Opening Pro Tools HD Sessions in Pro Tools

A Pro Tools HD session can be opened with Pro Tools, but certain session components open differently or not at all.

Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit provides seamless session interchange with Pro Tools HD. For a complete list of features supported by Complete Production Toolkit, see Complete Production Toolkit

When opening a Pro Tools HD 10.x session in Pro Tools 10.x, the following occurs:

Tracks

Any tracks beyond the first 128 are made inactive.

Any Instrument tracks beyond 64 are made inactive.

Any Auxiliary Input tracks beyond 128 are made inactive.

DSP plug-ins with Native equivalents are converted; those without equivalents are made inactive.

Multichannel surround tracks are removed from the session.

Unavailable input and output paths are made inactive.

HEAT (if present) is removed.

Groups

Mix Groups keep only Main Volume information.

Mix/Edit Groups keep only Main Volume and Automation Mode information.

Automation overflow information for grouped controls is be preserved.

Group behavior of Solos, Mutes, Send Levels, Send Mutes is be preserved.

Solo Mode and Solo Latch settings are dropped.

Video

Only the main video track is displayed.

Only the first QuickTime movie in the session is displayed or played back.

If the session contains QuickTime movies in the Clip List but no video track, the session opens with a new QuickTime Movie track containing the first QuickTime movie from the Clip List.

The Timeline displays and plays back only the video playlist that was last active. Alternate video playlists are not available.