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  • Pro Tools vs Avid’s audio tools

    Posted by Martin Callan on July 14, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    My employer would like me to learn Pro Tools. Not a problem…
    Are there any speed benefits for mixing the audio in Pro Tools.
    Most of what we do has VO tracks, SOT, 1 channel of nats and 2 to 4 channels of music. 4 channels when I need to cross between different music beds or edits. Is it faster for leveling out sounds/VOs etc.? Benefits, Pros/Cons?

    We currently have Media Composer/Nitris DX v4.0.3 and hope to upgrade to V5 soon. I have read that 5 has more audio functionality.

    Thanks,

    Marty

    PS Our Pro Tools (LE 7) is on a different workstation.

    Andrew Mckee replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Andrew Mckee

    July 17, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    I know people who edit audio to a decent level on Video NLE systems but I have never seen someone go as fast as a good ProTools operator on Avid or FCP. ProTools is designed for cutting and mixing sound, it has support for higher sample rates, it has a higher internal bit depth and it gives you buses and aux channels and access to better plugins.

    Andy

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