Hope you enjoy Poland - I'd like to get to visit the country most of my family is from some day. But on to the subject at hand:supersonic wrote:Now here is what I call real world input. Thanks! I have done close 50 film projects in DP, scoring and mixdown. Since I did the scoring and mixing and all in-house I could always get away with doing it this way. But now that I am teaching at the Science University of Gdansk (Poland) where they have Protools I feel I need to jump into it on order to give them a real world option. DP is practically unknown here in Poland. I begun using it 20 years ago back in France where I studied at SAE and where I worked for many years afterwards. I have PT11 and have used it sparingly so I know a little bit about it. I love the template system they have. Less cumbersome then DP's.
The multi chunk system in DP is a god send and I would not think of actually scoring in anything else. I am planning on showing them this side of it while concentrating on PT for the recording and mixdown since everyone here uses it (either this or Nuendo). Few questions pop up after what you said.
@rockitcity
- Why do they use 4 independent systems? Can't one big system handle it all? Is it for the redundancy's sake?
- what do you mean by sub-path routing? The ability to send to many destinations at the same time?
- DP has destructive recording though I never use it.
@Musicman691
What do you mean by multiple video tracks?
I use VEP pro a lot. I find it more stable with the big projects? Anyone here doing the same?
What surface control do you use?
DP Control IOS - has this broken recently? I have been trying to us it and it keeps crashing.
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What I meant by the non-dsp version of PT only allowing one video tracks is just that - it only allows one track or line of video in a session. In other words you can't have multiple video lines going in separate tracks. You can have as many audio tracks as you want (up to the limits of the system) of course. What version of PT are they running there? Whatever is is do NOT go for PT12 right now as there's too many issues with the new release and a lot of the promised features aren't in it. If you want to talk more about PT email me off-board and we'll discuss as I'm trying to not go too far here with it.
Depending on the daw in use VEPro 5 can really help with stability (especially in PT). What's nice about VEPro5 is you can keep things loaded in it as you change sessions/projects. You will need the Steinberg dongle to use it though as it won't work with the software elicenser.