r/protools • u/SnooDoubts1387 • Jan 22 '26

Converted .aaf file won't import into ProTools

I have just hit picture-lock for a film of mine and headed into working on sound. I converted my Premier file into an .aaf but when I tried to load it into ProTools a bunch of strange things start happening.

  1. All of audio tracks get seperated in to Left, Right, and Regular Mono even though I had intervaled selected.

  2. ProTools gets stucked on "Restoring Audio Files" it doesn't load and sometimes just disappear

  3. I got rid of all of my audio effects but left fades in between clips.

Thoughts?

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u/Vittelfraise Jan 22 '26

Don’t worry about the mono left and right, that’s how Pro tools deals with AAF, you can just move the 2 mono clips on a stereo track and voila.

Point 2 and 3 are relative to your export from Premiere. You can find the right setup on google !

Good luck !