orchetect
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7 months ago It looks like there are now 5 available global marker tracks in a session. (See here)
I just discovered that the Markers list in the session info text file now contains two additional columns as of PT 2023.12: TRACK NAME and TRACK TYPE.
SESSION NAME: Test
SAMPLE RATE: 48000.000000
BIT DEPTH: 24-bit
SESSION START TIMECODE: 00:59:50:00
TIMECODE FORMAT: 24 Frame
# OF AUDIO TRACKS: 2
# OF AUDIO CLIPS: 0
# OF AUDIO FILES: 0
M A R K E R S L I S T I N G
# LOCATION TIME REFERENCE UNITS NAME TRACK NAME TRACK TYPE COMMENTS
1 01:00:00:00 480000 Samples Marker 1 Markers Ruler
2 01:00:01:00 528000 Samples Marker 2 Markers 2 Ruler Some comments
3 01:00:02:00 576000 Samples Marker 3 Markers 3 Ruler
4 01:00:03:00 624000 Samples Marker 4 Markers 4 Ruler
5 01:00:04:00 672000 Samples Marker 5 Markers 5 Ruler
6 01:00:05:00 720000 Samples Marker 6 Audio 1 Track More comments
7 01:00:06:00 768000 Samples Marker 7 Audio 2 Track DAWFileKit will need to be updated to parse the new text file format.
https://www.avid.com/resource-center/whats-new-in-pro-tools-202312
Pro Tools 2023.12 adds new marker features such as multiple marker rulers and improved marker window ("memory location" window) filtering and filter presets.
It also adds more control over how markers on tracks and markers in rulers are imported and exported - but only to/from Pro Tools sessions it seems. And its session file format remains fairly proprietary and unreadable/unwritable.
For interchange with other software, there seems to be no new features. We are still limited to:
It would be worth checking to see if the session info text file's format has changed in any way with the new updates.
The last update round, Pro Tools introduced track markers (#20) and it did not alter the text file formatting at all. Track markers are merged with ruler markers and exported in the same single marker list in the text file, without any additional information regarding their usage or associated track name from the session.