Specifications

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Deleting Catalogs
To delete a Catalog:
1 Select one or more Catalogs in the Workspace
browser.
2 Press the Delete key, or choose Delete Selected
from the Browser menu. A warning dialog ap-
pears.
3 In the warning dialog, do one of the following:
• Click
Cancel to cancel the delete operation.
• Click
Delete Files to delete aliases and associ-
ated files from disk.
• Click
Delete Aliases to delete only the aliases
and not the associated files.
This operation cannot be undone.
Importing Catalog Items
You can import online and offline items from Cat-
alogs into the current session.
Importing Online Items from a Catalog
Dragging and dropping audio files to the Pro Tools
Clip List and Timeline is identical to dragging and
dropping from Volume browsers.
Importing Offline Items from a Catalog
With Catalogs, it is possible to search and import
files that are offline. For example, if you have a
music cue that you know you want to use, but it re-
sides on a CD-ROM or other unmounted volume,
you can spot the file from a Catalog to the session
Timeline, and it is automatically imported into the
session when the volume is mounted.
The first step is to add files to a Catalog (files must
be online to be added to a Catalog). Once added to
a Catalog, if the items are taken offline they are
listed in italicized text.
Offline files can be dropped from a Catalog to the
Timeline just like online files. When you drop the
files, a dialog appears asking if you want to relink
the files or skip relinking. Click
Skip All to load all
the items as offline files (in the Timeline, their
clips appear in light blue). In the Project browser,
these items are listed in the Render Sources folder,
to ensure that Pro Tools remembers that these
items need to be relinked.
Whenever the volume containing the offline items
is mounted, Pro Tools automatically starts to im-
port the files, in the background. This is true even
if you have saved the session, quit, and relaunched
Pro Tools.
Once the items are completely imported, they ap-
pear as online items in the Timeline, Clip List, and
in the Project browser.
If the offline items match the session sample rate,
bit depth, and file format, no conversion is neces-
sary. As long as the volume is playable, the items
become playable in the session as soon as the vol-
ume is mounted.
If the volume is unsuitable for playback, you are
informed that some items must be copied to suit-
able volumes first.
For more information, see “Importing Files
with Drag and Drop” on page 339.
For more information on Transfer files, miss-
ing files, and relinking, see “Relink Window”
on page 317.