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Originally Posted by warmowski
While it's probably true that ProTools is becoming less ubiquitous in general, and that other software packages will be used for greater numbers of recordings over time, the computer industry has shown that lots of technical standards (and I use the term loosely) hang around for reasons that aren't that great, long past their heyday.
The history in general has been that software changes operations practice and not the other way around. As long as this general trend remains in place, real portability of session files will probably continue to be a pipe dream fighting its way around PT and competing vendors file structures for the foreseeable future.
It will probably never get to the point that the chore of freezing/zero-aligning the audio in yr sessions in order to prepare them for a transfer to a new platform will be replaced with some universal session standard that grants session portability.
The industry as a whole is still immature and vendor slap-fights still reign supreme.
-r
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While your last line is terribly valid and relevant "slap fights" ...it's all a battle for market share. Unfortunately, Digi has a substantial amount of marketing/buying power ...and their business practices ensure that "once you're in PT, you'll stay there, unless you want to spend money to go another route, and forsake most of the money you've spent already." So, it's a question of initial investment. If a studio invests $30k into a HD rig...they've got a pretty substantial reason to stay put. Of course those converters can be used in logic, etc, but you just lost all your plugins, all your session imports are going to be a bitch if you need to work on the old PT sessions, etc.
Getting off topic...the whole reason I started this response was to assert that there IS infact a universal exchange format. Digi/Avid calls it OMF (open media file/framework, I forget), others call it AXF, and there another of others. These allow you to import/export your files/regions as they are organized, still independently editable into the new software. It's a genius idea. The hitch of course is that if you want to import/export to/from PT, it's a $500 plug-in (see they've got you coming and going!!!). Most other softwares (Logic) include OMF/AXF export (and maybe import?) standard, which is very cool; unfortunately, if you want to get your logic session into PT, it's gonna cost that importing studio $500....and most music studios don't have it, and won't unless they have a number of sessions coming in that way. Maybe the economy will change as some of you have discussed to a "hey man, if you can't take my Cubase sessions I'm going elsewhere" mentality...but, we'll see
Sound for picture or Post-audio houses generally have it, because they deal w/ OMF exports from Avid (again, industrly standard in Video post due to monopolistic business practices...but slowly declining towards Final Cut Pro(HD)...)
So, that's my two cents.