How is 2020.11 ?

[Cheesehead]

Yep, it runs great on Catalina.
Anyone else noticed how much faster the offline bounce speed is with this version.
Previously I was only getting 4.5x ish and now I can get 7 to 10x on a complicated mix with loads of plugs and automation!
I still get problems with AVE switched on though, crashes and errors.
Hence, like friendlybunny, I've started using Video Slave.
Although, AVE tries to switch itself back on all the time, I have to keep checking its off!!??

[citysoundman]

Thanks for all the replies.

I've been staying on Mojave because of no more QT in Catalina. Just curious, is there any real benefit to going to Catalina?

[friendlybunny]

I was getting video engine errors at first, but now video is running smoothly. Finally a working video engine (knock on wood)!

I have been importing mp4 videos and it will import the audio track as well. Runs smooth and fast. I prefer my system with Catalina compared to Mojave. I am running a new macbook pro that will only run Catalina. It has replaced my old maxed cheesegrater, and everything is much faster, with more monitors.

I did try the public beta of export to quicktime and it worked. The quicktime encoding was a bit slow and taxed my computer pretty heavily. So I think they will probably optimize it in the future. The export to quicktime in video slave is much faster.

I'm very happy with this new pro tools with Catalina. I seem to be cruising along much faster, and I'm not using video slave at the moment. Video engine seems more stable now than Mojave (so far).

[reichman]

All good with 2020.11 on macOS 10.14.6. Dark mode!

[marre]

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

Yep, it runs great on Catalina.
Anyone else noticed how much faster the offline bounce speed is with this version.
Previously I was only getting 4.5x ish and now I can get 7 to 10x on a complicated mix with loads of plugs and automation!
I still get problems with AVE switched on though, crashes and errors.
Hence, like friendlybunny, I've started using Video Slave.
Although, AVE tries to switch itself back on all the time, I have to keep checking its off!!??

You have to remove all movie files from the session, also those in the clip library, otherwise PT will launch AVE every time you start a session that contains movie clips!

[BobbyDazzler]

Performance on win10 seems better, and I haven't seen any of the weird graphics glitches I was getting on the previous version release.
The dark mode is ok, but I imagine it will be tweaked soon to improve some of the criticisms it's getting.
It's a thumbs up from me

[Cheesehead]

You have to remove all movie files from the session, also those in the clip library, otherwise PT will launch AVE every time you start a session that contains movie clips!

Thanks marre, that works!
Its a shame it does that. I like to have the video files in there for re-conforming checks.

[MixerGuy]

Originally Posted by marre

You have to remove all movie files from the session, also those in the clip library, otherwise PT will launch AVE every time you start a session that contains movie clips!

that makes sense to me.

[reidj]

Originally Posted by friendlybunny

I'm running some large track count film mixes. Seems to be fine, maybe a little better than the previous version.

I'm also using an h264 mp4 file in pro tools and it's working(!)

I usually use video slave, but I imported an mp4 just to check it out. I have been working all day and forgot that I wasn't using video slave. Pretty great.

I'm using Catalina, so I don't know how well it will work on Mojave.

Can you tell me if the Bounce to MOV working properly on Catalina?

[friendlybunny]

I have only done some simple stereo bounces to QuickTime, and it worked fine.

It just seemed very slow, and taxed my computer pretty hard.