Is this a DREAM?

[Eric Hector]

Is this a dream that i can take with me
my PTMIX/MAC session to my homecomputer Digi001/WIN98 and work with the same session?

The 001WIN98 could not even convert SDII.

I could not open th MAC5.0 session in 001WIN98.

Do i have to buy a MAC?

Thank U for answer
/Eric

[Lijion]

I would also like to do the samething...can someone please help......{ )

[Monika]

I also could not open my session...I can convert the files to .wav using cool edit pro but need 001 to recognize the session. Digidesign, please patch!!!!

[PaulV]

Though Mac to PC interchange is not supported in the first release of LE, there are a couple unsupported workarounds. ProTools TDM under Windows NT will work with MacOpener, a utility by DataViz that allows one to read Mac disks, to let one open ProTools sessions on Mac (HFS formatted) hard drives/cd's. We had some problems with the Windows 98 version of MacOpener, so we couldn't support this functionality fully in this release. Though unsupported, there are still a few ways to sessions from the Mac to the PC using MacOpener under Win98. After installing MacOpener, if you mount a Mac (HFS) hard drive with your session on it under Windows 98, you should be able to open the session under ProTools LE, as well as import SDII files from it. It works best to open the session, then do a Save Session Copy In.. and save the session as a native PC ProTools session. Keep in mind that any plugins that are used by the session that you don't have won't be included.

Opening Mac sessions saved onto PC (FAT) disks using Mac File/PC Exchange isn't supported by ProTools (only Mac sessions on Mac disks, PC sessions on PC disks).

-Paul Vercellotti
Digi Engineering


[This message has been edited by PaulV (edited June 29, 2000).]

[Ghengis]

Ok have done this and have had good success - however, the session I opened was from a pt5 mix plus system, hence probably 32-40 tracks. What happens to the other 24 tracks/voices ?? Are they just forgotten about and saved that way if you have done some editting (ie new session file with 24 tracks) Can't see how this cannot be the case. How can you select the other tracks without the aid of virtual tracks ??

I am quite happy that you can get around it by using a mac hfs drive if only track problem was as easy

[Archie Gates]

Ghengis - I think I read in the PT manual the other day that LE takes the first 24 tracks and gets rid of the rest. So if you save the file as a PT LE, you'll lose any of the other tracks. So I guess you have to be really careful to open a copy in LE, not the original session from a Mix session, or you could be in trouble.