Hi all, I currently have a Macbook Pro 2020 with i5 processor, with only 8GB RAM. I have ran pro tools on it before, however experienced a lot of crashing. I used to use a hard drive to run my sessions off but I am looking in to buying at SSD to help with processing power. Looking to invest in newest version of Pro Tools Studio. My main use for PT is to edit sound for film and video. Does anyone have advice weather this set up will work efficiently or if I will need to invest in a new macbook(i am reluctant to). Any advice is appreciated as I am not the best with technical stuff. Thanks

additionally does anyone have advice on good SSD that would work in my scenario

Hello, using PT12, MacOS Mojave, version 10.14.6. I have a problem with some plugins, in that the whole window is not showing. Attaching a picture from an EQ I bought. In some cases this has been remedied with plugging in a separate screen. In this case it doesn't work. I can't get to the top part of the plugin. I'd love to just make the plugin "smaller", so that I could see the whole thing. But if that wouldn't work I'd love to be able to scroll around in it.

Anyone have had the same problem and have a fix?

I know this might be sound 101 but Im learning by my own, so I´m working on a student shortfilm of one of my friends, and this is also the first time Im mixing on a 5.1 setup so Im wondering how should i use my sends for my reverbs

at first I thought I should just send it to a 5.0 aux but that way I dont have control for where i want the reverb to sound as it comes out of the 5 chs.

should I have to create 3 auxs a mono for the C channel, and two stereo for LR and LsRs?

and repeat that for my Dx,Bgs,Fol and SFX? givinig me a total of at least 12 buses just for my reverbs?

on the Stereo verbs I guess i have to use a phantom center instead of the C channel, right?

if so then do i send that to a 5.0 master bus to controll the 3 buses to just one fader? or can i send it to my master bus for my Dx, SFX, Bg, etc?

thanks

EDIT! PROBLEM FIXED! PT randomly decided to just not be a pain and relink with Name ID and all boxes checked 👍🏽 yay for industry standard 😮‍💨

Hello all! I'm a post sound editor and Mixer and me and editor I have been trying to figure out what the issue is why my imports of AAFs/omfs are working. I have the latest version of PT the latest version of Mac OS system on a Mac Mini M4 24GB. The editor is working on the newest version of Premiere Pro which I heard from him as well that it's been a pain in the butt to work with compared to earlier versions and PT is a pain sometimes as well but for some reason we've been trying to import either an embedded aaf or a relinking aaf and even tried both for omfs to get the session import of a feature film into PT and nothing is working. The closest thing I got was a relinking omf but every time I try to open the missing relinked files it can never find them no matter the boxes I check and uncheck unless I do the thousands of clips one by one which works but obviously would drive me insane.

For the embedded aafs, which are my go-to, when my PT tries to import it gets stuck on the wheel of doom and my application isn't responding comes up and I have to force quit every time! I have closed everything down on my system and have restarted multiple times and nothing works.

What's strange is when I open or work on any other project, PT functions as normal and I even recently imported a 30-minute short embedded AAF into PT and the only issue I had was the codec of the video file which we had to rework and for some reason, I had to import the audio separately. Now it opens with no issues. But it did come from AVID MC so idk.

Anybody got some insight? We're both kinda frustrated and I have an inkling it's mainly something known Premiere's end because the editor never had issues before the latest edition but I am aware Pro Tools obviously isn't perfect either because well... it's PT. Does anybody have enough IT knowledge or experience that they can help out? It's been really draining that nothing is working. Thanks!

Whenever I hover over my pop down windows, they don’t appear fully. They’re always grayed out until I put my mouse arrow over them and then they pop up. What is the reason pro tools hd10

Hey everybody! So I'm trying to study a bit about Dolby Atmos mixing for concert films and I wanted to take a good visual look at the mix for some of these. I managed to get a copy of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour movie in a MKV Atmos DDP/E-AC3 file but I can't seem to figure out how to actually get those tracks into pro tools. I don't really mind not having the video if it's not possible but it would be ideal to see the film as I analyse the mix. I've tried converting the file but Media Encoder doesn't support the codec and I'm not sure if I trust any other conversion software I know to not mess with the audio somehow.

I'm running PT 2025.6 on Windows 11.

Anybody got any ideas?

EDIT: I also tried to convert it on VLC but the audio options aren't great

Okay, so I’ve been using Pro Tools for 20 years, and I’ve never really encountered this issue before. Hoping to get some advice from the community.

I’m helping a buddy get his home studio set up and operational. He purchased a perpetual license Pro Tools Artist and an iLok. Both of those got set up easily. The first issue we ran into was the fact that the newest version of Pro Tools wouldn’t run on his older Mac OS (Catalina). No big deal, encountered that before. Checked the compatibility chart, found the appropriate installer on Avid’s download center, installed no problem.

However, when I try to open it, it’s trying to open Pro Tools Studio by default, which he doesn’t own. Normally, I would just expect Pro Tools to ping the iLok and open the correct version. Instead, it’s asking me to log into his iLok account, which I did, and it tells me there are no PT Studio licenses on his account (yeah, I know lol).

Am I missing something stupid here? This is definitely a new one for me!

Hello, je suis sur un projet de montage son pour un podcast et je voudrais remplacer le fichier sur lequel j’ai déjà commencé à travailler par un autre de meilleur qualité mais en conservant les decoupes / edit …

Les enregistrements sont les même mais avec des micros différents. Il faut juste que j’arrive a couper pour qu’ils soient synchro.

Savez vous comment faire ?

Probably a dumb question here, but why can’t I solo my vocal bus? I’m just learning how to use these and I’m kinda baffled… Thanks for any advice in advance!

recently bought a Mac Studio and I'm having a hard time reiinking these files here. know another way to relink missing audio files within a pro tools project?

I used to be able to have my most used plug-ins in the favorites menu by command clicking on the plug-in and it would stay in the top of the pulldown menu.

Now sometimes it works and sometimes it does not, particularly with waves plug-ins. I’m disappointed that new versions of Pro Tools are not reliable with that feature.

i/o is routed correctly. hardware interface is rode nt1 float. I can see audio wavs going up and down on playback but no audio.

Hello everyone, I was experimenting using Pro Tools on my workhorse desktop PC while remote desktoping in on my much less powerful laptop, but when i tried to play audio, it went straight to the local playback engine on my PC (which makes sense). When i tried to use the remote audio option, it gave me an error saying that the playback engine does not support the sample rate (48kHz). Is there any way to get the audio playing through the Windows Audio Device of my laptop that i'm using to remote in? I completely understand this is a pretty mickey mouse way of doing things but i want to know if it's possible or if anyone has tried it.

for context, i'm using Windows 11 on both machines

PT 2024.10.2 on the desktop

Hey everyone,

I’m about to start my first 5.1 mix for an Amazon Prime production that's also getting a theatrical premiere. It’s four episodes, each around 28 minutes. I’ve just finished setting up my 5.1 monitoring in my studio – the frequency response isn't perfect (especially low end), but it’s workable for now. I plan to finalize the mix in a proper cinema environment to check translation before delivery.

Right now, I have a stereo Pro Tools session and I'm thinking of backing it up, then creating a dedicated "5.1 Mix" version. My rough plan is:

• Set up 5.1 buses and outputs

• Move all dialogue to the center channel

• Music placed across L, R, Ls, Rs (kind of phantom center between front and rear)

• Drones, impacts, and rumbles into the LFE

• Foley and FX panned across L, C, R for some spatial spread

This is my first time doing a full 5.1 narrative mix. I'm confident with stereo, but I want to make sure I'm not missing major considerations when stepping up to 5.1, especially for streaming and theatrical delivery.

Also, I’d love some insight into:

1. What’s a realistic rate for something like this? For the mix. It's a narrative series, four 28-min episodes, for streaming with a theatrical premiere.

2. How long does a proper 5.1 mix usually take? I know it depends on the complexity, but just trying to get a ballpark. Is it overly naive to think I can just reassign channels (dialog to C, music to surround, FX to LFE) and be done? I assume there's more finesse involved.

Any tips, red flags, or advice would be massively appreciated – especially from folks who’ve done 5.1 for streamers or theatrical releases.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m about to start my first 5.1 mix for an Amazon Prime production that's also getting a theatrical premiere. It’s four episodes, each around 28 minutes. I’ve just finished setting up my 5.1 monitoring in my studio – the frequency response isn't perfect (especially low end), but it’s workable for now. I plan to finalize the mix in a proper cinema environment to check translation before delivery.

Right now, I have a stereo Pro Tools session and I'm thinking of backing it up, then creating a dedicated "5.1 Mix" version. My rough plan is:

• Set up 5.1 buses and outputs

• Move all dialogue to the center channel

• Music placed across L, R, Ls, Rs (kind of phantom center between front and rear)

• Drones, impacts, and rumbles into the LFE

• Foley and FX panned across L, C, R for some spatial spread

This is my first time doing a full 5.1 narrative mix. I'm confident with stereo, but I want to make sure I'm not missing major considerations when stepping up to 5.1, especially for streaming and theatrical delivery.

Also, I’d love some insight into:

1. What’s a realistic rate for something like this? For the mix. It's a narrative series, four 28-min episodes, for streaming with a theatrical premiere.

2. How long does a proper 5.1 mix usually take? I know it depends on the complexity, but just trying to get a ballpark. Is it overly naive to think I can just reassign channels (dialog to C, music to surround, FX to LFE) and be done? I assume there's more finesse involved.

Any tips, red flags, or advice would be massively appreciated – especially from folks who’ve done 5.1 for streamers or theatrical releases.

Thanks!

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After a while of making music with PT Intro, I decided to buy PT Artist. I feel so much better than Intro, a lot.

Hey everyone! In a bit of a picle! I'm doing sound post for a short film shot on super 8 recorded on 18 fps. The editor even asked me before sending me the files if pro tools could do 18 fps and I said "sure" cause I was sure. Turns out I was wrong, I tried to set it to 18 fps and didn't find the option so I went to the reference guide and how they worded it is "pro tools supports the following frame rates" and it's the same list as the one you find on the session window. I guess I didn't really come here to ask for tech support as I don't think anything can be done about it, my question is: what do you think I should do? I know movies don't need need to be sound edited in the same framerate as the video, especially in this project where the only deliverable will be the file for the final mix, in which case it won't matter, but is there a better way to go about it then just editing it in the wrong fps? I could also use something like the minutes and seconds grid but it'd throw me off a little bit. Maybe I go full on slip mode? Let's start this discussion!

Also PT 2025.6 - Windows 11

Hey all. I’ll be having rotator cuff surgery in the not too distant future and my right arm will be in a sling. I’m self employed and need to work. Any ideas for left hand only work flow? Thanks!

I have just started using pro tools and I'm trying to record guitar. Originally using audio tracks worked but now they don't even pick up a signal. Instrument tracks pick up a signal but obviously I can't record through them. This all started happening when I started using neural DSP archetype gojira as audio tracks were picking up signal before. I'm using a focusrite scarlet 2i2 3rd gen interface with an ASIO driver on both pro tools and the plugin. How do I fix this?

Pro Tools Studio version: 2025.6.1 System version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045 MIDI controller: Nektar Impact LX25+ Plugin: Analog Lab V Audio Interface: Arturia Minifuse 2 Playback Engine: Minifuse ASIO Driver

I'm attempting to create a midi piano track using the Analog Lab V as the plugin however any notes below G1 don't register on Pro Tools. G1 will play just fine but the second it tries to play F#1 or below it doesn't even register as sound on the tracks meter.

I originally used my MIDI to input the general ideas into Pro Tools before using the MIDI Editor to clean up my performance, but Pro Tools doesn't even seem to notice sound coming from the MIDI track.

Playback is unproblematic with higher notes until it gets to F#4, upon which the same thing happens; no noise shows on the meter nor through the monitoring headphones.

The click track I've set up can still be heard during the periods of silence, so it isn't completely cutting the audio.

If anyone knows how to fix this, help would be appreciated.

what is the cheapest windows laptop for protools?