Film Sound Designers, How is PT8?

[Xollop]

I'm considering upgrading to PTLE8 eventually, but I'm unsure about making the change. It might be an inevitability as PTLE 7.4.2 isn't even starting up properly under the new Snow Leopard regime I'm running.
I primarily use ProTools for sound design, foley, editing mixing etc for Film and Video. Although LE is incredibly limited compared to Logic or SDTK Pro as far as it's ability to work with video or surround sound (unless you fork out a ridiculous amount of money), I still prefer the editing environment and the up-until-recent stability of the software.
Point I'm getting at, how is Protools LE 8 working for those of you that are working with Video and sound design? Better than 7?
thanks!

[tamasdragon]

Consider that snow leopard is not even supported yet by digidesign.
10.5.8 is qualified by digi.
Tamas Dragon

[Xollop]

I'm well aware. Doesn't quite address my question.

[ns10]

Hi
I recently graduated from a music tech course. Many moons ago I used to work on an AMS Audiofile in post production.
All modern DAW's give one too many options at times but overall we are now in the land of milk and honey.
I used PT8 for my finals, a film project, TV add's and idents. PT8 finally offers a load of decent plugins as part of the package and midi editing is slick. Elastic time offers all sorts of abuse opportunities for fresh sound design ideas.
Get stuck in.
However as mentioned by another user PT doesn't have it's Snow shoes yet so watch out for that.
Have fun

[Ian Palmer]

I am in the camp that lets other people test the waters with new software first. I work with 7.3 HD on OSX 10.4.9 as it's perfectly stable. As it's HD it would cost a lost of money to upgrade (all the plugins too etc) so my company plays it safe in not upgrading often. It is good practice to let these systems settle down and all the problems fixed before parting with large amounts of cash. The common mistake people make too is upgrading OS or PT and use it in conjunction with software that isn't supported by Digi, then moan it's not working.

[docbop]

You'd probably get more response if you posted it in the Post and Surround area of the DUC.

Why are you even interesting in jumping to SL if you have stable systems. Production environments I've worked in we didn't moved to new systems till we had good reason to and even then only after evaluation on a test system.

People are wanting to jump to SL, but what is the driving reason other than its new. What is SL fixing that makes it so necessary to jump before letting it prove itself. IMO there are some pretty significant architectural changes I want to see how stable they are before moving over.

[Xollop]

Thanks NS10, I'm in the same boat, just graduating from MICA with a BFA in Video (Sound specialization).
I'm running a 4 year old MBP with some self upgraded parts (ram, hard-drive etc) and while I keep my computers immaculate, it was showing it's age. The benefit of upgrading to Snow Leopard was worth sacrificing temporary compatibility with Protools as everything else in the system runs better and I use Ableton Live 8 over Protools for music use anyway. I'm not complaining specifically that Digidesign was/is not ready with updates for all there Protools, I was well aware of the possible consequences. Just a simple question about how protools 8 is for film use...
Not to mention if I was running a Protools HD set up I wouldn't be on this forum worrying about LE's lack of video support standard...Protools HD looks like a dream.

[Xollop]

Docbop, I didn't see those other forums, so thanks for the heads up.

I guess to put this thing at rest, as it could go on indefinitely. YES, the most logical thing to do, in order to not jeopardize ProTools, would have been to stick with Tiger and continue working. The key thing here though, is that in MY case I'm talking about a personal computer, not part of a studio, and I'm certainly getting bugger-all new projects to work on. Again, 1st Gen MBP...mbox2pro, and as Protools is one out of many different video/sound softs I use, I prefer having all of those run better in the mean time. That's it. Had zero intention about this turning into a Snow Leopard thread, I get the feeling that people like to moan about it not working, and moan about the people moaning about it.