Avid Announces Media Composer 7 and Pro Tools 11, iOS Compatible Recording Hardware

[devilbond]

I remember when a Media Composer setup would cost you $250,000.

 

[Anaemik]

Offline bounce? FINALLY!

 

[fourthtunz]

Nice to see they finally have these features, but they're the last major DAW to go 64 bit (over three years ago for Logic), and all the others have been doing offline bouncing for years. Not much else listed, so this mostly looks like a release catching up to the other DAWs. I guess they also are hyping "more power" but that sounds like they just fixed up the native plugin processing which has never been particularly efficient. And along with that comes loss of compatibility of plugin formats and plenty of hardware - it's a painful and expensive road being a PT user these days.

It doesn't have a whole lot more bells and whistles but they had to do a whole rewrite from what I understand. Being tied to the hardware evidently being the reason why 64 bit took so long. People bash protools but as an owner I've always been surprised at how well the systems hold their value.
As much as they're bashed for being behind, they are still the studio standard the world over. I would think the offline bounce and the speed increase would be worth the upgrade?
Here's a nice page on the upgrades.
http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/hom...s-more-useful-than-a-boob-job-avid-pro-t.html

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I remember when a Media Composer setup would cost you $250,000.

Ha, and I was so happy when Premiere came out so I could afford to edit video!!
Ah and the Newtech video toaster!!

 

[LaDirection]

Meanwhile, Apple is hard at work bringing us back the features we had in Final Cut Pro 7, released three years ago...

 

[milo]

It doesn't have a whole lot more bells and whistles but they had to do a whole rewrite from what I understand.

That's exactly what they said last year when they released 10 with hardly anything new, $999 for the HD users. It's a transitional release...except now they've had two transitional releases. Honestly, they should have skipped 10 and just gone straight to this one.

they are still the studio standard the world over.

For certain things, particularly stuff like post mixing and recording music where it's mostly live players. For other things, many people have moved on to native solutions.

One other weird thing is that it looks like they have dumped the toolkit add on that used to enable things like surround mixing and advanced video on systems without Avid hardware. Odd choice and seems like a step backwards, plenty of PT users aren't happy about it.