Despite promises to the contrary, Avid still haven’t released the free Pro Tools 10 trail despite this being an offer to help convince users that the upgrade is worth while. The latest is that this has been pushed back to Mid December.
Then there is the DV Tool Kit and Complete Production Toolkit upgrade saga. Again despite DTS mark 2 promising back on Oct 21st…..
The DVTK to CPTK upgrade will be available again in the next week or two on the Avid Store. I think Max didn’t get the late breaking info about it still being offered – it was pulled temporarily for technical reasons mostly related to setting up the process for surrendering the old license and to remove 3rd party content from the ‘package’.
It still hasn’t appeared and there has been no formal response from Avid since then on the issue. This is real bad news for Pro Tools For Media users with these products.
Come on Avid, you are not helping reclaim your reputation amongst users with delays and silence about issues like this
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December 5, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Yeah, this is actually holding back our purchase of PT10 all together. If we can’t get an upgrade to CPTK to enable Extented Disk Cache, we’ll stay at PT9.
C,mon Avid! Jeez!
Simon
January 19, 2012 at 10:39 am
So I’ve just been checking to see if they’ve made the DV Toolkit upgrade available again yet and it seems that Avid have now decided to can the idea of bringing back the upgrade option altogether (see DUC link below):
http://duc.avid.com/showpost.php?p=1890409&postcount=8
That’s quite a bummer to have paid all that money for the DV Toolkit and then not be given any sort of grace period to allow you to upgrade before they discontinue the upgrade!
So I guess the cheapest options are to buy a used Pro Tools 10 ilok license (which will give you all the Complete Production Toolkit options on a non HD setup) or to go to the ideascale and show you support for bringing back the upgrade (link below).
http://protools.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Bring-back-DV-Toolkit-to-CPTK-upgrade-path-for-limited-time/89333-3779
January 19, 2012 at 11:27 am
Hi Leaf,
This is a bummer. However Pro Tools 9 or Pro Tools 10 will give you the access to all the features that DV Toolkit unlocked in PT 8LE. What Complete Production Toolkit does is unlock the increased track counts etc which will make Pro Tools 10 much closer to PT 10HD.
Mike.