Overview: Introducing SDL Trados Studio

SDL Trados Studio enables organizations to effectively manage all aspects of translation projects. Studio incorporates project management and computer-aided translation (CAT) tools for use by project managers, translators, editors, proofreaders and other language professionals. These are presented in easy-to-use views which you can arrange to look and work the way that you prefer.

The Studio Views

Studio functionality is accessed through these views:

View	Description
Welcome	This is where you can get started with quick links that enable you to access frequently used functions. It also enables you to check out the latest SDL Trados Studio videos, Help resources and information on the latest product releases. From here you can: ·         Create a new project ·         Start translating a single document ·         Open packages and GroupShare projects ·         Access video tours and tutorials, Help Resources and SDL Trados News ·         Define default project settings ·         Upgrade translation memories ·         Align translated documents in the SDL Alignment Tool ·         Create AutoSuggest dictionaries ·         Open SDL MultiTerm where you can create and maintain your termbases ·         Localize software in SDL Passolo ·         Show the list of keyboard shortcuts Selecting any of these commands will switch you to the appropriate view in Studio or open another application where you can perform the action.
Projects	This is where translation projects are created, tracked and managed. You can select a project to view detailed project and file information and track project and file status.
Files	This is where manage files and open files for translation. From here you can: ·         Open files for translation ·         Open files for review ·         Perform batch processing on files You can also view word counts and translation progress for these files.
Reports	This is where you view project reports. The reports provide detailed translation analysis figures which feed directly into the project planning and budgeting process.
Editor	This is where documents are translated and reviewed. Studio helps you to translate efficiently and consistently by leveraging existing translations from translation memories. Studio also captures new translations as they are created and can either add these to an existing translation memory or create a new one. The translation environment is bilingual; source language segments and the segment translations are displayed side-by-side in a single editor screen. Text is displayed in WYSIWYG format so you can easily see whether formatting has been applied correctly. You can apply formatting, insert tags and special characters from the Ribbon tabs and you can preview the translation in real-time in the Preview window.
Translation Memories	This is where you create, import and manage translation memories. You can also access the Alignment Tool from this view. The Alignment Tool matches the segments in the legacy source language documents with the translated segments in the target language documents to determine which sentence pairs belong together. It then adds these pairs to your specified translation memory.
Alignment	This is where you review and correct the results of the alignment that Studio performs automatically when you align existing translated documents. This view is only available when you open an alignment result file (*.sdlalign).