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Chapter 12: Importing and Exporting Session Data 211
Chapter 12: Importing and Exporting
Session Data
Pro Tools lets you import a variety of data into a
session, including audio and MIDI files, region
groups, video files, track playlists, I/O configura-
tions, and signal routing configurations.
You can import audio and MIDI files into a ses-
sion, or transfer entire audio or MIDI tracks,
along with all of their attributes, from another
session. Additionally, with Pro Tools HD, you
also have the option of importing any combina-
tion of track attributes from another session,
such as a track’s audio or MIDI playlists, signal
routing, plug-ins, or automation. See “Import-
ing Audio” on page 211 and “Importing Tracks
and Track Attributes” on page 218.
Importing Audio
Audio files and regions can be imported to new
tracks, or they can be imported into the Region
List, where they can be dragged to existing
tracks.
Pro Tools can automatically convert files that
don’t match the session’s audio file type, sample
rate, or bit depth. Audio files that don’t match
the session audio file type, sample rate, and bit
depth must be converted on import. Pro Tools
also splits interleaved audio files into multiple
mono files.
Files and regions can be auditioned before they
are imported.
If region definitions are present in an audio file,
you can convert and import the audio for a re-
gion without importing the entire parent audio
file.
To import or export video files, see
Chapter 36, “Working with Video in
Pro Tools”
Pro Tools 7.x does not support audio file
names that contain certain ASCII charac-
ters (see “Opening a Session that Contains
Audio File Names with Illegal Characters”
on page 243).