10 year old pro tools project to open

[preampdude]

I am not a pro tools owner. I have a pro tools project/ demo of my old band and I was thinking it might be interesting to try to remix it. The version of pro tools that this demo was recorded with must be a 1999/2000 one.

Would you happen to know if recent pro tools versions are backwards compatible?

Note: I tried an old free demo of pro tools for windows and it wouldn't open the project. (I had to convert the filesystem for that...)

 

[MetalJonesy]

they are usually backwards compatible! but im not sure with 10 years back!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Yeah what version would that have been? I have been able to open a project from version 5 but never tied anything earlier.

 

[preampdude]

I don't know if this could be a hint but if I remember correctly (I don't have the cds with me atm) the project files had no extension.

 

[preampdude]

I found a local copy of the project, the songs had this structure:

/Song1/Audio Files/[a bunch of .sd2 files]
/Song1/Fade Files/[a bunch of .sd2 files]
/Song1/Song1 [file no extension]

I just want to extract the tracks and mix on different daw.

 

[Skinny Viking]

how big is the project folder? If you want to dropbox it I can try opening it up for you and convert it into something a bit more up to date

 

[preampdude]

it's 1 gb.

 

[Skinny Viking]

ok F that

You said its a demo ... is there more than one song and session folder? If so, if you want to just try doing one tune 1st to see if I can do something with it, go for it.

 

[slashvanyoung]

2000 is PT 5 era. Could have been done with the very first LE version that was released around the turn of the millennium.

 

[SentencedToBurn]

there should be no problem. usually the problem occurs when trying to open a newer file on an old version of pro tools.

 

[Seth Munson]

usually the problem occurs when trying to open a newer file on an old version of pro tools.

yup, i have always been able to open old PT sessions.

but not new ones with older PT

 

[James Murphy]

before PT7, the file extension for pro tools files was .pts

since PT7 the file extension for pro tools files is .ptf

if you don't see an extension, it's probably just hidden. just add the .pts extension and you should be able to open it in PT7. not sure about PT8.

 

[greyskull]

i could do it for you if you upload it.
If you're on Pc, you may stuggle as its using SDII which i think (don't quote me) don't work on Windows.
You could always try an import session data in a new session.

 

[Skinny Viking]

As far as I know I have no problem opening up SDII files, even if they were done on a mac with no compatibility enforced or whatever. I've done it before with no problems from an old PT5 group of sessions. You said you don't have PT so as long as I there is no problems opening it I can just convert everything to standard wav files and render everything