r/protools 1h ago

Poor Windows interface on "Intro": is the paid version any different?

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I'm really unimpressed with the Windows interface, particularly the amount of screen space wasted, and how the sub-windows work.

I would expect to be able to dock the mixer view on a secondary screen, for example -- they're stuck inside this fat, ugly wrapper, fixed to a single screen.

My guess is that this is exactly the same for the paid version; I'm not too concerned about this with the free tier, because it's free, but I would only be interested in purchasing something that feels like it's actually designed to work natively with Windows.


r/protools 22h ago

Anyway to import markers into ProTools from like a .txt ?

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With long form audio, and a human proofer marking mistakes in an excel sheet, I would like to get all timestamps imported into ProTools, without manually enter the time for each.

Any way to do that?

Latest PT Studio - Windows - tried having ai create a doc for me, but I cannot import it.

Ai created a MIDI file for me, which I can import, but no markers show up.


r/protools 1h ago

Help Request How to import markers from Davinci to Protools free? 📌

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Hello guys,

I'm working on my first feature film right now. I talked with the filmmaker and agreed that it would make much more sense for him to give me feedback via timeline markers—so I can import them directly into Pro Tools instead of him manually typing out timecodes in a text file.

He created the markers in DaVinci Resolve and exported them for me as an EDL.

Now I figured out that Pro Tools can't just import that EDL as markers; it seems like it needs to be converted into a .ptx file first. I found an online tool for this, but it costs €15/month. I feel like there has to be a free way to do such a simple task, right?

Does anyone know a free alternative or workflow to get DaVinci Resolve markers cleanly into Pro Tools?

(Note: I already tried converting the EDL to a .mid file, but the markers end up out of position and drift apart as the film goes on.)

Thanks in advance!


r/protools 9h ago

Pro Tools not responding on MacBook. Completely new to this

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I’m on macOS Tahoe and Pro Tools 2026.4.1. Hi everyone. I’m completely new to Pro Tools and am unable to launch the app. As seen on the right of the photo, there is a blank window where my recently downloaded plug ins were showing up. I was unable to click anything on the screen or close out of Pro Tools so I stupidly restarted my MacBook. After restarting it, I cannot open Pro Tools. I keep getting the message “you can’t open the application Pro Tools because it is not responding.” I think this has something to do with the plug ins I downloaded. I manually went through my downloaded files and deleted the plug ins. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.


r/protools 12h ago

error Pro Tools 2026.4.1 doesnt work properly when used on 2 screens.

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I just downloaded today the latest pro tools version (coming from the 2024 one) and I started getting glitches when using in on 2 different screens with different resolution. When I try scaling both monitors to the same percentage y works but everything looks blurry; with different scales, pro tools doesn't let me drag it to occupy the whole second screen (as shown in the image); and changing the High DPI scaling override (as google recommended) does nothing. Any solution? It is getting really annoying to work like this.
I have windows 11.