Specifications

Chapter 17: Importing and Exporting Session Data 373
Conversion Quality Pop-Up Menu
This pop-up menu lets you select settings corre-
sponding to Pro Tools sample rate conversion set-
tings. The
Tweak Head (Slowest) option provides
the best results.
AAF/OMF Source Track
Translation Settings
Pro Tools provides specific options for “translat-
ing” audio clips when importing AAF sequences
or OMF files and sequences.
Import Rendered Audio Effects
Enabling the Import Rendered Audio Effects op-
tion imports clips as audio clips, retaining the ren-
dered effects (such as EQ) that were applied to the
clip. You may want to disable this if you plan to
use Pro Tools audio effects and audio processing
exclusively for your audio post production work.
The resulting audio with this setting disabled is the
unprocessed source material.
Import Clip Gain
The Import Clip Gain setting lets you import clip-
based gain settings, or ignore clip-based gain en-
tirely. Media Composer and other Avid products
provide clip-based gain to adjust the volume of an
individual audio clip.
Clip-based gain differs from standard Pro Tools
volume adjustments for an entire track, or volume
breakpoint automation. Enable this option to im-
port clip-based gain data from the incoming se-
quence.
Import Volume Automation
The Import Volume Automation setting lets you
import volume breakpoint automation, or ignore it
entirely. Media Composer and other Avid products
provide volume automation, for continuous vol-
ume change throughout a sequence.
Pan Odd Tracks Left/Even Tracks Right
The Pan Odd Tracks Left/Even Tracks Right set-
ting enables you to set the basic track pan setting so
that odd-numbered tracks translate with full-left
panning, and even-numbered tracks translate with
full-right panning. This is useful if you want to pan
the currently unpanned audio full-left or full-right.
Markers To Import
Avid Media Composer sequences can contain
metadata points called Markers that serve a similar
purpose to the Markers in Pro Tools, adding color-
coded contextual information to the timeline. Even
though markers are associated with specific tracks
in Media Composer, you can import markers into
Pro Tools without importing those tracks.
When exporting an AAF from Media Composer,
Marker information is included and can be im-
ported into Pro Tools, thus preserving this data.
Translation settings
The Pan Odd Tracks Left/Even Tracks Right
setting is not supported when importing
multi-channel audio tracks from an AAF.
When importing multi-channel tracks, the
setting is greyed-out and any imported stereo
channels are panned hard right and hard left.
Markers can only be imported from AAF
sequences.