Pro Tools 10 & HDX For Post

[georgia]

just installed PT10 on a intel quad core on 10.6.8. Using ProRemote for fun. Did my first film trailer using an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 with 2 screens 22" flat, also a Blackmagic intensity pro on a third 22" flatscreen, video running was HD 1080p. ran 15 tracks of Dialogue/Music/SFX.... ran well no glitches... All native.

Liking it.

The clip gain is very handy for fixing gross dialogue level issues. I haven't played with it for detail work yet. The Channel strips is nice. Used it alot. I've just started playing with the new Verb that comes with PT10... ...ok. not wildly impressed.

Overall, i'm happy with it and will be upgrading the rest of the systems this month.

We also added a new PICe Raid controller with an 8 disk tower running JABOD... love it. Huge amount of data at my finger tips.


cheers
geo

[PeterN]

Have tried PT10 in a friend's studio. I have PT9 but due to the ridiculous pricing strategy I'll maybe not upgrade. IMHO the update looks like a "copy" of my Nuendo 5.5 Neverthelss, I would update to 10 for, say 300, but 600 bucks for functions I already have with another DAW is..kind of questionable.

[NEWIMA]

Is PT10 able to make changes to the gain/fades(both the beginning and end of a track)/mutes on and off/and able to delete audio clips without having to stop whilst locked to picture? With some DAW's it's possible to hear a piece of audio and effect a change (gain/fade/mute etc) when it's gone through without needing to stop. I'm not a PT user but am considering getting one if it's able to carry out these tasks.

[thierryd]

Originally Posted by NEWIMA

Is PT10 able to make changes to the gain/fades(both the beginning and end of a track)/mutes on and off/and able to delete audio clips without having to stop whilst locked to picture? With some DAW's it's possible to hear a piece of audio and effect a change (gain/fade/mute etc) when it's gone through without needing to stop. I'm not a PT user but am considering getting one if it's able to carry out these tasks.

Yes PT can do all those things

Greetings,

Thierry

[Whitecat]

Just booked in a film sound edit which has to be done in PT due to the usual upstream requests - it will be my first job in PT10, so I will report back in January. Going to do an LCR edit (DX/FX) and then a premix as well (all very indie, as you can imagine)... should be interesting. No showstoppers for anyone yet I hope?

[UnderTow]

Originally Posted by whitecat

No showstoppers for anyone yet I hope?

I haven't even had a single crash in PT10. I've been using it since the last week of October.

Alistair

[ThisIsSka]

Originally Posted by UnderTow

I haven't even had a single crash in PT10. I've been using it since the last week of October.

Alistair

Steady as a rock here, but only been using it a couple of weeks.

Some of the plugins have been refreshed to allow for the new Audiosuite settings, one example is vari-fi. Problem is, I've installed PT10 once, and the plugins/instruments TWICE and they are not updating, what's up with that?

Might it be because I'm using a PT HD|2 system here and hence, the refreshed plugins will all be AAX and not TDM anymore?

[kdm]

Originally Posted by whitecat

No showstoppers for anyone yet I hope?

No audio problems with 10. Midi is another story (for composers at least) - large midi track counts cause unbearable delays with tempo editing and significant delays with other midi functions.

Won't affect audio/post work, but fwiw, that's the only showstopper so far. Back to 9 for me I'm afraid since there's no telling when it will be fixed.

[SkyBarstow]

I'm slightly annoyed that PT10 (not HD) hasn't got the disk cache stuff! I feel that avid have not been clear on the matter. I really had to dig to find info about it. Also when you buy Pt upgrade on their store it says: "Get great responsiveness on slower hard drives with the enhanced disk cache" . Which apparently isn't the RAM disk stuff. Am I the only one that didn't realize this?

I think they should of made that clearer when they were announcing the new version.

Seems everything else is working nice though! Though I haven't got the new Vari-fi plugin that is in their videos.

greetings,
Robin

[Whitecat]

Originally Posted by SkyBarstow

I'm slightly annoyed that PT10 (not HD) hasn't got the disk cache stuff! I feel that avid have not been clear on the matter. I really had to dig to find info about it. Also when you buy Pt upgrade on their store it says: "Get great responsiveness on slower hard drives with the enhanced disk cache" . Which apparently isn't the RAM disk stuff. Am I the only one that didn't realize this?

I think they should of made that clearer when they were announcing the new version.

Seems everything else is working nice though! Though I haven't got the new Vari-fi plugin that is in their videos.

greetings,
Robin

The Complete Production Toolkit does add the RAM cacheing though, so if you're like me and already have that license it makes the upgrade an even better value.

[UnderTow]

Originally Posted by SkyBarstow

I'm slightly annoyed that PT10 (not HD) hasn't got the disk cache stuff! I feel that avid have not been clear on the matter. I really had to dig to find info about it. Also when you buy Pt upgrade on their store it says: "Get great responsiveness on slower hard drives with the enhanced disk cache" . Which apparently isn't the RAM disk stuff. Am I the only one that didn't realize this?

I think they should of made that clearer when they were announcing the new version.

Seems everything else is working nice though! Though I haven't got the new Vari-fi plugin that is in their videos.

greetings,
Robin

If you need a RAM Disk solution (outside of Pro Tools), you might be interested in this thread: RAM Drive for lightening fast DAW response

Alistair

[ThisIsSka]

Originally Posted by UnderTow

If you need a RAM Disk solution (outside of Pro Tools), you might be interested in this thread: RAM Drive for lightening fast DAW response

Alistair

It is worth looking at that, and I don't know of a solution for OS X that can write RAM data to disk while it is being written to RAM (if you get what I mean). So BE CAREFUL with these solutions as you can definitely get burned if you don't write your memory to disk frequently.

[SkyBarstow]

Ok thanks, Ill check that out! Still bloody bad advertising by avid... ok im over it. sortof.

[eschybach]

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about doing a PT 8 LE -> PT 10 upgrade through my Sweetwater rep. I've asked him about mixing surround sound in 10, and he assures me that the option is included but I'm still skeptical from what I've seen on Avid's site. Isn't surround sound (both 7.1 and 5.1) only included in HD and 10 with the included Complete Production Toolkit?

Surely one of you with the straight up PT 10 can help me out please!

Also, as a side-note, how is the OMF and AAF working out? (both OMF/AAF and surround sound would pretty much be my main reason for upgrading).

[insomaniac]

Originally Posted by eschybach

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about doing a PT 8 LE -> PT 10 upgrade through my Sweetwater rep. I've asked him about mixing surround sound in 10, and he assures me that the option is included but I'm still skeptical from what I've seen on Avid's site. Isn't surround sound (both 7.1 and 5.1) only included in HD and 10 with the included Complete Production Toolkit?

Surely one of you with the straight up PT 10 can help me out please!

Also, as a side-note, how is the OMF and AAF working out? (both OMF/AAF and surround sound would pretty much be my main reason for upgrading).

You are correct, you'll need either PT 10 HD or PT 10 w/ the CPTK to enable surround mixing.

As for AAF/OMF import, things are just peachy. Not having to worry about Digi Translator anymore is awesome.

[eschybach]

Thank you Sam! Much appreciated! I guess maybe it's still worth the upgrade, because I can always edit and mix in PT, and then export via OMF to Soundtrack Pro for a final 5.1 mix. Silly that Soundtrack Pro has surround sound mixing and PT requires extra doh for it... *sigh*

--Matt Eschbach

[ThisIsSka]

We're getting multiple DAE errors and a couple of crashes a day here with PT 10 right now. Anyone else experiencing this?

[Mikkel Nielsen]

Hi all

Anyone working with Protools, with an HDX card in a 2010 generation Quad Core Mac?
Im really curious as to how well the quad handles everything not HDX card related. How much or little power it has for the native AAX plugs, video etc.
Thanks alot.

Best wishes

Mikkel

[Mikkel Nielsen]

Hi all

So I bought a Quad to go with the HDX card. Couldnt be happier.
Everything works flawlessly (so far....)

I can see why you should go with an 8core or more if going native, but with my HDX card onboard Im safe.
Still able to run a big amount of native plugs, like Altiverbs etc. Dosent take up to much cpu.

Thanks all

[nebus]

Anyone using PT10HD connecting to and Editshare system?

Wondering if it's possible to get the benefits of streaming A/V as they promise with ISIS with an Editshare NAS rather than localizing files every job.

[Karl.]

Originally Posted by nebus

Anyone using PT10HD connecting to and Editshare system?

Wondering if it's possible to get the benefits of streaming A/V as they promise with ISIS with an Editshare NAS rather than localizing files every job.

Hi everyone,

I would be very interested on an answer on that topic too!

plus, is there any new workflow implementation on PT10 to work in collaboration with media composer in terms of data exchange, session conform, linked edit and so on?

[DaVogi]

Originally Posted by Karl.

Hi everyone,

I would be very interested on an answer on that topic too!

plus, is there any new workflow implementation on PT10 to work in collaboration with media composer in terms of data exchange, session conform, linked edit and so on?

I can't comment on the second question but I answered the first one here: PT10 with Editshare?

[heyjoe]

I am looking to put together a Pro Tools 10 HDX rig for post production purposes. I am looking to keep it at an affordable price so I am considering the following setup.

PT10 HDX running on OSX10.7
HDX OMNI Hardware
Artist Series Mix Interface (8 Fader Bank)

With the setup, I want to use the HDX OMNI as my monitor unit too, taking 2 outputs to a set of active speakers. This will leave the HDX OMNI front panel as my only means of adjusting Control Room Level. I will also need to take another output of my main monitor path to a set of PPM meters, and obviously avoid the OMNI Control Room Level adjustments.

Can anyone see any issues with this setup? I know it's all fairly simple but just want a second opinion before I commit money to the idea.

For clarity, it would be good to know where the control room monitor output physically come out of the back of the HDX OMNI. I understand that the TRS outputs can mirror you main output path, but is this in addition to the Control Room Level affected output?

Any help or clarification would be greatly appreciated.

[cananball]

Originally Posted by heyjoe

I am looking to put together a Pro Tools 10 HDX rig for post production purposes. I am looking to keep it at an affordable price so I am considering the following setup.

PT10 HDX running on OSX10.7
HDX OMNI Hardware
Artist Series Mix Interface (8 Fader Bank)

With the setup, I want to use the HDX OMNI as my monitor unit too, taking 2 outputs to a set of active speakers. This will leave the HDX OMNI front panel as my only means of adjusting Control Room Level. I will also need to take another output of my main monitor path to a set of PPM meters, and obviously avoid the OMNI Control Room Level adjustments.

Can anyone see any issues with this setup? I know it's all fairly simple but just want a second opinion before I commit money to the idea.

For clarity, it would be good to know where the control room monitor output physically come out of the back of the HDX OMNI. I understand that the TRS outputs can mirror you main output path, but is this in addition to the Control Room Level affected output?

Any help or clarification would be greatly appreciated.

There are new options in the pro tools i/o setup that allow you to assign what output paths are controlled by the monitor controller. So yes you should he able to route the same signal out of 2 sets of outputs, one controlled by monitor section and one not.