OnLocation requirements

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jaybirch

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