Specifications
Chapter 17: Importing and Exporting Session Data 359
Text Encoding
Pro Tools allows entry and display of any lan-
guage characters supported in Unicode anywhere
in the Pro Tools application. This lets you use mul-
tiple languages in session names, and in path
names, file names and clip names.
However, Pro Tools 7.3.x and lower does not sup-
port Unicode. When importing data from sessions
or OMF sequences created or saved with older ver-
sions of Pro Tools, you may need to identify the
language encoding used in the imported elements.
To choose the language encoding when importing
data from a legacy Pro Tools session:
1 Choose File > Import > Session Data.
2 Choose the language used in the legacy session
from the
Text Encoding pop-up menu.
Audio Media Options
The following Audio Media Options are available
in the Import Session Data dialog:
Link to Source Media (Where Possible)
This op-
tion lets you avoid duplicating audio files by refer-
ring to the original files when possible. If the
source files do not reside on supported playback
media (such as a CDs or DVDs), or if they require
bit depth or sample rate conversion, the source
files are copied instead. This option allows the cur-
rent session to refer to files that do not match the
current session’s audio file format.
Copy from Source Media
This option copies all
audio files related to the imported tracks from the
source media to a new specified location, and con-
verts the files to the current session’s audio file for-
mat, bit depth, and sample rate if necessary. This is
useful if you are importing tracks from a source
such as CD or DVDs or shared storage, and you
want to place the audio files on a different hard
drive.
Consolidate from Source Media
This option con-
solidates audio while copying it. This is useful if
you want to copy only the clips of the audio files
used in the source tracks, without copying unused
audio. This option copies and converts consoli-
dated audio to the current session’s audio file for-
mat, bit depth, and sample rate if necessary.
When you choose this option, you can also choose
the
Handle Size (in milliseconds) applied to con-
solidated audio. Handle is the amount of the origi-
nal audio file that is preserved before and after
each clip in case you need to make any edits (such
as applying fades or trimming) to the new clips.
Force to Target Session Format
This option cop-
ies and converts any files that do not match the cur-
rent session’s file format, bit depth, and sample
rate. Files that do match the current session’s file
type, bit depth and sample rate are referred to di-
rectly and not copied.
Consolidate From Source Media is not avail-
able when importing Elastic Audio tracks.