Pro Tools?

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Mixing and Mastering.
Didnt know where to post this one really, so posted it here.

I have been sent a session file of a song to be mixed. I got the usual fade files, session file that you get using Pro Tools. But when I tried to open the wave files they had no extension!

I tried renaming them as .wav or.aiff but they opened as noise rather than the audio they are meant to be.
Anyone got any ideas whats up? Are there any other formats of audio I am not thinking of that are special to Macs?

Cheers,
Eck
 
ecktronic said:
Didnt know where to post this one really, so posted it here.

I have been sent a session file of a song to be mixed. I got the usual fade files, session file that you get using Pro Tools. But when I tried to open the wave files they had no extension!

I tried renaming them as .wav or.aiff but they opened as noise rather than the audio they are meant to be.
Anyone got any ideas whats up? Are there any other formats of audio I am not thinking of that are special to Macs?

Cheers,
Eck
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I suppose it's possible that someone exported the audio as .SDII (sound designer II) files, which is the native file format for Pro Tools, instead of converting to AIFF or WAV.

Was it actually exported as an OMF or are you trying to open a Pro Tools session in CuBase?

Also, they need to name the file with extension to be able to open in up on a PC
 
RAK said:
I suppose it's possible that someone exported the audio as .SDII (sound designer II) files, which is the native file format for Pro Tools, instead of converting to AIFF or WAV.

Was it actually exported as an OMF or are you trying to open a Pro Tools session in CuBase?

Also, they need to name the file with extension to be able to open in up on a PC
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Sounds like you could be right on the .SDII
Im not trying to open any session files Im just wanting to import the audio files to Cubase.

Thanks for your help.

Eck
 
If you open a file using notepad there is usually an indicator at the start of the file that indicates what type of file it is.
 
Tried it but it just crahsed. I think the file was a bit big for notepad!
Cheers anyway
Eck
 
I'm sorry, for sure notepad can only open smaller files. Use wordpad instead. I just opened a .wav file with it and the file started with this: RIFFè￾WAVEbext

The rest of the file will look like garbage but you may be able to identify the file type.
 
ecktronic said:
Sounds like you could be right on the .SDII
Im not trying to open any session files Im just wanting to import the audio files to Cubase.

Thanks for your help.

Eck
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Cool. Are you on a PC or a MAC with Cubase? Hope you solve the problem.
 
It may be easier to have the guy who sent you the Pro Tools files export that audio for you and make suer Mac/PC compatibility is enforced. For one you can then tell him what file format you need and, two, you can make sure that all the files are contiguous. If they aren't soild files from the beginning to the end of the song you'll have to line them all up in Cubase... its a huge pain.

Pro Tools has good file handling tools, though, so it shouldn't be hard.

Take care,
Chris
 
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