I’m trying to import a PT session, but importing a few audiofiles it gives this error:
“Failed to load one or more of the audio files, but continuing to attempt import.”
But nothing is imported from that point. Is there anywhere I can find a log on how far Ardour got with the import and basically find out what files makes it choke?
Can it be that notes/strips containing only text isn’t supported as PT import?
you cant import pt sessions into ardour, you can try using aatranslator to convert sessions , but the best way to go from here to there would be stems i suppose…
Sorry your info is a bit out of date. THere has been work to implement importing protools sessions into Ardour, but I don’t think it is complete yet, not real sure to be honest. This was started in the 4.x series of releases IIRC, so for example see here: https://community.ardour.org/node/13365
Hello. I’m sorry for reviving this old topic.
I’ve just discovered the PT import menu on Ardour 5.12 and as I’m gonnna work exclusively on Linux I got interrested by this tool (cause I made project on protools and I’d like to be able to re-open them)
But when I select a ptx file it says “Doesn’t seem to be a valide PT session”
Any idea how I could fix it?
Thanks in advance
Well the first question is, what version of ProTools was the project made in? I can’t remember the details but the PTX support only supports particular versions of ProTools IIRC.
Well it may help to be sure, but here is what the manual says about it:
Though incomplete, this import is intended for ptf and ptx files. Protools® 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 have been tested with varying degrees of success. (versions 6 and 7 are not supported).
A couple of things to note is the ‘varying degrees of success’ in particular and incomplete as a second thing. I would suggest seeing if you can save it as an older version of PT file and see if that works.
Yeah I read it ^^
but I don’t have Protool on my personnal computer, I have Sound Design courses and had to use PT there. So I thought it would be nice keeping these works ^^
I hope it will be completed in Ardour 6
Unfortunately I wouldn’t hold my breath as there is a lot of reverse engineering in there to ‘complete’ it. You can try AATranslator as well (Commercial software) and see if you have better luck there.
Oh I didn’t saw your last reply. I know AATranslator, but never tried it. And I’m not gonna buy it cause it’s a windows only software, and I want to use Linux only
But many thanks for your reply ^^ I think I’ll take a free trial of protools to export my stems intead
si I’ll just need to import rendered stems to Ardour or Reaper ^^
I have been able to ‘complete’ most of it for Ardour 6. It should open any session between ProTools 5 to 12 inclusive. See https://github.com/zamaudio/ptformat/#what-works for a detailed breakdown of what works and what doesn’t, currently only compound “grouped” regions don’t work in 10-12, but everything else should be working in terms of Audio and MIDI placement in the session.
It would be good to get some more test sessions for versions 6 and 7 containing MIDI so I can fill in the rest of the table.