What is Audiosuite

[Oakmozart]

Avid has what’s known as the “Audio Tool,” which is Audio Meters. There are also built-in Audio Meters in the Avid Timeline.

AudioSuite is nothing more than a bunch of stock Pro Tools filters (Audio Effects) that Avid includes in its software. I’m not in front of my Avid system right now, or I’d give you a rundown of the filters and what they do. Avid is extremely weak in its audio department, and these are not comparable to the tools in, say, Vegas. AudioSuite only allows you to apply 1 effect to an Audio track. Not cool. In XPro, you also can’t edit anything smaller than a frame, be it video or audio. This is something that’s available on Avid’s higher-end NLE systems, but missing in XPro. It’s something we XPro users have been asking for for years.

You’d be best off getting a copy of Pro Tools LE to work with your Avid XPro system. That’ll set you back at least $500, plus the cost to get the DV Toolkit, for seamless passing of video/audio between PT LE and XPro. Problem is, it’ll cost you $995! This is one of Avid’s most inherent weaknesses.

In Avid’s defense though, it’s still a great NLE, and there’s ways to send your audio from XPro to another DAW program, such as Encore, Sound Forge, etc.

[Mike G.]

The best AudioSuite plug-in, in my opinion, is “Time Compression/Expansion”. As a frequent network promo Editor, this function is priceless. You can speed-up or slow down any audio clip, without changing the pitch. Especially handy if you have a VO that you need to be, say, 20 seconds, but was read at 22 seconds.