SyncVUE – My Pick for NAB!

[Paul Nevison]

thanks Walter for the info…..looks like a really nice app….now would like to know some more about the syncvue:share feature in development.

out of interest when you provide client approvals, what are you encoding them as or do you send full rez QT movies?

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QT 7.0.4
FCP 5.0.4
BMD Decklink Extreme 5.5.1
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[Walter Biscardi]

[paul nevison] “out of interest when you provide client approvals, what are you encoding them as or do you send full rez QT movies?”

As Michael explained it to me, you can send them any resolution from a small file to playback on a laptop to a full HD file that the client can play in a board room on a large projector type of system. Resolutions for the clients do not need to match the resolution you have on your system.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

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[John Fishback]

Can SyncVUE be applied to remote ADR in any way?

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.0.4, DVDSP4.0.2, Comp2.0.1, STP1.0.2)
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AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
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[Michael Buday]

>>>Can SyncVUE be applied to remote ADR in any way?<<< Not currently, but a number of people have asked for ways of syncing other devices through syncVUE, including translating RS-422 commands on both ends. Please let me know what it is you're looking to do and I'll see what we can do in a future point release. You can write to me at: michael@syncvue.com

Michael Buday
President, Intelligent Gadgets
http://www.syncvue.com

[Michael Buday]

The price per license (user) is $189.99.

We extended the NAB pricing for three days (until Sunday, April 30th) because of a problem getting the NAB pricing info to our website a couple of days ago.

The NAB Introductory offer is two licenses for $249.99 ($124.99 per license), or $499.99 for five licenses ($99.99 per license).

Michael Buday
President, Intelligent Gadgets
http://www.syncvue.com

[Josh Mellicker]

Walter,

SyncVUE looks really great.

I would like to get your (and other Cow readers’) feedback on a piece of software I just wrote called “QT Movie Notetaker“.

Currently, it is meant for reviewing an edit or footage and taking notes, and handing those notes off to another person. I made it for our internal use, then decided to make it available to others as well.

I could make it a real-time tool to review a clip in sync, just haven’t done that yet. I would be very appreciative if you all could try it out and comment on what you and other readers feel would be the most useful next features to add.

Here is the feature list now:

* loads anything that can be played in Quicktime Player(PJPEG, H.264, MPEG/MPEG2, AVI, Windows Media)
* automatically enters movie name and length in notes
* automatically enters movie time in notes when stop button is clicked
* Click on any note to jump directly to that point in the movie
* Movie time display
* keyboard shortcuts – shuttle transport control – Cmd/Cntrl left, down and right arrow work like J, K, L in your editing software, Shift shuttles rapidly
* recurring notes feature- if you need to enter a certain note multiple times, rather than typing it over and over, or copying and pasting, you can just enter the note in the recurring notes field, and add it with one click to your notes along with the current time of the movie
* save notes with one click
* email notes with one click
* fits in 1280 X 854 PowerBook screen (this is minumum screen resolution)
* will load any movie size – resizes movie automatically to fit your screen (or window)- log HD footage on a laptop!
* Mac OS X / WinXP
* free!

You can download it here for free:

https://dvcreators.net/qt-movie-notetaker

I am working on a Pro version (pricing not set yet), already have SMPTE working, am adding a bunch of other stuff.

Would love to hear what you guys would ideally want!

Thanks,

Josh

[Walter Biscardi]

Thanks josh, but right now I’ll stick with SyncVUE. The feature set on it already has everything we need and more right now and after talking to Michael at NAB, he’s already got things in the pipeline that I would never even have thought of.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

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[Josh Mellicker]

Hi, Walter, thanks for your reply.

Just to clarify, I am not suggesting switching, my app is not competition to SyncVue, it has no real-time collaboration, no Skype, etc.

QT Movie NoteTaker is for people who want to avoid hours of rendering and encoding window burned DVDs for clients and collaborators to take notes of footage or edits. It has a nice large area for notes, is resizable, and plays H.264 smoothly.

To recap:

– QT Movie NoteTaker takes less than 8 seconds to download (broadband)

– no installation (unzip only)

– free, no registration

So anyone who wants to test it, you would be testing within 20 seconds or so, no hassles, I was hoping you’d give it a minute or two because I respect your opinion.

I have over a thousand users, many are seasoned pros, their rave reviews are on this page.

Would love to get some feedback from Cow readers!

These direct download links will make it more convenient:

download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for OS X

download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for WinXP

Thanks,

Josh

[John Fishback]

Josh, I’m not clear if the program works with SMPTE timecode. It looks perfect for an upcoming Flash project where we have to review 14 hours of video to make selects and pull times for cue points in Flash.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.0.4, DVDSP4.0.2, Comp2.0.1, STP1.0.2)
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[Walter Biscardi]

[Josh Mellicker] “Just to clarify, I am not suggesting switching, my app is not competition to SyncVue, it has no real-time collaboration, no Skype, etc.”

Actually, it doesn’t require Skype and can function exactly as you describe your product. I particularly like the funcationality of bringing all the notations directly into FCP so I can review each note at that particular point in the timeline.

But some folks will probably appreciate the price of your product. Good luck with it.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

Now Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters