[Jerryknox]

For anyone who’s interested, I had an NAB demo today of syncVUE and I came away extremely impressed. Very simple, very elegant interface – and at the price, it was kind of a no-brainer for me to dive in and buy a few licenses (they were offering five licenses for $100 each only for the duration of the show).

Basically, you ship a QT file to your director (or producer, or whomever else you want to “work” with), then you all launch your syncVUE players and “connect” to each other. At that point, you’re both watching the same media file (local copies of it) in sync. It had all the basic FCP stuff like JKL, etc. Anyone in the session can add locators with notes, and by the time they ship (next month), they claim they’ll have a drawing layer as well (lines, circles, arrows, etc. though I didn’t see this in action) You can also export all the locators back to FCP as an XML file.

In the demo I saw, they were syncing 480P and 720P files encoded as H.264 and they looked incredible. The whole app plugs into SKYPE for connectivity, and as a result, it has built in voice conferencing to all your participants in addition to the syncd movie playback.

Very cool..