Avid Pro Tools to Pro Tools | Ultimate Upgrade

Avid Pro Tools to Pro Tools | Ultimate Upgrade

Avid Pro Tools | Ultimate (formerly Pro Tools | HD) comes with everything you need to take on more demanding music and immersive audio productions. With advanced recording, editing, and automation tools and full surround sound support, you can create large-scale mixes with up to 192 inputs and 256 simultaneous audio tracks using just the software. With the Avid Pro Tools to Pro Tools | Ultimate Upgrade you can upgrade your Pro Tools rig to a Pro Tools | Ultimate perpetual license with one year of support plan and software updates which includes access to all new releases and ExpertPlus support for one year. This also includes one year of access to the Avid Complete Plug-in Bundle and Pro Tools | MachineControl.

New in Version 2018.7

• Search to Access the Plug-ins and Busses You Need: Forget scrolling through lengthy menus to find the plug-in or bus you need. With tag-like search capabilities integrated into the Inserts, Sends, Inputs, and Outputs menus, you can simply start typing and Pro Tools will instantly display all matching items, enabling you to assign VIs, effects, and busses much faster than before.
• Speed Up Multi-item Menu Selections: Pro Tools now makes it easy to select multiple items in a menu in one fell swoop to boost your workflow speed. Control-click (Mac) or Start-click (Windows) on a track Insert, Send, or I/O mapping slot and select as many items as desired from the context menu. And quickly select multiple view, toolbar, window, and other preferences using checkboxes in pop-over menus.
• Edit Audio in the Groove: Don’t want everything to perfectly align to the beat when rearranging a session? You can now have Pro Tools maintain the relative grid position when copying, cutting, and pasting audio and MIDI clips and note selections. Not only does this expedite the editing process, it preserves the perfectly imperfect feel of unquantized music by retaining all correct offsets established in your timeline.

MIX AND AUTOMATE MULTICHANNEL AUDIO

From mono and stereo sound, to 5.1, 7.1, and immersive audio, Pro Tools | Ultimate provides the most efficient workflows and advanced automation to handle the largest music, soundtrack, Dolby Atmos, and Ambisonics productions. Plus, VCA Masters, Track Freeze, and a built-in surround panner accelerate the mixing process. You can even explore alternative versions of a mix with Project Revisions.

SOUND YOUR BEST

Pro Tools is renowned for its sound.. And you don’t have to nail a perfect performance to create that perfect take. Hone performances with powerful tools, including loop recording and track playlists, and comp together a flawless performance from multiple passes. And replace parts quickly with punch-recording workflows.

TAKE HANDS-ON CONTROL OF YOUR MIX

Experience the deepest level of integration when you pair Pro Tools with any EUCON-enabled control surface—including Pro Tools | S6, Pro Tools | S3, Pro Tools | Dock, Pro Tools | Control, and Artist Mix. Speed up recording, editing, and mixing tasks with access to tracks, plug-ins, and automation control right from the surface. You can even create custom keys to perform practically any Pro Tools function with a single button press.

COLLABORATE IN THE CLOUD

Imagine being able to work on a project with other Pro Tools users online—as if you’re all working together in the same studio. You can with Avid Cloud Collaboration. Work with up to 10 collaborators on a single project. Access projects from anywhere using any Pro Tools-equipped computer. Need more space? Get a premium cloud plan, starting at just $4.99/month.

FUEL YOUR CREATIVITY WITH PRO PLUG-INS

Polish mixes with over 60 AAX plug-ins. From high-quality virtual instruments, to classic effects, you have everything to get started shaping and enhancing your sound. If you’re a subscriber or have a 1-Year Software Updates + Support Plan, you also get access to every audio plug-in Avid offers in the Avid Complete Plug-in Bundle, plus Pro Tools | MachineControl. Want more? Shop the in-app Marketplace any time—no shoes, shirt, or pants required.

EDIT AUDIO WITH EASE

Pro Tools | Ultimate offers advanced editing tools, so you can reshape sounds, fix what’s funky, and edit tracks with ultimate flexibility and precision. Quickly trim clips, replace regions, create automatic fades, and batch process fades and clip names. Change tempo or timing on the fly with Elastic Time. You can even make bad notes sound pitch perfect with Elastic Pitch.

CONNECT AND SHARE YOUR WORK

Pro Tools makes it easy to find new collaborators and clients to expand your creative opportunities. Connect online with an extensive network of media professionals in the Avid Artist Community, where you can share your mixes and promote your skills.

BUILD UP YOUR SOUND

Fuel your creativity with a wide range of virtual instruments to create the parts you need. Lay down beats with the drum machine and sampler. Add bass, guitar, horns, strings, piano, and other accompaniments. And layer in a variety of other sounds to build up your song—from world instruments to sound effects.

GET INSPIRED AND BUILD UP TRACKS FAST

Looking for that perfect beat, orchestral hit, or sonic boom? Soundbase makes it a snap to browse and experiment with loops, samples, and sound effects from your libraries and hear how they sound in context with your tracks. To get you started, Pro Tools comes with 2 GB of high-quality loops to wake up mixes and give your projects that sonic edge.

WORK WITH MIDI AND NOTATION

Pro Tools works with all MIDI controllers and features a comprehensive MIDI Editor to create richer, more inspired performances—from tweaking notes, layering sounds, and switching up instruments, to adjusting dynamics, timing, and more. It also offers a Score Editor to create and edit music using notation. You can even export sessions to Sibelius for further finessing.

WORK WITH SOUND FOR PICTURE

Pro Tools | Ultimate enables you to play and edit HD video and Avid DNxHD sequences right in the Pro Tools timeline, so you can create and mix soundtracks in sync with the picture. Edit audio clips with timecode precision and position them perfectly in the scene. And clean up tracks and ensure every bit of dialog, music, and sound is heard using plug-ins and automation.

MIX IN DOLBY ATMOS

Dolby Atmos is the hottest thing in cinema and home theater, delivering bigger, more immersive audio experiences to viewers. Pro Tools | Ultimate offers the most efficient Dolby Atmos mixing workflows in the industry—with support for Atmos 7.1.2 audio stems, native object panning, advanced automation, ADM BWAV support, and deep Avid control surface integration.

EDIT AND MIX VR AUDIO

Produce immersive full-sphere surround sound mixes for virtual reality content—from start to finish—right in Pro Tools | Ultimate. Easily edit and mix audio in a 3D space with support for first-, second-, and third-order Ambisonics formats across your Pro Tools tracks and busses. Then output and deliver content to the required format for playback.

RECORD ADR AND FOLEY

With support for 64 tracks of video, Pro Tools makes it easy to record and sync voiceovers and dialog replacement to picture with perfect frame accuracy. Foley artists can watch a scene unfold as they re-create a sound effect to ensure they nail the nuances and timing. For Pro Tools | HDX users, you can expedite audio re-recording “in the box” with perfect click-free punch-ins using any punch mode.

DESIGN SOUNDS AND SOUNDSCAPES

Whether you’re creating sound that defines or defies reality, Pro Tools enables you to sculpt, shape, and transform audio quickly and build up scenes from scratch. Tweak and destroy sounds to create new ones with an army of plug-ins and Elastic Audio. Trim clips and nudge video frames for precision placement. And quickly adjust gain levels with Clip Gain.

APPLY REAL-TIME EFFECTS TO CLIPS

Tweak the sound of a clip without affecting the entire track. With Clip Effects, you can apply real-time EQ and dynamics to a single clip or clip group on your timeline, enabling you to have different settings across multiple clips on a track. This gives you more precise control when working with multiple clips of related audio, such as dialog or voiceovers.

CONNECT TEAMS WITH AVID NEXIS

Easily connect your audio team into the industry’s most efficient media production environment—MediaCentral—through Avid NEXIS storage. Access shared projects. Gain new collaborative audio workflows. And increase productivity, while maximizing content turnaround speed, by eliminating the time wasted moving files between systems.

COLLABORATE ON VIDEO PROJECTS

If you’re working independently, you can easily share your audio mixes with Media Composer editors by exporting tracks or an entire session as an AAF file. Pro Tools also supports XAVC Long GOP files and 1080p50 project types, enabling you to work your audio editing and mixing magic on projects that use these formats.