convert pro tools .ptf to .mp3 help! (2 Viewers)

[sweetoblivion]

If anyone has info on this (I'm sure it's probably very obvious...) I would be very grateful!
I need to convert a .ptf pro tools file to Mp3.
Pro Tools is continually freezing on my laptop so I can't get back into pro tools. But I have the file on the 'ol laptop but need to know if there's a free programme I can download to convert it or if there's another way?
Have googled it but not really getting anything concrete back.
Thanks so much
Sweeto

 

[ratmonkey]

Get someone else to do it?

 

[sweetoblivion]

I was supposed to do it aages ago, I have to get it done asap...downloading some converter yoke that may work...or may not! we shall see...

 

[sweetoblivion]

yep, that didn't work.

If pro tools didn't keep bloody well freezing I presume i could go back and convert it, but as I can't...

 

[aoboa]

Isn't the ptf just the protools session file and not the actual audio?

 

[shower another shower]

Yip. Need to export an audio file from the .ptf.

 

[the departed]

yeah its juts the session file. youll need to copy it and open it on another machine.

or else take the audio stems from the the audio folder and open them in acid(if you havent done much mixing).

 

[sweetoblivion]

how do I import an audio file from a ptf?

sorry this is all completely new to me, I tried opening it in audacity to convert it but it just sounds like white noise

don't know what you mean about the stem and acid etc.
It's not a music track per se, it's like a podcast

 

[shower another shower]

Ptf isn't an audio file. It's a session file. It contains mix info, audio file locations, regions etc.
Look in the folder that contains the ptf file. There shoUd be a folder called audio files. In that folder there aiff files. Those you can convert to mp3 but they will be unmixed.

 

[sweetoblivion]

Ptf isn't an audio file. It's a session file. It contains mix info, audio file locations, regions etc.
Look in the folder that contains the ptf file. There shoUd be a folder called audio files. In that folder there aiff files. Those you can convert to mp3 but they will be unmixed.

Ah ok that makes more sense! I'll look for that now. Thanks
should that folder be on the desktop? the ptf is there, but there's no folder with the file name on it and anything else in it

 

[shower another shower]

Do a search with the name of the ptf. May find the folder with the audio files. Did you create this session or someone give you the ptf? If you just hav the ptf and no files associated with it, there's nothing you can do with it.
Search the file name without the .ptf and see what comes up.
Or search for aiff files and look at the dates that are similar to the ptf file?

 

[sweetoblivion]

Ok cool.
I recorded it on this laptop a few weeks ago, but burned the session to a disc and now that I think about it, the ptf I have on the desktop prob comes from that disc, so no wonder there's no folder.
But surely when I saved it. it would have saved to a pro tools folder...I just can't see any. I'll do a search.
thanks

 

[shower another shower]

Nope, if you just copied fro
the disk to your laptop, it would have just copied the ptf. To copy the audio files associated with the disk, you need to copy everything or do a save as from within the seesion.
Copy everything from the burn to your HD and try opening it.

 

[sweetoblivion]

aaah ffs. I just found a wav version of it that I had NO idea I had. I am an actual fail - thanks so much for your help!! i just wasted an entire evening on this, typical!!

 

[sweetoblivion]

I actually am the queen of pointless, embarrassing threads. apologies...