Specifications

Chapter 10: File Management and Compatibility 133
Moving Sessions Between
Platforms with MacOpener
(Using HFS/HFS+ Drives)
MacOpener 6.0.5 and higher lets you mount
HFS/HFS+ drives on a Windows-based Pro Tools
system, as a Transfer drive. See “Creating and
Saving Cross-Platform Sessions” on page 132.
To share Pro Tools sessions between Macintosh
and Windows systems, select the “Enforce
Mac/PC Compatibility” option when creating
the session, or when saving a session copy.
To install and configure the MacOpener demo
included with Pro Tools (Windows):
1 Insert the Pro Tools Installer CD in your CD-
ROM drive.
2 Locate and double-click the MacOpener in-
staller file. Follow the onscreen instructions to
install the MacOpener. After installation is com-
plete, restart your computer.
3 Choose Start > Programs > MacOpener > Mac-
Opener Driver Preferences.
4 Verify that the MacOpener Driver is enabled.
Under Driver Settings, select “Enable
MacOpener Driver.”
5 Under Extension Mapping, select “Do not add
the PC extension to the Mac file name.”
MacOpener Performance Limitations
•To open a session from an HFS/HFS+ drive, the
session must be created with Pro Tools 5.1.1
or higher. In addition, the session must not
contain mixed audio file formats. To use
mixed-format sessions in Pro Tools, first save a
copy of the session and convert its files to a
supported file format using the Save Session
Copy In command.
• When using the Bounce To Disk command,
the bounce destination must be a FAT/FAT32
or NTFS drive. Bouncing to HFS/HFS+ drives is
not supported.
• Opening sessions is slower on HFS/HFS+
drives than FAT/FAT32 or NTFS drives.
• Because MacOpener must clear the disk cache
after copying between HFS/HFS+ drives and
FAT/FAT32 or NTFS drives, Pro Tools will
launch very slowly after performing these disk
copies.
• For SDII files to appear in the Import Audio di-
alog, you must set the File Of Type pop-up
menu to “All Files.”
• On Pro Tools LE for Windows, if you select all
files listed in the Import Audio dialog, and
any these files have long names (13 or more
characters), no files will be added to the im-
port list when you click Convert All. These
files can be added to the list by Shift-clicking
their file names individually.
The MacDrive Utility can be used instead of
MacOpener. Refer to the MacDrive Website
(www.macdrive.com).
While SDII files can be exported or con-
verted on import, they cannot be used
within Pro Tools sessions on Windows.
All formatting and maintenance of
HFS/HFS+ drives should be carried out
when the drive is connected to a Macintosh.