PT11 and PT11 HD differences

[Fooks]

I watched the Q&A, I am not a hater by any means and I think the upgrade pricing is fine. They put some info on the site about PT11 (not a lot, but some) there is the air user blog pod cast, and like I said...the podcast, they all answer the same questions. 64 bit, redesigned audio engine, pricing, no more CPTK, metering, dynamic metering, track freeze, speed bouncing...all great features.

Now when they talk about differences between versions (native vs HD) they only mention the customizable metering and disc cache only available in HD, well....? What other differences? What are the track count differences? Does HD have 16 trillion tracks available, and the native have 20? Does native have any kind of surround capabilities? Maybe 5.1 in native and up to 7.1 in HD. How many video tracks in native, etc. Not things that will make me want to leave the pro tools platform by any means, but just things that would be nice to know is all.

[Emcha_audio]

Originally Posted by Fooks

I watched the Q&A, I am not a hater by any means and I think the upgrade pricing is fine. They put some info on the site about PT11 (not a lot, but some) there is the air user blog pod cast, and like I said...the podcast, they all answer the same questions. 64 bit, redesigned audio engine, pricing, no more CPTK, metering, dynamic metering, track freeze, speed bouncing...all great features.

Now when they talk about differences between versions (native vs HD) they only mention the customizable metering and disc cache only available in HD, well....? What other differences? What are the track count differences? Does HD have 16 trillion tracks available, and the native have 20? Does native have any kind of surround capabilities? Maybe 5.1 in native and up to 7.1 in HD. How many video tracks in native, etc. Not things that will make me want to leave the pro tools platform by any means, but just things that would be nice to know is all.

A comparison chart should be in the works. Stay tuned.

[nst7]

From what has been said and shown, the feature differences will be virtually identical to PT10.

You can look at the existing comparison chart and it will probably be identical:

http://www.avid.com/US/products/Pro-...atures#Compare


With the new PT11 features, it's already been established that regular and HD will get the improved metering, but only HD gets the 17 different metering types, and the gain reduction metering.

Extended Disk Cache remains HD only, just like in PT10.

The built in Satellite Link and Video Satellite LE functions remain HD only, because they actually require HD hardware to work (just like before).


So the main differences are surround mixing (HD only), higher track count (HD 256 mono, regular Protools 96 mono or stereo), input monitoring, and some automation features.

[propower]

I wonder if 64bit and the improved AAE are enough to offset the current Disc Cache? The cache was one of the main reasons I stuck with HD10 instead of non-HD. With 64bit - shouldn't sessions just load to RAM??

[nigelpry]

nst7, thanks for the timely reminder about the PT10 comparison chart, i'd forgotten about that.

Wow, when you read through that, the list of things that will be lost in PT11 if we don't go the CPTK upgrade path is even more scary ;-(