What's so special about clip effects?

[K Roche]

Originally Posted by noiseboyuk

Equally trivial to do with AudioSuite. I too don't really get what is so great about Clip FX - perhaps as a temp? In all the examples you give, I'd have zero problem with making those corrections permanent in AS.

My main problem with Clip FX right now is that all systems that load your project have to be 12.6 or higher. For Post, that feels a long way off. For someone either using only a small number of known suites or just working alone, I see it as another option that might be suited for particular tasks, but it still feels pretty un-essential to me.

Huh ? You have basically answered you own question

The whole point of clip FX is to be "temporary" just like all the other plugins, except on a clip by clip basis.
Yes you can do the same with AS but that requires more actual steps. So like many work flow options it has the potential to save some steps and thus time. If that is "special" or not ,is totally subjective not objective.

As far as compatibility it seems that any session with clip FX on will actually play back/with those FX on a non Clip FX system. But the clip FX will not be editable.

Here is an excerpt from PT expert:
Although this is an HD only feature, for easy and smooth collaboration and interoperability between any Pro Tools system, Avid have made sure that when you open a session with Real-time Clip Effects in Pro Tools Vanilla, users will be able to playback with those effects, you just won’t be able to edit or modify them. However Vanilla users will be able to choose to Bypass or Render the clip effects. When the session returns to an HD system it will again be possible to edit or modify the clip effects.




Also if you have no problem rendering the AS adjustments, then you should have no problem committing a clip that has FX on it either, and that would also make it compatible with any system that does not have 12.6 .

It's just a work flow option, like many work flow options it's usefulness varies depending on the individual and is subjective , if it "feels pretty un-essential" to you then it does, but that has no bering on how useful it may "feel" to others.

[simonchase]

Dialogue editor here:

I think of clip gain and clip fx as like a pre-premix. Getting clips so that they're basically "right" before any automation is written or choices made. Audio suite could do it but that's not tweakable in the same way.

It looks great to me.

[groundcontrol]

If you're doing post it's a very useful feature that unfortunately needs further development of its present implementation to reach its fullest potential.