Specifications

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8 From the Audio Media Options pop-up menu,
choose how you want to import audio files into
Pro Tools:
• If the audio files reside on a volume from
which Pro Tools can play back audio, select
Link to Source Media (Where Possible).
• If the audio files reside on a volume from
which Pro Tools cannot play back audio,
select Copy from Source Media to copy all au-
dio to the Pro Tools audio storage or Con-
solidate from Source Media to copy only
the portions of the audio used in the
Pro Tools Timeline to the Pro Tools audio
storage.
9 From the Video Media Options pop-up menu,
choose how you want to import video files into
Pro Tools:
• If the video files reside on a volume from
which Pro Tools can play back video, select
Link to Source Media.
• If the video files reside on a volume from
which Pro Tools cannot play back video, se-
lect Copy from Source Media to copy all
video to the Pro Tools video storage.
10 Change other parameters as desired. For
more information, see “Exporting Audio from
Pro Tools for Avid Editing Applications” on
page 42.
11 Click OK.
Pro Tools will create a new Audio Files folder, a
Fade Files folder, a Video Files folder, a
cache.wfm file, and a session file at the desig-
nated locations. This session will match the au-
dio file type, sample rate, and bit depth of the
audio in the OMF or AAF you selected.
Importing an AAF or OMF
Sequence into an Existing Session
You can import an AAF or OMF sequence con-
taining audio and video media into an existing
Pro Tools session.
To open and import audio and/or video tracks from
an OMF or AAF sequence:
1 Open an existing Pro Tools session.
2 Choose File > Import > Session Data, and
choose the AAF or OMF sequence that you wish
to import.
Any video imported into Pro Tools must be
the same frame rate as video already placed
in the Timeline.
Pro Tools cannot play video that is embed-
ded in an AAF or OMF sequence, but it can
read the video editing metadata when im-
ported into a satellite track. Do not use this
option if you want to import the video itself
into Pro Tools.
You can also open an AAF or OMF sequence
by dragging it from any location on your
computer or the DigiBase browser to the
Pro Tools Timeline.