded the way Pro Tools rounds them. Clips are listed between their edit points, as the edit window shows them; the text file lists them the way Pro Tools' own text export does, with fades as events of their own.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Pro Tools Session Converter (PTX, PTF, PTS).