Exporting Audition .wav files for ProTools correctly????

I'm currently using Audition 3.0, recording multiple live tracks (around 20 instruments at one time) in multitrack mode. While thes e tracks are recording live, Audition is creating the .wav files (source files) in a specified folder....correct?  Now, I've recorded/captured the audio/wav files for the project, and I now want to export these .wav/source files onto a portable hard drive and load (import) them into ProTools for final mixdowns. What are the correct steps in exporting the Audition .wav files, in the right ProTools format, so that ProTools will recognize them properly and open in a PT session?
I found a post on your forum about this saying:
"Audition will export files directly in PT's restricted 24-bit format as well if needed (Audition's norm is 32-bit floating point)."
I have another person doing our mixdown using ProTools, if you're wondering why I'm asking this and not using Audition for the mixdo wn.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back from somebody on how to do this.

You can easily use Audition's "Batch Processing" tool to convert your 32-bit source files to a ProTools compatible 24-bit format.  Switch to "Edit View" and click File > Batch Processing...  In the dialog that comes up, click the "Add Files" button and select the WAV files recorded for your session.  (These files will be in a subfolder of where you saved the original session, named "<session name>_Recorded"  For example, if you created your session in \My Documents\Adobe\Audition\3.0\My Session\  the recordings will be stored in \My Documents\Adobe\Audition\3.0\My Session\My Session_Recorded\ )
After the files are loaded, click the "New Format" tab and set the Output Format to "Windows PCM (*.WAV)" then click the Format Properties button and choose "24-bit packed int (type 1, 24-bit)"  and click OK.  Click the "Destination" tab and choose a folder to collect the new files, and click "Run Batch."
After the conversion process has completed, you should be able to send those files to your ProTools engineer for mixing.

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