Anyone Interested in a DV Rack like app for MAC?

Not to burst your bubble on this project, but now that you can use Boot Camp to run Windows on your MacBookPro, you can actually run DV Rack on your Mac!!!

I didn't know if anyone else posted this yet....
 
Hmm.. I think most Mac users want to use OSX. Would you care to guess how many more Power Books are in the wild than MBP's?

Also we will support Quicktime and for anyone using FCP on a mac, DV Rack just wont work.

Plus, once people see our app, they will be like, um what was that other program? And the response will be "who cares, this Rocks!"

tbanucci said:
Not to burst your bubble on this project, but now that you can use Boot Camp to run Windows on your MacBookPro, you can actually run DV Rack on your Mac!!!

I didn't know if anyone else posted this yet....
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Cool- I agree with you that a Mac OS X version would be great- the less I have to deal with Windows, the better. And if the features of your program outweigh DV Rack, then consider me another cutomer!

I was just throwing the Intel Mac thing out there in case you had not decided to go into this.
 
The intel mac thing does raise some questions, as I believe DVC Rack will let you record to quicktime files.

I'd never bothered to do a live log & capture with FCP, but having seen Noah's demo at the HD Bootcamp, I gotta say, DVC Rack smacks FCP silly for doing the live capture/waveform thing. If bena provides an app that's of comparable quality, there should be a ready market for that.
 
As far as I know, DV rack does not record QT files.. Yet. This I heard was a future feature, but until we see it....

Live waveforms are already up and running as well as the other scopes.

I really want to be able to use my 1 GHZ G4 PB with its 4200 rpm drive to capture 720P, so we are trying to optimize so people are not forced to upgrade to use our app. This is an on going process and we are making good progress.

We also need to draw some nice icons for the buttons.

We are working hard to get a tech demo with finished GUI ready for the NY BOOTCAMP, in the least you will see all the Scopes working in real time and recording direct to disk.

Thanks for all the interest.

Ben

Barry_Green said:
The intel mac thing does raise some questions, as I believe DVC Rack will let you record to quicktime files.

I'd never bothered to do a live log & capture with FCP, but having seen Noah's demo at the HD Bootcamp, I gotta say, DVC Rack smacks FCP silly for doing the live capture/waveform thing. If bena provides an app that's of comparable quality, there should be a ready market for that.
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I have DV Rack on a PC but do not really use it becuase it is on a PC. I do remember recording QuickTime files with it - DV QuickTime files. Do not know about DVCPRO-HD though.
 
Since when did it change? The last two times I talked to the DV Rack guys they said that although they are interested they don't think they will be doing any kind of DV rack for DVCPrOHD at all. Mac or PC, we're all out of luck if we have an HVX.

Has there been a new development?
 
Yes, DVC Rack is in betatest right now. Should be on the market in six to eight weeks. But it's PC-only, whereas what bena is developing is a Mac application.
 
DV Rack does indeed support recording to the QuickTime file format. It has since Day 1, and it's an option when recording DVCPro HD as well. And with the release of an update that should be ready to go next week, timecode support will be extended to the QuickTime format.
 
Bena,

Count me in -- if it works well and does a reasonable job of producing something aking to a Mac HD DV Rack, $500 seems fair to me.

Thanks,

Stephen
Westwood Studio
 
For you that are interested, Bena will be joining us at the HD bootcamp in New York May 20th to show us where he is at.. we are all very excited.
 
Jarred Land said:
For you that are interested, Bena will be joining us at the HD bootcamp in New York May 20th to show us where he is at.. we are all very excited.
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Thanks so much for having me! I look foward to meeting you all at the Boot camp and showing you what we are up to.
 
I have a macbook pro that is my shooting/downloading laptop. I already have the universal binary fcp installed and wonder if $500 is worth it to improve the functionality durring the shoot. What benefits would this offer over digitizing straight to fcp?
thanks,
Sam
 
I've been drooling over DV Rack for the last few years at NAB. It's great to hear about your project.

I believe the more full featured you can make your product the better it will be received. DV Rack has pretty much everything...

Pricing at $500. seems a bit steep to me. DV Rack is $295. I know that your product will be the only software on the Mac, at least for the near future and DV Rack doesn't support the HVX 200. But FCP Studio is $1299. for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Livetype and Compressor.

I've been in business selling training products for years and there's always a price point where you'll make the most money. Priced to high and people will figure out a way around your security. Final Cut Studio and DV Rack does set a bench mark to work from for your pricing.

Concerning the dongle, it's a deal breaker for me. Also, please consider that many users aren't large studios. In my case, I usually shoot with three cameras. 3 x $500. is a big enough finacial whack that would probably keep me just using FCP. Perhaps sell individual licenses but offer a discount for each additional license to a single user.

I wish you well in your endevor and I'm looking forward to seeing the results.
 
We're in!

An HVX along with a Mac Laptop with the features mentioned here: HD monitoring and shot matching....

Drooooooooooooooooool!

Lee
 
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