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Originally Posted by saltysea  Up till now I've been doing fairly small audio gigs for Post but have some hour long documentaries to get my teeth into later this year.
Would LE+DV give me enough of a better toolset and compatibility upgrade or should I be looking at HD system from the off? |
I would stay at LE+DVTK. you will get enough tracks to do a doc and probably enough power for plugs. just watch your latency due to plug delay....on an LE it can add up, especially on DIA tracks. do a temp DIA pre-dub to a track and see how far you are off, like, by say more than a frame. if you are, then create a new playlist on the DIA track and slide the regions back the delay amount. your original playlist will contain your original placement if things get wiggy.
here is my take. I have worked in other programs, Nuendo, Fairlight, Dyaxsis (remember that?), Logic, DP, Deck (he he)... i found them slower than PT. why? i am SURE it is because i do not know them as well and do not work on them as often. i can
FLY on PT. i have done enough editing on it to really know what i need to do. EVERYONE i have known who said PT is slow I have found out that they do not know the program well enough....and they were doing things slowly, or in a way that could have been done faster.
once you have edited dozens of phone prompts, radio tags and the like, you get fast.
My point is : ANY of the DAW's can work for editing, but ya gotta learn it. Take people who say that PT is slow with a grain of salt. Or take my opinion with a grain of salt if you prefer. But LEARN your program. then you will be as fast on it as any of the others.
also, as has been said elsewhere, "fast schmast! is it GOOD editing." so you can cut backgrounds fast. But are they GOOD and Useable! I have seen punks come through here who were fast, but their work was unusable. they had to re-do it. took more than twice the time.