User Manual

Transferring Project and Media Files Between Avid Editing Systems

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DigiTranslator v2.0 is required on the Pro Tools system for import and export of OMF and AAF

files.

For information about working with Sound Designer II audio files, see “Transferring and

Working with Sound Designer II Audio Files from Macintosh Systems” on page 1129.

For information on working with ProTools in an Interplay environment, see “Using Pro Tools

and Interplay” in Avid Interplay Best Practices.

Transferring and Working with Sound Designer II Audio Files from

Macintosh Systems

Sound Designer II audio media is a Macintosh format and is not supported on Windows.

To transfer Sound Designer II media to a Windows system, export an OMFI or AAF composition

that includes the media and convert the media to AIFF-C or WAVE. Use the Export command or

the Send To command.

Sound Designer II audio media has limited support on Media Composer Macintosh systems.

The following features are supported:

• You can play Sound Designer II audio that you create on another system and transfer.

• You can export audio as Sound Designer II media through the Audio option of the Export

command.

The following features are not supported:

• You cannot select Sound Designer II as the file format for a project or output Sound

Designer II media in a digital cut.

• You cannot export or convert Sound Designer II media through OMF or AAF.

You can use the Consolidate or Transcode feature to convert Sound Designer II media to

another audio file format, or you can convert it as part of an OMF or AAF export.

Transferring a Project Using Shared Storage

If you are using your Avid editing system in an Avid Unity environment, you can use Avid

Interplay to share media files, projects, and bins between systems. For more information, see

your Avid Unity and Avid Interplay documentation.

You can also share bins and projects in an Avid Unity environment that does not use Avid

Interplay. See “Sharing Bins and Projects in an Avid Unity Environment” in the Help and in the

Avid Unity documentation.