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Chapter 15: Importing and Exporting Session Data 289
Exporting Stereo or Multichannel
Interleaved Files
You can use the Export Regions as Files com-
mand to export audio regions to stereo or multi-
channel interleaved files for use in other appli-
cations. (Pro Tools cannot use interleaved files
directly in the Timeline—these must be con-
verted into multiple mono files.) For example,
for this to work with a stereo file, the selected re-
gions must have identical names with “.L” and
“.R” suffixes (for instance, vocals_01.L and
vocals_01.R). These regions appear as a stereo re-
gion in the Region List.
Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with Complete
Production Toolkit also let you bounce multi-
channel interleaved files of any supported file
type.
To export regions as a stereo or multichannel
interleaved file:
1 Select the stereo or multichannel audio region
in the Region List or in the track playlist. If the
regions appear on mono tracks in the session,
select the two mono regions.
2 From the Region List menu, choose Export Re-
gions as Files .
3 In the Export Selected dialog, select Stereo In-
terleaved in the Format pop-up menu. For multi-
channel regions, the Stereo Interleaved option
produces a multichannel interleaved file.
4 Configure any other output settings, then
click Export to export the new stereo interleaved
file.
Exporting Region Definitions
Pro Tools stores region definitions for audio files
within each session. If you want to use an audio
file’s regions in another session, or with another
application that supports them, you can export
the region information.
The Export Region Definitions command does not
export regions as audio files (unlike the Export
Regions as Files
command). Instead, it stores
pointers to the regions within the parent source
file.
To export region definitions for an audio file:
1 In the Region List, select any regions or region
groups for which you want to export defini-
tions. You do not have to select the parent file
audio region.
2 Choose Export Region Definitions from the Re-
gion List menu.
3 Click Export.
Importing Session Data
You can import entire tracks from other
Pro Tools sessions into the current Pro Tools ses-
sion using the Import Session Data command or
drag and drop.
If you plan to transfer Pro Tools session
data to another session, you should export
region definitions for sessions containing
multiple takes created with Loop Record.