Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PTF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PTF to another file type
To convert PTF sessions to another format, you need Avid Pro Tools or other Data software.
Convert a file to PTF
To convert other file formats to the "Project Session & Theme Data" file type, you need software like Avid Pro Tools or a similar tool.
About PTF files
The .PTF extension is heavily fragmented, primarily acting as either a legacy Avid Pro Tools session file (versions 7 through 9), a Sony PlayStation Portable theme file, an E-Transcript legal document for Thomson Reuters, or a MaxSea TimeZero marine navigation waypoint file. Because it serves so many disparate, proprietary applications, handling a .PTF is notoriously frustrating. Pro Tools session files, for example, do not contain actual audio. They only store project layouts, MIDI data, and file paths. If you do not have the accompanying external audio folders, the file is functionally useless. Likewise, E-Transcript .PTF files are heavily locked down to prevent tampering, forcing lawyers to download specialized, outdated viewing software just to read a document. PSP themes are obsolete console system files that modern operating systems cannot natively parse. When attempting to convert a .PTF audio session, the best targets are modern PTX formats or exporting the tracks as standard WAV or OMF files. Legal transcripts are best converted to PDF for universal accessibility. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because the data structures are closed-source and highly specific to their parent applications. Standard online converters fail to process .PTF files because they lack the proprietary decoding engines. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our engine inspects the file's internal hexadecimal signature to determine whether it is an audio session, a secure transcript, or console data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your PTF file.
If you want to convert PTF file to CTF, PDF, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS or ALAC, you can use Avid Pro Tools or similar software from the "Audio Session & Console Theme" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to PTF, try Avid Pro Tools or another comparable tool in the "Audio Session & Console Theme" category.
The PTF Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PTF converter.