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 "id": "pro-tools-session-file-5-9",
 "name": "Pro Tools Session File",
 "family": "pro-tools-session-file-format-family",
 "category": "text",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "ptf",
   "pts"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1951"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q125869754"
  ],
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    "hex": "0330303130313131313030313031303131",
    "notes": "Pro Tools Session File 5-9"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
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    "name": "Pro Tools Session File 5-9",
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 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "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.",
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  {
   "name": "Pro Tools",
   "url": "https://www.avid.com/pro-tools",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Graveman",
   "url": "http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "pro-tools-session-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "pro-tools-session-file-format-family"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1951",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1951",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q125869754",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125869754",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "5-9",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}