Importing from PT 5.1 (Mac) to PT 9 (Win) is this possible?

[RickT]

First post so please don't bruise me up too bad. I've been using PT 5.1 for about 15 years on an old Mac computer and recently decided that PT 9 with an Mbox Pro would make life much easier for me but after installing the new system I cannot figure out how to import my old 5.1 songs into the new PT 9 software. Is it even possible? I've searched around Google a bit but nothing much comes up. If anyone can help I would sure appreciate it. I have alot of stuff to import.

Thanks!

Rick

[albee1952]

This will take some extra work. First off, the Mac sessions are likely in SD II format, which a Windows machine will not read, and probably the sessions were created WITHOUT checking the box for PC/Mac compatibility(remember the days when nobody would have ever run Pro Tools on a PC). There are SD II converters, but if the audio is made up of the usual; dozens of edited regions, that's a recipe for a headache. Your best route here is to open the sessions on the old mac setup. Consolidate all the audio so each track is a single region, and all start at 00:00:000. Then choose File>Save Session Copy in>check the box for "Enforce PC/Mac compatibility" and save with the audio in wave format. Send the copy to an external drive(probably need that to be formatted as fat32 so the Mac can write to it, and hopefully, the PC can read from it, so you can drag the session copy folders onto an NTFS drive for the PC to actually run the session).

[RickT]

Thanks albee for the detailed advice. I will give that a try and hope for the best. Very much appreciated!

Rick