This is another area where the speed of the computer, the memory available and the speed of your hard drives will all contribute to how many tracks you will achieve.
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Just like the Music Production Toolkit, DV Toolkit 2 expands the number of tracks available in Pro Tools LE to 48 and these can be mono or stereo, so it is possible to have 48 stereo tracks (96 voices) all active in an LE Session. This enables you to be able to write automation values for multiple parameters in one step, so taking the automation settings for one Region and imposing them on another, all in one go. When you click on a section you are taken to that section immediately in the Edit window, making it a very speedy way of navigating around a large Session.Īnother major improvement is the implementation of snapshot automation. Another user-interface addition is the Universe Window, which gives you a simple global overview of an entire Session. For this to work well you need a well specified computer, especially on the video display side, as the continuous scroll mode puts a much greater load on the CPU. This is very useful when you are working to picture, as the video will scrub with you as well.ĭV Toolkit 2 adds the 'continuous' scrolling option, where the Regions scroll past a stationary cursor continuously like a piano scroll. The Scrub Trim tool also becomes available (right), enabling you to Trim the end of a Region and scrub it at the same time. For example, I use it to bring in multiple plug-in settings as well as routing from a template Session into a working Session from a client. The DV Toolkit 2 also enables the enhanced Import Session Data features found in HD, where you can choose to import only certain types of data from a source track onto a destination track. Another command, Export Session Info as Text, enables you to export Session info as text in range of formats so you can bring the data into a spreadsheet or database. The Replace Region command enables you to replace all the instances of a particular Region in a Session with another Region in one go, while the Edit to Timeline selection command enables you to copy selections between the timeline and tracks when the Edit and Timeline selections are unlinked. Other features that were previously HD-only include the Replace Region and Edit to Timeline Selection commands.
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Digibase has been covered fairly extensively in SOS before, for instance in our May 2003 review of Pro Tools 6 and this year's series on working with video so I won't go into detail here.
The highlight among the 'unlocked' features is Digibase Pro, which enables you to make and share custom catalogues of media files likes sound effects or samples and do keyword searches from very detailed comments fields, audition the files, and import them into the Session, all from within Pro Tools. In addition to Digitranslator, DINR LE and Vocalign LE, you now also get a whole load of features that were previously available only on HD systems, as well as further bundled software. The original DV Toolkit cost around £700, and video production houses found that it enabled them to use a Pro Tools LE system to put together an audio post-production rig for around £3500, as opposed to having to get an HD system and still have to buy Digitranslator as well! Now Digidesign have released a new version called DV Toolkit 2, and for the same sort of price you get loads more features.
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In addition, there's an LE version of the word-sync'ing application Vocalign from Synchro Arts called Vocalign Project LE, as well as an LE version of Digidesign's own noise-reduction software DINR. For more information on Digitranslator 2, OMF and AFF files and how they are used take a look at 'Working With Video In Pro Tools' in the February 2006 issue of SOS.ĭigibase Pro is a powerful librarian tool for managing sound effects and samples. The software bundle includes Digitranslator 2, which enables Pro Tools systems to read and write OMF and AFF files to and from video edit systems like Apple's Final Cut Pro and Avid's various editing systems, as well as other digital audio workstations. The most important of the 'unlocked' features are the enabling of the timecode ruler and other timecode-related features which are otherwise available only on HD systems. The DV Toolkit is a bundle of software that likewise 'unlocks' a range of additional features for LE users (though unlike the Music Production Toolkit, it's not available for M-Powered users), this time enabling them to handle post-production work on an LE system. Now we are going to explore its partner in the Digidesign software stable. In the June issue we took a look at Digidesign's new Music Production Toolkit. If you want to do serious post-production work in Pro Tools but you can't stretch to an HD system, Digi's new DV Toolkit 2 could be the answer.