The First Review of Compositor's Toolkit
Posted by Dave Hebel on Friday, January 23, 2009

This morning I woke up at 6:30AM and as I always do I opened my laptop to check email. I was surprised to find a Google News Alert for "Digital Juice". It turned out to be the very first review for our Compositor's Toolkit over at Broadcast Newsroom. The review is very positive about the product but what struck me the most was how much the reviewer also "got" the Juicer. As I spend about 30% of my day working with our applications and Juicer team it put a smile on my face for the entire morning to see someone outside the company understand that we have something very special in the Juicer and that it's something other companies don't offer.

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THANK YOU SEAN! I love the tracker, I can't wait to start using it
Posted on 4/13/2009 by vm san

The review was great Dave. This should grab a few more clients down the river of Digital Juice. All of you put out such a good product and should have had a lot more reviews this golden..From the Swipes to ETK's and throughout the purchase process and back to customer service. It is a deep well thought out system that makes DJ such an asset to the graphics community as a whole and I for one believe many other companies could benefit from this model. Keep up the stellar work and congradulations!
Gregg Collins, BDI
Posted on 2/1/2009 by Gregg Collins, BDI

I agree with Mike Warren! Very good point indeed about marking your favorites on the Juicer. I've often wished for the same thing. It usually takes me 30 minutes to find the same ole favorites. Surely it's an easy update for the brilliant guys at Juice!
Posted on 1/30/2009 by Josh Sherwood, Forest Productions

The Juicer... YES! Can't say enough about its virtues. But please, if i could just dream of a little more, like one big thing thats missing, that I'm always wishing it could do... especially when searching through all my Stack Traxxs of music and volumes of Sound FX for those few good pieces I remembered hearing. How many times I wished I was able to check off or somehow have marked "my favorites", so I could easily return to just those, instead of having to each time plow through so many pieces all over again before finding those few good ones that I had no way of marking. How many hours and hours of time would have been saved. But then... a guy can dream can't he?
Posted on 1/25/2009 by Mike Warren

I am so thankful that I tool advantage of the half off pricing on the last day! Just got the toolkit yesterday and already am using it, great stuff! Keep it coming, and keep offering special deals on pricing!

Thanks
Posted on 1/24/2009 by Robbie Robfogel, Ocean Visual FX

I like many others could really use Compositor's Toolkit. When I got the digital juice magazine in the mail a few months ago when they were talking about it, I read it several times and I even read it the other day. Thanks for the magazine Digital Juice.

I'm aware that it is a great deal for $500. But, I like several of the DJ buyers cannot afford it since it is way out of our budget. For now I have to resort to getting effects from other places. If you look around you can get HD stock footage for only a few bucks.

I own several Digital Juice products like the Sound FX library to the Jump Backs to etc. etc. Digital Juice has the best footage hands. Therefore, I am hoping that you guys can have a one day sale on it for a price those of us can afford to get or to separate the clips.

Posted on 1/23/2009 by KAI-HSUAN JOHNSON

I can tell you that every time I deliver a DVD to a client it has DJ products in use somewhere and they love it. A custom just for them product is what makes the difference and helps when it is time to pay the bill. Don't listen to others and believe that simple cuts & dissolves are the only way to go. Know your customers and what they want. Add the punch when you need it!
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Harold B.

I put all my Digital Juice on an external drive as disk images and then use Daemon Tools to mount the image when I need it. I don't have to carry dozens of disks with me or risk scratching them. Great resources.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Lee Davidson

Congrats on the good review. I just Dugg the article if anyone cares to up the numbers. Good product, great price point. I picked it up even before they offered the Chroma Pop with it!

I hope this generates some good press for you guys - you're doing a great job with the products.

Tom
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Tom Giarrosso, SCTV-17

I purchased the Compositor's Toolkit (as well as Zax Werks "Pro-Animator", the now non existent "Video Traxx" volumes 1-3, and a load of Jump Backs, Swipes & Theme Kits), but hadn't looked into the Juicer. I didn't understand why I'd need it until I read this article. I'm downloading it now & will use it often. My editing computer is offline, so I thought I couldn't use it. But now I know I can load the previews from the disks into the Juicer and import it in whatever format I want. I use a PC with Windows and the clips are in Quick Time. I can use Quick Time but now can import it as a Windows AVI. AWESOME. THANKS DIGITAL JUICE!
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Michael Bey, MB3 Productions, Inc

That was a great article that plugged CTK, Juicer and Chroma Pop. I can tell you that I am glad I picked up the CTK when it first came out, even though before it came out I didn't think I would have a use for it. I have already used it once and I'm looking at using it again on a wedding video I'm working on.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Marc Percy (aka mptribe from the DJ Forums)

I also don't have the funds to buy this either. It's either Toolkit or Mortgage, Gasoline & Electricity. Sorry, but roof over my head takes precedence. Congrats on the great review!
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Crystal E.

WOW - superb review. I will never get $500 together for this product. I want to and I would love to, but that is a large check from the church. Even larger considering I would only use it to 'play'. Maybe one day I will be a little wealthier and I can put it on a CC.


Posted on 1/23/2009 by Steve Dubrava, Perfect 10 Satellite Dist

Congratulations on the review!

The article is an excellent review of both the Compositor's Toolkit and the Juicer and well-deserved! The underlying part which surprises me the most is how come it took so long for people to recognize these products and how nicely they make your editing world better?! The Juicer has for some time now been a regular part of our production flow. It's an industry time-saver!

The Juicer icon on our desktop is as important as the FCP and AE icons. Why waste time and money with other expensive and inflated products, when you can repeatedly re-scale and render whatever formats in one desktop application? Time is money. Now that's progress!

Congratulations Digital Juice!

Ross
Well-Brewed Media Productions, LLC.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Ross B.

Gary, at this time Juicer does not allow copying to the HD. DJ Fonts, "coming soon" will be the first product that allows and even recommends this.
We are working toward a plug-in option in the future to allow saving to Hard Drive.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by David Hebel, Digital Juice

McCauliffe criticizes the not having the toolkit on a hard drive vs having to load 26 discs, as required. I have often wondered if we could put our DJ discs on a big hard drive ourselves and save all the disc loading. Would the Juicer recognize the disc and render it OK that way?

Of course, if this were possible, you could do it yourselves for selected groups of discs and sell those as hard drives - probably USB 2.0.

Is any of this possible?

Gary Eickmeier
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Gary Eickmeier, Hollyworld

I'm a big fan. Here are the first two projects I did with CT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpG0xc_FKS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-y-XbXvm7E

The reviewer is correct in saying that this is the best value on the market for compositing elements. Simply outstanding. Thanks again, DJ, for putting the tools in the hands of the people who need them most.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Stan Arthur, Stetson University

I consider our company of the smart ones to own the compositor's toolkit (along with a ton of other DJ products). I'm just bummed that I didn't drag my feet for so long that I didn't score a free chroma pop with it. This is a an extremely handy collection and worth every penny of it's full price.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Scott Morrow, KTRK TV

Awesome and congrats! I have the Juicer open pretty much all the time. It is the easiest way to get great media elements into my projects. Keep up the great work.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Lee Higginbottom

Good review and well deserved and I like to see the other companies keep sweating they need a new out look. Digatal Juice is and will always be number 1 in my book. I see alot of commercials using DJ products lately and it just goes to show who is the best. Digital Juice.

Posted on 1/23/2009 by Patrick Benesch

I wish I had funds to buy it.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by De Andre Gatlin, gatlinproduction

Talk about a glowing recommendation from such a respectable source. You should be proud of what you have accomplished and the value you provide your customer base. I've never understood how some of the other companies stay in business, charging prices magnitudes higher than your products. Yet some sources push the other company products religiously. It never ceases to boggle the mind.

Posted on 1/23/2009 by Jim Brumbach, Event Depot

Good review and well deserved.
Posted on 1/23/2009 by Chris Davis, Famous Davis Productions