Old Sessions

[Jeffrey Talbot]

So awhile ago, PT dropped the ability to import much earlier PT session files (PT 4, 5....) and to use SDII files.

Does anyone know what the last version of PT that was able to open early session files as well SDII files, or at least the ability to convert them to AIFF/WAV files....

[Sardi]

V10


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[gives]

Here is a good plugin that I use with good success to convert files as well in addition to using an older PT session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_IxwHjYsM

G

[Picture Start]

Yes—I keep an old laptop handy with this exact configuration, I believe the last versions to support SDII-based sessions:

Pro Tools 10.3.5
MacOS 10.8.3

Let me know and I can send you a link to these installers, but they should be able to be found online.

[Picture Start]

And while we are on the topic of converting old sessions, does anyone know a way to make SD2 files that aren't recognized as such (for whatever reason), to be able to be? I have a bunch of archives I'm migrating which are all PT 5.x/PT 6.x sessions that I've backed up on DVD-Rs. For some reason, a handful of the files in the Audio Files folder from some of these sessions just don't want to be recognized, and cannot be force-relinked. It's not as thought the resource forks were blown out on only a handful of these files; they are sitting in a folder with dozens of perfectly working SD2s. Is there something about the naming? Maybe there is a utility to compare a working one and a broken one to figure out how to adjust metadata? No dice using BarbaBatch or any other utility I own.

Thanks in advance.

[Picture Start]

Originally Posted by gives

Here is a good plugin that I use with good success to convert files as well in addition to using an older PT session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_IxwHjYsM

G

Helpful, thanks. I think this app will re-assign the resource map. Yay!

[Jeffrey Talbot]

Originally Posted by Picture Start

Pro Tools 10.3.5
MacOS 10.8.3

THANKS. I can download the right version of PT from Avid, and I'm pretty sure I've got the OS install as well... but will let you know if I need that.

J

[gives]

Originally Posted by Picture Start

Helpful, thanks. I think this app will re-assign the resource map. Yay!

Yes.. It does help a lot to use this app. Had some older Macs here for such cases as well, but sold them. Did not really need to convert anymore of my work as I did that from some old old tape drive backups abbot a year ago when I had some down time. What a bunch of work though. Fun to go back an look at older work from the 90's.

G

[Picture Start]

Originally Posted by gives

Yes.. It does help a lot to use this app. Had some older Macs here for such cases as well, but sold them. Did not really need to convert anymore of my work as I did that from some old old tape drive backups abbot a year ago when I had some down time. What a bunch of work though. Fun to go back an look at older work from the 90's.

G

True. Seeing that old 2" reel hub icon is a trip down memory lane. The app worked great for about 3/4 of what I needed it to. There was another 25% that it wouldn't recognize either. I guess some files are too far gone. Thanks again.

[Jeffrey Talbot]

So I was able to open old sessions with this combination:

Pro Tools 10.3.5
MacOS 10.8.3

But it does convert the SDII files to WAV (or perhaps AIFF) files... Does anyone know what the last version of PT was that could open SDII files natively? I'm thinking probably some version of PT 9, but don't remember. Would kind of be nice if an earlier version of PT10 would, since I still have a license for that, but earlier licenses were all surrendered in upgrades....