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Protools – DV Toolkit
Does anyone know if the DV toolkit for Protools is going to be compatible with Protools 9?
My audio editor is currently running Protools 8.0.3, but his company will be upgrading his system to Protools 9 in a few weeks. The project we are working on now is a short film cut on Final Cut Pro and sent to us as OMF files. Before we purchase the DV toolkit, we want to make sure that it will work with Protools 9 in a few weeks when we upgrade, incase we have to go back and make any changes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
John
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9 Replies
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You most likely will not need the DV Toolkit.
Most of the features of DV Toolkit were rolled (free) into v.9.
~Michael
.: michael kammes mpse
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply. That link was very helpful.
– John
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That said, I believe it still works. My CPTK for v8 works with v9.
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Just for clarity:
PT9 incorporates all of the features of PT8 + DVToolkit without having to buy a license for DVToolkit (i.e. DVToolkit is phased out with the introduction of PT9).
PT9 does not incorporate the features of the Complete Production Toolkit. For that, you need a license for the Complete Production Toolkit (either CPT + PT8 or a new CPT2 license).
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PT9 incorporates all of the features of PT8 + DVToolkit.
Sorry but NOT all features of PT8+DVTK2 are in PT9:
That shows you, for example, that multiple videoclips are missing, as well as replace region, and more.
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Also, you may upgrade the DVTK2 to CPTK2 at reduced cost. This will give you all functionality of PTHD.
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Thanks for the clarification on my clarification. I think I was just thinking of the classic DVToolkit, not realizing what was added in DVToolkit2. Good thing they’re simplifying the line – I use this stuff everyday and even I didn’t know!
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No problem. Just went through the process of configuring a PT9 on my portable Avid, and dived into the matter. I found the entire product line setup quite confusing myself.
Note for example that if you buy a new CPTK2, you will get much less plugins bundles than if you buy the old CPTK1, even though the latter is 25% cheaper. I think the upgrade from MPTK to CPTK2 is the best deal, though, IIRC. AFAIK, DVTK2 to CPTK2 gives you more bundled plugins, though.
CPTK1 to CPTK2 is no upgrade, you can just use the old one on PT9, there’s no difference.
Main reasons for me to have CPTK2 over no toolkit are 5.1/7.1 track support, and multiple video clips and video tracks in a session.
Gotta say I love having all those tools available on my MBP.
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Nice. I’m in the process of upgrading 11 HD systems at the office to PT9HD/Snow (from PT7/Tiger/G5). I just recently got an i7 iMac myself and upgraded to PT9/003 (from PT5LE/001). I even managed to get an upgrade from my 001 (which I thought was at this point a boat anchor) to a 003 with PT8LE, which I crossgraded to PT9. I love that I don’t have to pay for the DV Toolkit to get timecode and AAF support with 9. That was enough reason for me to pay the crossgrade price. I’ll keep my surround projects at the office though – strictly stereo stuff at home…
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