Specifications
What’s New in Pro Tools 9.038
Importing Catalog Items
You can import online and offline items from
Catalogs into the current session.
Importing Online Items from a Catalog
Dragging and dropping audio files to the
Pro Tools Region List and Timeline is identical
to dragging and dropping from Volume
browsers.
Importing Offline Items from a Catalog
With Catalogs, it is possible to search and im-
port files that are offline. For example, if you
have a music cue that you know you want to
use, but it resides on a CD-ROM or other un-
mounted volume, you can spot the file from a
Catalog to the session Timeline, and it is auto-
matically imported into the session when the
volume is mounted.
The first step is to add files to a Catalog (files
must be online to be added to a Catalog). Once
added to a Catalog, if the items are taken offline
they are listed in italicized text.
Offline files can be dropped from a Catalog to
the Timeline just like online files. When you
drop the files, a dialog appears asking if you
want to relink the files or skip relinking. Click
Skip All to load all the items as offline files (in the
Timeline, their regions appear in light blue). In
the Project browser, these items are listed in the
Render Sources folder, to ensure that Pro Tools
remembers that these items need to be relinked.
Whenever the volume containing the offline
items is mounted, Pro Tools automatically starts
to import the files, in the background. This is
true even if you have saved the session, quit,
and relaunched Pro Tools.
Once the items are completely imported, they
appear as online items in the Timeline, Region
List, and in the Project browser.
If the offline items match the session sample
rate, bit depth, and file format, no conversion is
necessary. As long as the volume is playable, the
items become playable in the session as soon as
the volume is mounted.
If the volume is unsuitable for playback, you are
informed that some items must be copied to
suitable volumes first.
For more information on importing files by
dragging and dropping from DigiBase, see
the Pro Tools Reference Guide.
For more information on Transfer files,
missing files, and relinking, see the
Pro Tools Reference Guide.