Pro Tools 12.8 Is Now Available

Avid Delivers Native Dolby Atmos Mixing for Pro Tools | HD for Creating Immersive Audio Experiences 

Pro Tools update accelerates mixing for the leading immersive audio format and improves collaboration across creative teams with high-performance support for Avid NEXIS

BURLINGTON, MA, June 26, 2017 – Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID), a leading global media technology provider for the creation, distribution and monetization of media assets for global media organizations, enterprise users and individual creative professionals, today announced the release of Avid Pro Tools® 12.8. Used by award-winning artists and the largest media companies in the world, the industry-leading professional digital audio workstation offers a plethora of new features, including native Dolby Atmos® mixing and support for Avid NEXIS® for Pro Tools | HD™, and Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools | First.

Comprehensive mixing with bolstered storage support

With media professionals aiming to deliver the highest quality, most engaging content, more theatrical releases, television shows, video games, and music mixes are relying on the Dolby Atmos immersive audio format. Until now, mixing in Dolby Atmos required additional software plug-ins and complex routing workflows to accommodate the popular format. Through a close partnership between Avid and Dolby, Pro Tools | HD now features an inclusive suite of Dolby Atmos workflows, enabling audio post professionals to work more fluidly in the multi-channel and object-based audio format.

New features include built-in Dolby Atmos panning, support for 7.1.2 stems, deep Avid pro mixing control surface integration, advanced automation with the Dolby Rendering and Mastering Unit (RMU), and more. As a key component of the MediaCentral® Platform—the industry’s most open, tightly integrated and efficient media platform—Pro Tools delivers the most integrated end-to-end workflow in the industry to create, distribute and optimize media.

Support for Avid NEXIS shared storage eliminates the time wasted moving files between systems, resulting in faster turnarounds and increased productivity.

Make music for free with anyone, anywhere

Updates to Pro Tools | First, the popular freemium audio workstation based on the industry-standard audio production tools, now includes:  

• Revolutionary Avid Cloud Collaboration, empowering everyone to connect and easily make music and soundtracks together over the internet, giving users the freedom to record, edit, and mix projects with others as if they were all together in the same studio — no matter where they are in the world.
• Integration with Soundbase, enabling users to search for fresh sounds and instantly hear how they fit into any track or project. Plus, with a 500 MB loop library created by industry-leading producers and sound designers, it’s even easier to produce professional-quality music with ease.
• Track Freeze, allowing users to quickly freeze or unfreeze all plug-ins on a track—or just up to a certain insert—to free up processing power.

Availability

Pro Tools 12.8 is now available. For more information, visit www.avid.com.

About Dolby Atmos

Dolby Atmos delivers moving audio—sound that can be precisely placed and moved anywhere in three-dimensional space, including overhead. It brings entertainment alive all around the audience in a powerfully immersive and emotive experience. To learn more about Dolby Atmos, visit www.dolby.com/Atmos.

About Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) creates audio, video, and voice technologies that transform entertainment and communications in mobile devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For more than 50 years, sight and sound experiences have become more vibrant, clear, and powerful in Dolby. For more information, please visit www.dolby.com.

About Avid

Through Avid Everywhere™, Avid delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community uses Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature films, to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the most flexible deployment and pricing options, Avid’s industry-leading solutions include Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, Avid NEXIS®, Interplay®, ProSet™ and RealSet™, Maestro™, PlayMaker™, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube,  LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.

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