Experience with DV Rack?

[James Redmond]

I used it all the time. The only problem with it, is that if you are shooting something over 1 hour (and are using DV Rack to record it) it sometime corrupts the file. Then you have to call tech support and get a program to fix that file. Otherwise it is a great program.

Good luck, James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[Jay Allen]

I have been using DVRack for over 2 years, and it is a great tool.
There is a new patch available to solve the over 1 hr clip length problem – before the patch i would hit the record button every 50 minutes or so and it would give me a new clip without missing a frame.
The only other problem i have is with my seagate external drives – if the drive is over 200 gig, the drive goes to sleep – just need to wait 5-10 secs after you hit record to come up. As for the laptop, make sure you have all the power management turned off – this can slow down the displays on the dvrack.

[Ufctrance@yahoo.com]

Do you ever use the cards that adjust your color and focus? How hand are those? I downloaded the demo but I don’t have the cards? What is the most valuable feature?

[Ufctrance@yahoo.com]

So when you are video taping, the laptop has to be hooked up to your laptop the whole time and you have an external hard drive? That would put a lot of limititions on camera movement. What kind of video work do you do? Because right now I am doing mainly weddings (plan to do a lot more in the future:)) and it would be a logistical nightmare to have my camera hooked up with my laptop? Maybe I don’t understand the concept, can you tell me how you guys use it and what kind of shoots you use it for?

[Allen Zagel]

That’s what it’s for. I don’t do weddings. Mostly technical work. I use DV Rack 90% of the time for my field shoots. Yes, I have a 75′ firewire cable from the camera to my laptop. I also have shorter ones but the whole point is to shoot through DV Rack and onto a HD. This saves me having to capture the video as well as having the complete “studio” in the field to monitor the video, audio, lighting, white balance and whatever.

I don’t use it, for instance when I’m in China shooting for tourist videos. As in weddings, I’m always on the move.

I understand you can use DV Rack in the studio when capturing the video but I don’t. One thing is if using it in the studio if I remember correctly you can make various changes ‘on-the-fly’ that you can’t do in the field. So you may want to look into that feature.

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com