Fast Track Ultra & Pro Tools 7.3

[Farshid.T]

Hi,

Is there any possible way to use Pro Tools MP 7.3 with Fast Track Ultra?

All of my university systems have 7.3 installed but I have a FTU that is compatible with 7.4cs3 (at least) and its save files cannot be opened by those 7.3s in my university.

any suggestion?
any cs for 7.3 to support FTU?

thanks in advance,

[Avid]

You are correct that the Fast Track Ultra will not work with any version below 7.4cs3, as it says on the compatibility grid for Pro Tools M-Powered.

You should be able to save your 7.4 sessions in a way that they can be read by Pro Tools 7.3. See this page, also linked from the compatibility index page at the top of the forum:

Pro Tools Session Compatibility and Interchange

Pro Tools 7.4
Opening a Pro Tools 7.4 (or higher) session with a lower version of Pro Tools will cause the following issues:

* Elastic Audio tracks will play at 1x speed without TCE warping. The TCE warping must be coalesced in Pro Tools 7.4 before opening in earlier versions.

* Unicode characters in any text fields such as track names, region names, etc. may not display correctly. To ensure compatibility with lower versions, the Pro Tools 7.4 user must perform a Save Session Copy In… and select the appropriate character set for use with the lower version.

* Lost support for some resolutions of Avid video with Avid Mojo/Mojo SDI: Pro Tools 7.4 supports all standard definition Avid video resolutions with Avid Mojo and Avid Mojo SDI. Lower versions of Pro Tools only support a subset of these resolutions. Unsupported video clips will be labeled as such in the timeline. To ensure compatibility, the Pro Tools 7.4 user should export the video track as a QuickTime movie, then re-import into the session.

From the What's New in Pro Tools LE & M-Powered 7.4 (PDF) on that same page:

Save Session Updates
The Save Copy In dialog now includes options
to Limit Character Set (see “Sharing Pro Tools
7.4 Sessions” on page 54) and to not copy Elastic
Audio Rendered Files.