Forte! Import

Forte! Import listens to what's in the file and classifies tracks automatically, grouping drums, vocals, and other instruments the way you'd sort them yourself. Everything runs locally, so nothing gets uploaded to a server to make the call. The result is a session that lands pre-sorted instead of a flat list of unnamed regions.

Drop in an AAF from Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, or Pro Tools, and the clips, fades, gains, automation, and timecode come through clean. The app flags anything that can't survive the import before it reaches your timeline, which saves you from hunting for missing pieces later. It reads deep metadata too, like channel name, scene, take, and source timecode.

Forte! Import connects to the mix template you already use, so there's no new structure to adopt. You teach it your naming, colors, and routing once, and every project after that lands organized your way. Call it mix prep automation that remembers your habits. That consistency matters when multiple editors touch the same show.

It doesn't only handle new imports. Point it at an existing Pro Tools session, including ones that came in from another editor, and it reorganizes the tracks to your setup. This turns messy handoff sessions into something you can actually start mixing.

Imports and exports can run together in one mixed queue, so you can fire off a run of jobs and walk away. This batch processing for audio is part of the suite tier, aimed at rooms where one project at a time isn't realistic. Set the queue and let it run.

With the suite tier, a single AAF can split into separate sessions for dialogue, music, and effects, each named and routed to your template. It's the difference between handing one editor a wall of tracks and handing three editors exactly what each one needs.

The whole thing runs on your Mac with no connection required, and the suite tier keeps working air-gapped. For facilities that keep sensitive work off any network, that's the feature that makes the rest usable.