DP 4.5 creating pro tools files??????

[Brandino221]

Ok guys this is a question that I gotta know if it's true. Can DP 4.5 really open and create PT files??? If this is true then I think I am going to go for DP over Logic. Anyone work with Logic 7 or DP 4.5? Lets also get some USER thoughts on this one to help us other people who still don't know which way to go on this one. Peace.

Brandon Allegretti

[Sharp11]

Originally posted by Brandino221
Ok guys this is a question that I gotta know if it's true. Can DP 4.5 really open and create PT files??? If this is true then I think I am going to go for DP over Logic. Anyone work with Logic 7 or DP 4.5? Lets also get some USER thoughts on this one to help us other people who still don't know which way to go on this one. Peace.

Brandon Allegretti

Where in the world did you get the idea DP can open and save native PT files?

[Brandino221]

I read this on the DP site "Digital Performer even opens and creates Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro OMF sessions, allowing import and export of audio, region edits, crossfades, SMPTE times, and volume and pan automation with the DigiTranslator utility". So I wanted to see if anyone has done that yet and what luck they had with it. I should have used the word "session" and not "files". My bad.

Peace,
Brandon Allegretti

[Geert van den Berg]

Both Logic and DP can open and create OMF files. I believe OMF stands for Open Media Format.

PT can open and create OMF's too if you use their Digitranslator utillity. Nowadays that utillity is part of PT, but to unlock it you have to pay extra (and not a little! for what it is).

Most post-production studios got that Digi-utility but many music studios don't have it.

So if you really want to be compatible you need to either buy PT itself (or PT LE), or consolidate/merge your audio tracks into longer files with DP or Logic, which are easy to import into PT.

[Geert van den Berg]

and to answer your question more precise, DP doesn't make PT sessions.

It's just smart marketing.

[Albert]

It's just the way they worded it, for marketing purposes. DP will save and open OMF files. PT will save and open OMF files. So you can trade files, but they have to be in OMF format. DP will not open PT files natively.

[Brandino221]

Ok cool. How does this OMF thing work? Do I have to buy something extra to make and or open OMF files? Thanx 4 the help.

[Albert]

No, you don't have to buy anything extra. In DP when you go to save a file you can select an option that says something like "save as OMF file".

[Geert van den Berg]

OMF's can transfer audio/video and volume and pan data from one application to another.

If you want to use it in PT you need the Digitranslator option. So then you would need to buy that.

DP can open or make OMF's itself.