Converting sessions from PT HD to Nuendo

[Apemandan]

OK...first things first, this is NOT a platform battle thread!!!

I have an album project which i am tracking in Protools HD (version 6.9 on PC) and mixing in Nuendo (on PC). I have predominantly been a Protools user in the past, but am trying a new studio in my area that run Nuendo and have some sweet, slutty outboard and convertors.

I will be working at 96kHz/24bit.

My question is the the best way to transfer the sessions? My initial idea was OMF but i don't know how reliable that will be. I don't want to resort to bouncing an albums worth of material from 0 timeline! Somebody mentioned to me that PT 7 has a function where it will bounce all tracks from zero for you. Is this true?

any insights or ideas?

Dan.

[Solar]

I think u will need the " EDL Convert" software to be able to achieve this...

http://www.cuibono-soft.com/Products...nvert_v41.html

Hope it helps

[Geert van den Berg]

Originally Posted by Apemandan

My question is the the best way to transfer the sessions? My initial idea was OMF but i don't know how reliable that will be. I don't want to resort to bouncing an albums worth of material from 0 timeline! Somebody mentioned to me that PT 7 has a function where it will bounce all tracks from zero for you. Is this true?

Well you don't have to bounce. Well at least not in real time.

It's a little confusing because in Cubase/Nuendo, rendering a track to one long file is called bouncing. And Cubase/Nuendo you can also bounce a mix of a complete song faster than realtime.

In PT this are 2 different things. First of all bouncing in PT is always realtime. But if you have a track which consists of a couple of punches and you want to make it a whole new file, it's just a matter of using consolidate from the edit menu (shift-alt-3).

And with this function it's also possible to create a long file which has blank space in it. If you make your selection start before the first audio region it will render zero's/silence into the file, just as there will be silence in between if regions are spaced apart.

You can select all your tracks all at once. Make a selection which starts at the first region and let the selection end at the latest region of the session and then press shift-alt-3. From here it will start to render/bounce all tracks at once. Naming the files according to the track names used.

You can select the newly rendered files in PT and use export selected files from the regions menu.

Or you can just look in the finder in the audio files folder and sort on creation date, the newly rendered files will be on top. If you've got one session per song your file housekeeping shouldn't be too complicated.

This is the most easy way of transferring but rendering and importing the files can take some time, however not as much as you would think. Because all files are the same length, syncing them is a piece of cake.

Another option would be to use OMF. I've used OMF's coming from Nuendo into PT without problems, I don't know how it will work out the other way around, but I don't expect much problems.

Another option would be to use AAF. It's a newly developed transferring protocol and both Nuendo and PT (with Digitranslator) support it.

[nikki-k]

Track in PT, move session to Nuendo, mix and *print*
Right?

Nuendo users will probably have a better solution, but..

I have done this, and work with multi-tempo, multi-time sig songs alot. I begin by selecting all my audio tracks, and export as AAF. Next, use export MIDI to a type 1 .mid file. Why would I do this if there are no MIDI tracks? Simple: moving tempo and tim sig info.

New Project in Nuendo, import .mid file first. Next, import AAF file, which all the audio file placement and file name info. Works for me, but maybe easier or more elegant way?

[Henchman]

Well, you can spend a pile of dough on Digitranslator, or a little dough on EDL-Convert.
Save hte session in PT's V5 session, open in EDL-Convert, save as OpenTL, import into Nuendo.
It's fast, because you refernce to the original files.

[Apemandan]

I have not used AAF before (and don't have digitranslator here at home to try it). Is it possible to just save an 'arrangement' AAF file, that doesn't need to collate all the audio data into one file, but instead refers to the original source audio? I guess i would have to track in .wav in protools so nuendo would recognise the file types?



Dan