Published 18/12/07
Levels the field
Pro Convert is a translation application that converts DAW projects from one format to another — for example, from Nuendo to Pro Tools, from Soundscape to SADiE, or vice versa. Although this doesn’t sound terribly exciting, it means that users who employ different software platforms can move their projects between applications without having to go through multiple stages of manual export.
Pro Convert will translate audio files, region data, and pan and level fades. But if you have a source session with EQ and compressor plug-ins on each channel, for example, settings won’t be transferred to the destination format. However, in the future, one can speculate that such facilities could become available.
Pro Convert was acquired by SSL when the UK-based company bought out German software engineers Cui Bono Soft, just before the New York AES 2007 show, in late September 2007. Cui Bono Soft had been developing Pro Convert under the name EDL Convert for seven years, aiming at post-production and professional users.
Now SSL hope to further the development and bring it to a wider audience. Anthony David, SSL’s Managing Director, commented, “the Cui Bono guys had a vision of levelling the DAW playing field that we want to pick up and run with”.
SSL’s Pro Convert is expected to become available during the first quarter of 2008. Keep your eye on SSL’s web site for the latest news.
www.solid-state-logic.com
Pro Convert is a translation application that converts DAW projects from one format to another — for example, from Nuendo to Pro Tools, from Soundscape to SADiE, or vice versa. Although this doesn’t sound terribly exciting, it means that users who employ different software platforms can move their projects between applications without having to go through multiple stages of manual export.
Pro Convert will translate audio files, region data, and pan and level fades. But if you have a source session with EQ and compressor plug-ins on each channel, for example, settings won’t be transferred to the destination format. However, in the future, one can speculate that such facilities could become available.
Pro Convert was acquired by SSL when the UK-based company bought out German software engineers Cui Bono Soft, just before the New York AES 2007 show, in late September 2007. Cui Bono Soft had been developing Pro Convert under the name EDL Convert for seven years, aiming at post-production and professional users.
Now SSL hope to further the development and bring it to a wider audience. Anthony David, SSL’s Managing Director, commented, “the Cui Bono guys had a vision of levelling the DAW playing field that we want to pick up and run with”.
SSL’s Pro Convert is expected to become available during the first quarter of 2008. Keep your eye on SSL’s web site for the latest news.
www.solid-state-logic.com
