Studio Suite 8 – Major new release for leading Studio Management Software
Studio Suite 8 is designed to serve the needs of all kinds of
media production: Audio, Video, Pre-Production, Production,
Post-Production, Animation, Graphics, Film, TV, Radio, DVD,
Internet, Games, Duplication, Mastering, Rentals, etc. Studio Suite
8 manages everything - schedules, contacts, communications,
projects, inventories, libraries, labels, invoices and more. It is
user-customizable, relational, and networkable across Mac/PC
platforms.
Studio Suite 8 has over 50 major new features and hundreds of
smaller features – a sampling includes:
• Slick modern interface
– simplified, cleaner, brighter, more uniform.
• Dramatically improved
window management
• Simplified file
structure – now 8 files instead of 40.
• Dashboard overview on
Main Menu to see daily details – Projects, Sessions,
Tasks, Messages, Callbacks, etc.
• Back button
functionality
• Drag and Drop Calendar
Events
• Mouse-over Calendar
Events for Project details
• Task Management per
Employee, Project, and Event, with loadable Task Groups.
• 12 levels of role-based
security and over 100 assignable permissions.
• Record-level security in
critical modules
• Integrated barcodes
– no more 3rd party fonts
• Live XML connection to
QuickBooks (PC version only).
• Contacts module now
includes Group Management
• Email directly from
Studio Suite, individually, or to Contact Groups.
• Instant link to eBay in
the Equipment module to see current value.
• Built in package
tracking for shipments
• Titles module now tracks
Publishing details, submissions, copyrights, licenses, etc.
• Creates hierarchical,
expanding/collapsing "packages" for Calendar
booking and Project management, now featuring “also
book” items.
• Unlimited Event
Statuses, Categories, and Colors per event.
• Tracks Budget and Actual
charges and expenses (and the difference), as well as Profit/Loss
per project and per line item.
• Attaches any external,
digital file (Avid, ProTools, Word, Photoshop, etc.) to a Studio
Suite Project, Contact, Library, or Title, enabling the User to
completely document and interconnect all aspects of a Project in
one place.
• FASTER!
"I'm so proud of this release," says
Joel Stoner, AlterMedia president and designer of Studio Suite.
"We've worked long and hard to build a robust,
modern platform that accommodates the needs of all types of media
production. Studio Suite 8 provides studios with organization and
management structure right out of the box.”
Studio Suite is used by work-at-home editors, engineers,
producers, and composers; yet it’s also the anchor of
operations at facilities ranging from small boutique production
studios to major corporations such as Sony, Warner Bros., Fox, BET,
and the U.S. Government. With thousands of Users in 40 countries,
Studio Suite leads as the industry standard in studio and project
management software, and is the top choice of studios worldwide.
Pricing is $749 for the first License, and $449 for each
additional networked workstation. Upgrade prices for current Users
are $479 for the initial upgrade and $299 per additional
workstation. These prices include FileMaker Pro 8.5, which is
required. Bundles including FileMaker Server are also available.
More details, and a video demo, are available from
www.studiosuite.com.
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Editorial Contact: Joel Stoner
AlterMedia, Inc
joel@studiosuite.com
http://www.studiosuite.com
800.450.5740 (US and Canada)
818.752.3900 (Los Angeles)
Studio Suite - The New Standard
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