Anyone Interested in a DV Rack like app for MAC?

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bena

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I wanted to see how much interest there is for a program on the mac that does what DV rack for the PC does but supports HD and the HVX200?

Im interested to know what your priorities for features would be?

Direct to Disk recording 720P modes
Scopes
Focus Assist
Depth of Field flip correction
Direct to Disk recording HD 1080 24/30P

would $500 be a reasonable price if the program did all of the above?

this has nothing to do with Serious Magic. I am looking to see if there is enough interest to start development on a Mac version, with a different name of course.

Thanks for the feedback.
 
I'm sure you'd find a lot of interest. I'd be into it. But, I think Redrock already has it near-completion.
 
I don't know if redrock's supports HD, does it?

I'd definitely be interested. Far and away the things I use most on DV rack are:
1) pixel-accurate monitor for focus, and zooming into the monitor, and full-screen monitor capability
2) digital disk recorder, especially with the split-screen function; gotta have that split-screen capability to match a recorded shot against the live feed.
3) live waveform

If it did disk recording in all modes (DV50, 720p, 1080, and DV) that would be superb. And it should be a universal binary app so it runs on the new macbook and the old powerbooks.

It should record its files to QT MOVs that are directly editable by FCP. Should also use a huge RAM cache to buffer the frames during recording, to prevent there ever being a dropped frame on recording -- we need to be able to inherently trust it no matter what. And it should automatically strip out duplicate frames from 720p variable-frame-rate stuff, so if you're shooting 720/24p mode, it should record only the 24fps to the QT file.

It would also be stellar if it could record MXF files too -- so you'd have the choice of recording MXF or QT. I'd like to be able to use it to capture in the field, but capture MXF files that I could then edit on an Edius or Avid system.

And if you had it ready right now, yes I'd paypal $495 today for it.
 
Hmm, the Redrock supports HDV (no mention of any other HD flavors) and apparently only monitors in SD regardless. Damn.

So, yeah, add one more interested party. Like Barry, I'd buy right away if it delivered on those specs.
 
bena said:
Thanks for the feedback.
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If you made it work on both platforms it would be best... especially if you offer both versions for the one price. Hopefully Mac going Intel would make designing for both platforms easier.
 
Yeah, I'm in too. Serious Magic is the only company that's ever made me want to buy a PC (sorry, for the dig). $500 sound great!
 
I'd be happy if anyone supported HD on PC or Mac, Redrock or Serious Magic. I don't care who does it on what machine, just as long as it gets done.

Oh yeah, and 500 bucks works for me too.
 
I'm in. The scopes in DV Rack seem to simulate the look of a real waveform/vectorscope pretty well. Much better than the wierd spray of dots that passes for scopes in Final Cut. I wonder if this could be rigged as a plugin for Final Cut?
 
YES, for the love of Pete, make this for mac, I would also buy today in that price range with the features listed.
 
Barry_Green said:
I don't know if redrock's supports HD, does it?

I'd definitely be interested. Far and away the things I use most on DV rack are:
1) pixel-accurate monitor for focus, and zooming into the monitor, and full-screen monitor capability
2) digital disk recorder, especially with the split-screen function; gotta have that split-screen capability to match a recorded shot against the live feed.
3) live waveform

If it did disk recording in all modes (DV50, 720p, 1080, and DV) that would be superb. And it should be a universal binary app so it runs on the new macbook and the old powerbooks.

It should record its files to QT MOVs that are directly editable by FCP. Should also use a huge RAM cache to buffer the frames during recording, to prevent there ever being a dropped frame on recording -- we need to be able to inherently trust it no matter what. And it should automatically strip out duplicate frames from 720p variable-frame-rate stuff, so if you're shooting 720/24p mode, it should record only the 24fps to the QT file.

It would also be stellar if it could record MXF files too -- so you'd have the choice of recording MXF or QT. I'd like to be able to use it to capture in the field, but capture MXF files that I could then edit on an Edius or Avid system.

And if you had it ready right now, yes I'd paypal $495 today for it.
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What Barry said.

David
 
What would your preferred method of copy protection be?

Dongle or Locked to 1 desktop and 1 laptop?

The dongle would allow you to move it between computers easier, but would add to the cost.

I hate the idea of having to have anti-piracy, but in such a small market it could jeopordize future development if sales are lost due to piracy.

Thanks
Ben
 
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