OnLocation requirements

[jaybirch]

Hi, I really love OnLocation/DV Rack and want to get a small laptop to use on the move to help set up shots and record to hard drive.

Does anyone have any feedback on what sort of spec I should be aiming at? would a macbook be able to record DVCpro in realtime (24fps)?

Thanks, Jay

[Derrick_SA]

at this point in time OnLocation is not available on the Mac platform (unless you buy Boot Camp and Windows) and create a dual boot system.

But on the windows platform, onlocation is not too picky (with more recent hardware ofcourse), the important thing is HDD speed, so it's a good Idea to have a 7200rpm external drive.

I've got a Toshiba laptop with 1.5GB RAM, T2400 1.83Ghz Centrino Duo CPU, and OnLocation does just fine.

- Derrick

- Derrick

[jaybirch]

Thanks Derrick... I thought I read that the intel macs could run OnLocation without a dual boot, but i'm not certain.

Do you have any experience with SDD harddrives, would that be the fastest option?

Thanks, Jay

[Brian@202020]

I'm wondering if anyone knows if On Location will record to a Mac formatted harddrive? If so will I need MacDrive installed?

[GageFX]

Hey Jay, I haven't run DVRack in almost two years, but at the time I was just running it on a cheap $800 HP 14" laptop. I specify 14" to say that it was a lightweight/compact model and not a "power" notebook. Just whatever a typical AMD processor was 2 years ago. I also think I only had 1G RAM in it. I recorded to the internal drive, an external USB2, and an external Firewire, all without any problems. If you get any new laptop it should work just fine. I will add, though, that it was an XP laptop and I dont know if Vista's memory hungry OS will affect performance. I imagine it would work fine.

And DVRack is a dream. If it wasnt such a pain to be tethered to a computer, I would have shot to DVRack everytime I shot.