merging le and tdm sessions

[j creasey]

can a le session be merged with a tdm session and if so how? i have a friend who i am doing some post work for and he runs tdm along with media 100 so he has the smpte thing going' so he gives me a start time for my session and so on but he cant open my session as is and we have tried OMF but no go'he has also told me you cant even merge two tdm sessions! if anyone ay digidesign gives a crap give us a smpte line!!!!! unless you can afford a mac av or media 100 system(50'000 bucks) it wont cut in on tdm anyway.
thanks for your reply's in advance
james [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

[where02190]

We do sessions across TDM and PTLE platforms regularly with no problems.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

You can Import Tracks in the File menu.

Rail

[Slim Shady]

Sounds like you might just have a software version mismatch. Check and make sure you're both running the same versions of PT and PTLE. I transfer PTLE and TDM sessions back and forth quite often with no problems.

As Rail Jon Rogut mentioned, if you just need to 'merge' some tracks into an existing session, use the 'import track' feature (available in 5.1 I think) or if you're using an older version, use the track transfer utility available on the PT CD-ROM.

[j creasey]

thanx guys but my sesions are small regions of fx and foley that are all seperatley named ! now in order to import my tracks and have them sync to his timline we have been having to consolidate the regions wich wipes out a lot of work on my end. I have never used track transfer (no need till now)so will one of you gents be kind enough to give me a dumb ass run down of how to do this?
remember i want my regions to sync to his timline(i get quicktime movies with a start point) thanks.
james

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Import Tracks... keeps all your regions in the EDL in the right (relative) position as well as any plug-ins or fades, etc.

Which version of LE and TDM are you working with.

You will need to know what the other session start time is -- you want that to be the same in both sessions or there will be an offset -- in that case in the top righ hand corner in the Timecode mapping options change the start time of the imported data.

Rail