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Published in SOS March 2013

Technique : Pro Tools Notes


Pro Tools 10 has some new ways to help you move material to and from other systems — including older Pro Tools rigs.
Mike Thornton
Because Clip Gain is new to Pro Tools 10, it will need to be converted to automation or rendered if you plan to create a session that can be opened in an earlier version.
Because Clip Gain is new to Pro Tools 10, it will need to be converted to automation or rendered if you plan to create a session that can be opened in an earlier version.
As well as the headline features, Avid also made some less obvious changes in Pro Tools 10, some of which are very useful. Among these are improvements to the Save Session Copy and Import Session Data functions.
Before we look at the changes and new features, why would we use Save Session Copy? It has three main applications:
To save a copy of the current session in a ‘snapshot’ state that won’t be updated as you continue to work, as it would if you used ‘Save Session As’.
To save the session in a format that older Pro Tools systems can read. This is especially important with Pro Tools 10 as it uses a new ‘.ptx’ session file format which earlier versions of Pro Tools cannot open directly.
To save a complete copy of a session, including related media, in one folder.
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