Avid Technology : Start Collaborating More Easily with Pro Tools 2018

We introduced Avid Cloud Collaboration in Pro Tools 12.5, providing a totally new way for artists to collaborate remotely by sharing Pro Tools sessions and we're constantly looking at ways that we can improve the workflow and make collaboration as smooth and painless as possible. Pro Tools 2018 adds a new feature that makes it easier to take advantage of Pro Tools' powerful Cloud Collaboration, enjoy revision enabled Project files, and invite others to collaborate in the cloud.

Seasoned Pro Tools users will be very familiar with Session folders and files. The Session folder can be stored anywhere on your local or shared storage and inside that folder you will find your session file, audio files, video files etc.

In Pro Tools 12 we introduced a new way of working, the Project. A Project is similar to a Session but it is Cloud-enabled and ready for collaboration. The Project is synced with the Cloud (or not, more of that in a moment) and synced to a local cache. You may want to change the location of the local cache if you want to store Projects on your media drive. To do this, just go to Preferences > Operation and set the path for Project Media Cache.

If you want to use Cloud Collaboration then you need to be working in a Project. However, you may have already started work using a regular Session. In order to make the process of going from Session to Project as smooth as possible we have added a new option in the File menu called 'Start Collaboration…'.