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Alex Alexzander shares his experiences with the new Avid Studio Toolkit 5.6
Alex has worked with non-linear editing software since 1996, and specifically with Avid for the last 3 years. He is an active member of the Avid Community Forums and co-founder of two Avid user groups, based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has published many how-to articles, primarily on the Creative Cow. He shares his experiences with the new Avid Studio Toolkit 5.6.
A lot of people might tell you that Avid, unlike Adobe and Apple, doesn’t have the tight integration that Adobe and Apple enjoy with their editing suites. I don’t believe that is true. Avid does indeed have a suite-type product, and it comes in two forms. There is the Studio Toolkit, which is an add-on to Avid Media Composer, Newscutter, and Xpress Pro. Then there are two versions of the Avid Xpress Studio suite. These come in two flavors: one being the Studio Essentials package, and the other being the Studio Complete package. The Studio Toolkit is a subset of the Studio Essentials and Studio Complete package. This is its overwhelming strength. It is because of this that Avid Media Composer, Avid Newscutter, and Avid Xpress Pro customers each have the option to fundamentally change their editing experience into an editing suite experience. This is because the Studio Toolkit suite of applications provides the very type of integration advantage customers are looking for when comparing Avid to the Adobe and Apple suites and capabilities mentioned above.
The Avid Studio Toolkit v5.6 includes AvidFX 5.6, AvidDVD 5.6, and Avid 3D 5.6. Each of these is designed to work together with Avid Xpress Pro 5.6, Avid Newscutter 6.6, or Avid Media Composer 2.6.
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The article was very informative. I happen to totally agree with the article. Thanks for all your time and for sharing your experience.
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