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Format

Pro Tools Session File

Summary

Name
Pro Tools Session File
Version
5-9
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1951
Format type
Text (Structured)
Description
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation software application developed by AVID Technology. A Pro Tools session file contains the configuration of a Pro Tools session including settings, plugin details, references to audio and midi tracks etc. Pro Tools Session files do not contain audio data directly.
File extensions
ptf, pts
Source
Preservica / Preservica

Internal signatures

Pro Tools Session File 5-9

Note
BOF; Offset: 0; Bytes: 0x03, ASCII “0010111100101011” {1} 0x01 – this is based on information from the ‘ptformat’ Pro Tools file format parser - https://github.com/zamaudio/ptformat/blob/master/ptformat.cc#L402

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
0330303130313131313030313031303131{1}01
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V118

    Release date
    30 April 2024

    Pro Tools Session File 5-9: Signature researched and samples provided by Preservica.

    Pro Tools Session File 5-9: Full entry added. Submitted by Preservica.