Good morning Christopher:
I am sure others will speak to this, and your posting gives Jerry a great
opportunity to bring us up to date on this, if he is still here grin.
One can use pro tools very well indeed using a mac, but not with
voiceover.
It is interesting to note that the level at which pro tools is accessible
is one of the more stable, but it requires os 9.22, outspoken, and that
early edition of pro tools in the 5 family.
There has been some effort to bring digidesign up to speed regarding the
need to make the program work with voiceover, but as of December I
believe? no decision has been made.
I may be wrong here, but at least no posting has come to the blind pro
tools users list.
It is up to the person involved if he wants to take the steps needful to
get the hardware and software for the functional version.
I consider it to have been a great investment, but pro tools remains the
industry standard in public radio, and so I use it for my work.
even still, given what I read from my associates using recent editions of
pro tools, I would likely not change mine once voiceover does work.
This has nothing to do with vision as very few of those with whom I work
are using adaptive tools. It has to do with more recent editions having
more bugs and the like.
I prefer to stay stable, especially given the investment involved.
The person asking may want to contact Jerry and learn if the investment is
worth it for him too. It depends on his production goals and needs.
As a sidenote, there is some speculation that logic may become voiceover
accessible first. While this may be true, if the person asking works in
radio broadcasting at least at the professional level, they should know
that although logic is a fine musicians tool, it is a poor one for the
unique requirements of producing material for the spectrum / satellite
radio marketplace. This is in general again ha vining nothing to do with
any vision factor.
Everything above is my own opinion. The person should make any decisions
he will make based on his personal editing requirements, nothing else.
Hope this is helpful,
Karen
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Christopher Hallsworth wrote:
Can anyone confirm that ProTools is accessible or not please? This is
for a gentleman who's written to me privately. Thanks.
Christopher Hallsworth
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Skype name chrishallsworth7266
----- Original message -----
From: "David Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christopher Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:11:06 -0500
Subject: is pro tools accessible using a mac with the current os?
Hi, how are you? Do you know whether the we can use pro tools on a mac
with the most recent os? To my knowledge, this can't be done. You have
to use version 9.22 os and an older version of pro tools. i'm not sure
whether the patch editor librarian programs would work but as far as i'm
aware of we can't use pro tools. There are some other programs that
might hold promise, but i didn't get a chance to go through those
programs since they were demo programs and i didn't hear a lot in the
way of shortcut keys to access different things.
