Going HD Native for Post

[MIKEROPHONICS]

No TC plugs are being ported to aax. It was in an avid aax page somewhere. Shame as love my unwrap.

Who records with native? I record loads of commentary and some ADR .... Need to know that latency is low enough. Obviously won't be able to track with my plugs as it is not tdm or hdx, but can live without that as long as delay on punch in is acceptable.

[lafilmsound]

Originally Posted by T_S_Harris

I am looking to get some feed back from people on Upgrading from a HD 2 to HD native for Post work Mainly mixing Indie film and doing ADR work. Just would like to know your experience om it.

Tim

I have been using PTs native with an RME QS-8 since protools 9 was released. I work with all reels in one session, including 2 prior of each reel, have all the tracks maxed out, record 16 5.1 or 5.0 stems to bring to the stage for temp dubs, and it has been flawless. We record ADR on a stage with an HD system so i cant answer that question sorry. The huge limitation of protools is still the track count. I have to have my BG's and Foley in separate sessions because of track count limitations, which appears will never be corrected in protools. 10,000 tracks would suite me just fine :)

[Reckless Erik]

Mike,
I record a lot of VO on just an Mbox. Latency is not an issue unless you overload your record track with plugins.
Regards, Nick

[paranerd]

Originally Posted by MIKEROPHONICS

No TC plugs are being ported to aax. It was in an avid aax page somewhere. Shame as love my unwrap.

Who records with native? I record loads of commentary and some ADR .... Need to know that latency is low enough. Obviously won't be able to track with my plugs as it is not tdm or hdx, but can live without that as long as delay on punch in is acceptable.

I recently did an ADR session. PT 9.0.3, HD Native with 96io on a MacPro 2x2.26 Ghz Quad with 6 GB of RAM.

Once you put the buffer to 32, there's no noticeable latency when recording. It all went swimmingly.

[lafilmsound]

Originally Posted by Reckless Erik

Mike,
I record a lot of VO on just an Mbox. Latency is not an issue unless you overload your record track with plugins.
Regards, Nick

VO or ADR? VO is not sync so latency would be a non issue

[hitp]

When we switched 8 of our smaller systems to HD Native from HD2, we had latency problems when doing ADR but later discovered we had the system set for at the maximum HW buffer size, dropping it down to a setting of 64 cured everything. Surprised how responsive it is even loaded with plugins and 40+ tracks. Only when you start piling on the memory hogs that you need to up HW Buffer for mixing.

6 months into it we really have no major problems, except we find PT9 no longer responds to Jam Sync when laying back to videos with spotty time code. But that is for another thread.

Seriously thinking to upgrade all the rooms for PT10 even if the upgrade costs $1K per room. Native +PT10 seems sufficient so far for most our needs. I think we can stay this way till PT11 finally comes to town.

[EarHole]

Originally Posted by lafilmsound

VO or ADR? VO is not sync so latency would be a non issue

It's an issue if the talent's headphones are delayed.

[jeremiahmoore]

hitp: Are you monitoring through the protools mixer? (as most of us HD folks do)?

Not sure how many milliseconds it takes to start sounding weird, but it's not too many.

Is HD-Native under or over that point?

-jeremiah

[sounddroid]

If you guys love UnWrap, check out Waves UM226 plugin - I actually like it better!

[MIKEROPHONICS]

Thanks but no thanks. I dislike Waves for their business practices, even more now for their "sitting on the fence" with aax development. Rant over. Carry on.