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Designed with user experience at its core, Trados Studio 2019 transforms how new users get up and running, helps experienced users make the most of the powerful features, ensures new levels of productivity for the whole translation team and helps in delivering unrivalled quality in your translations.
Used by over 250,000 professionals worldwide, when you choose Studio, you become part of the largest translation community in the world.
What’s New in Trados Studio 2019:
Get started easily with on-demand tips and tutorial videos: From the moment you open Trados Studio 2019, you are guided through each area with tips, tricks and tutorial videos showing you how to create and manage projects, use the translation editor, and get the most out of your translation assets.
Instant access to every feature and setting with 'Tell Me' technology: Did you know Studio 2019 has over 700 commands and 1300 settings, that’s a lot of functionality. Our new ‘Tell Me’ technology helps you access a setting 4x faster. Tell Studio exactly what you need to know: simply type in a word or phrase, and Studio 2019 intelligently suggests commands, options and settings that you might want to access.
Effortless project creation and simple project updates: Create projects up to 28% faster with the brand new one step project creation wizard. Adding and updating specific files mid-project is also now a much quicker and pain-free process – up to 82% faster than Studio 2017.
Enhanced quality checks: Studio 2019 introduces the option to customize settings for each language, increasing your flexibility and control over quality assurance (QA) checks. When you run a QA check in Studio 2019, the source and target segment are now included in the report, so you can see at a glance exactly where each error occurs.
Improved translation memory (TM) management: With Studio 2019, you have more control over the Translation Memories Editor: you can now view up to 1000 translation units per page, navigate to a specific page or directly to the last page of a TM, meaning it’s quicker and easier to sort through your TMs, change and update translations
MultiTerm 2019: Don’t forget that MultiTerm is included in your purchase of Trados Studio 2019 - Using correct terminology is crucial to ensuring high quality, consistent translations.
MultiTerm 2019: Don’t forget that MultiTerm is included in your purchase of Trados Studio 2019 - Using correct terminology is crucial to ensuring high quality, consistent translations.
Additional file types supported: Brand new support for the Microsoft Visio file type is available with Studio 2019, and other file formats have been updated to match the latest third-party (e.g. Microsoft) releases.
Trados Studio 2019 Freelance - Ideal for freelance translators (€695/$845/£595/¥100,000)
File formats
Work with any file format and any project. View list.
License type
Perpetual
System requirements
Operating system
Windows
System requirements
As a minimum requirement, we recommend an Intel or compatible CPU-based computer with 8 GB RAM and a screen resolution of 1024x768.For optimum performance, we recommend a 64-bit operating system, 16 G
Compatibility
Open standard file formats XLIFF, TMX, TBX & OLIF, interoperability with other CAT tools and an app store making it possible to integrate with any workflow.
Broadly used by my clients, nice features, maybe too many of them
Review by
Sara Massons . I use it for most of my projects when I can chose (I regularly use about 10 different CAT tools depending on the client's expectations).
Pros
The TM management is the best I've ever seen, the word base feature is really great and time saving. The overall UI is rather confortable and it is recognized by many companies and LSPs. It is safe to use and protects my data (and that of my clients).
It has great project management features (possibly too much for a freelance alone).
Great support team rather available and responsive.
Cons
I had a bit of a hard time starting with it and I'm still lost with certain features (and I'm rather tech savvy).
It does not work under Open Source OS and it takes most of my computer ressources so it can be a bit slow sometimes.
I did not manage to make the verifika plug-in work and now I repeatedly have an error message about it.
I don't use all the features (and don't need to) and I can't remove them to save my memory or CPU.
4 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?
Tool has improved over the years
Review by
Serge Wolff . This tool has greatly improved over the years until Trados 2019, I don't know about the next versions. I like the monthly webinars. They are user focused and have become more user friendly.
4 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?
Can't go wrong with this, but do consider solid alternatives like MemoQ, CafeTran or Wordfast
Review by
Artem Vakhitov . I've been using Trados in its various incarnations ever since getting my first agency client. Currently, I use SDL Trados Studio 2019. Studio is a seasoned, professional CAT tool that probably has most features you'd ever want from this type of software. Can't say it's perfect, but it's sufficiently reliable and feature-complete for me, otherwise I would have chosen something else long ago.
I haven't evaluated any big-name competitors like MemoQ or Wordfast seriously, but you may want to do that if you haven't yet invested in a professional CAT program. From what I've read, I believe they are more or less functionally equivalent to Studio. CafeTran is another alternative that may be worth your attention. That said, I believe Studio is never a wrong choice. Note that some of these alternatives can have time-limited licenses (thinly veiled in case of CafeTran).
I've also tried several open-source alternatives, including the most recent ones, but they all seem to lack some important features, making me come back to the trusty Studio. Examples of those features are regexp-based segment filtering, source editing, and in-segment formatting (like bold, italic, or text highlight). Oh, and the excellent WinAlign aligner that was IIRC bundled with a previous Studio version and is still available to me. The only open-source CAT tool that I've ever used for serious work is OmegaT. Despite lacking the above-mentioned features and having a suboptimal UI paradigm, it's really good at the things it can do.
Things I don't like in Studio:
- In rare circumstances, it refuses to save the target due to bogus tag errors, and you have to resort to various workarounds including file splitting and retranslating as well as manual re-work. The best way to prevent this is try to save the target right after you've prepared the source. If this fails, you'll have more time to fix the problem.
- It can be slow at times. Non-essential operations like creating a preview—which is easily triggered by an obscure key combination—can't be canceled instantly. When a segment filter is on, and you've inadvertently crossed the segment boundary with your selection, you're in for a minutes-long useless wait.
- It insists on having its own file structure. You can make different choices but when you want a simple date-based structure within a client folder where all files belonging to the specific project are stored in a single folder, you have to make those choices in Studio every single time. Project templates don't seem to be suited for that use case.
- I still find the ribbon interface a downgrade, like with MS Office. It hasn't made me more productive—on the contrary.
- The free human support is almost non-existent.
- The activation and deactivation thing. It's needlessly complex and can make you waste time in case of a PC disaster. This is basically the reason I try open-source solutions periodically. One possible way to make that less likely is virtualization where you activate all software you need and then cut Internet access to the guest VM. This requires more RAM and processing power and assumes the software in question doesn't require you to let it phone home from time to time. I believe Studio doesn't.
That's it—I hope this entry can be useful for someone in the market for a CAT tool.
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