1. Open your Pro Tools session. Put your CD into the CD player built into the MAC. The CD will show up on the desk top in “Finder” as a CD icon and named “Audio CD 1.” You can check it by clicking in the upper-right corner to switch to “Finder” and “Hide Others” so you can see the desktop. When you are sure it is there return to Pro Tools by clicking in the upper right corner again and selecting Pro Tools.
2. On the Pro Tools menu bar click “Movie.”
3. From the drop-down menu that appears, select “Import Audio from Other Movie.”
4. A dialog window opens. Choose “Desktop,” and then look for “Audio CD 1.” Double click it. The window will display a list of tracks with generic names, “Track 1,” “Track 2,” and so on.
5. Choose the track or tracks you want. Then click on the “Convert” button.
6. A new dialog box opens. Click on “Options.” Choose 44.1 (if that is what you are working in), 16 bit, stereo. At this point you can also choose how much of the track you want by sliding the markers on the time bar at the bottom of the window. If you want the whole track, just leave it be. When you are done, click “OK.”
7. You are returned to the prior dialog window. This is where you choose where to send the file you are making from the track you import. Use the buttons to locate your partition, and then your folder, and then your Audio Files. When you click down to the Audio Files level, all your audio files in the Audio Files folder show up in the window, grayed out. Now you should name the file you are about to create. Give it a name you recognize and include a portion of your own name. You do this by clicking and dragging to highlight the box below “Save Converted File As:” After you have renamed the file, choose “Save” by clicking.
8. A new box appears. “Track Import Window.” Click “OK.” Another window opens. “Choose Destination Folder on a Valid Audi Drive.” It should say “Audio Files” at the top, the destination folder you already chose. The bar at the bottom of the window should say “Select Audio Files.’” Click this bar
9. The computer starts to work. You’ll se a “Processing” window. And “Calculating.”
10. When it is done the windows disappear and a strange silence descends upon your session. If you look in your Regions list you will see a brand-spanking-new region named whatever you named this imported track. Now just drag it over into whatever stereo track you want and, hey presto, you’ve got your audio from a CD.