Importing Audio Files And Regions - DigiDesign Pro Tools Reference Manual

From the Conversion Quality pop-up menu,
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select a quality setting.
Conversion Quality preference
For most applications, the Good or Better set-
ting will yield very good results.
Click Ok.
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Importing Audio Files and
Regions
Pro Tools provides several ways to import audio
files and regions into an open session.
• "Importing Audio Files and Regions Using
Pro Tools Menu Commands" on page 140
• "Importing Audio Files Using the Pro Tools
Application Icon or Alias" on page 141
• "Importing Audio Files and Regions with
Drag & Drop" on page 142
• "Importing Audio from Audio CDs" on
page 142

Importing Audio Files and Regions

Using Pro Tools Menu Commands
Pro Tools provides menu commands to import
audio files or regions.
To import entire tracks from other sessions,
see "Importing Tracks and Track At-
tributes" on page 144.
140 Pro Tools Reference Guide
To import audio files or regions into a session from
the Pro Tools File menu:
Choose File > Import > Audio.
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In the Import Audio dialog, select an audio file
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to display its properties and associated regions.
Figure 6. Import Audio dialog
You can choose to display only a certain file
type (such as AIFF) by selecting the type from
the Show pop-up menu. To display all sup-
ported file types, select All Documents from the
Show pop-up menu.
In the import list, audio files are distinguished
from regions by their icons.
Audio File icon
Audio Region icon
File and Region icons in the Import Audio dialog
On the Mac, Sound Resource files must
have the ".SFIL" extension to be imported
by Pro Tools.