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Chapter 18: File and Session Management and Compatibility 385
• HEAT (if present) is removed (Pro Tools HD
8.1 and higher sessions with HEAT option
only).
Groups
• Mix Groups keep only Main Volume informa-
tion.
• Mix/Edit Groups keep only Main Volume and
Automation Mode information.
• Automation overflow information for
grouped controls is be preserved.
• Group behavior of Solos, Mutes, Send Levels,
Send Mutes is be preserved.
• Solo Mode and Solo Latch settings are
dropped.
Video
• Only the main video track is displayed.
• Only the first QuickTime movie in the session
is displayed or played back.
• If the session contains QuickTime movies in
the Region List but no video track, the session
opens with a new QuickTime Movie track
containing the first QuickTime movie from
the Region List.
• The Timeline displays and plays back only the
video playlist that was last active. Alternate
video playlists are not available.
Sharing Sessions Created on
Different Pro Tools Software
Versions
Pro Tools makes it easy to share sessions be-
tween different software versions of a particular
Pro Tools system.
See the following:
• “Sharing Pro Tools HD 9.0 Sessions with
Lower Versions of Pro Tools” on page 385
• “Sharing Pro Tools 9.0 Sessions with
Pro Tools LE” on page 390
Sharing Pro Tools HD 9.0
Sessions with Lower Versions
of Pro Tools
Opening Pro Tools HD 9.0
Sessions with Pro Tools HD 8.1
and 8.5
A Pro Tools HD 9.0 session can be opened with
Pro Tools HD 8.1 and 8.5, but certain session
components open differently or not at all.
When opening a Pro Tools 9.0 session with
Pro Tools 8.1 or 8.5, you are warned that
you are opening a session created with a
newer version of Pro Tools and that not all
session components will be available.