[Johnnyvideo_]

I was afraid of that. Thanks Walter. Guess I’ll have to avoid editing in HDV then.

[Johnnyvideo_]

Thanks for the reply Uli.
After reading your post I decided to go to my dealer and check it out. I was pretty impressed and figured why not give it a try, how can I go wrong for that price!
I took it home with my MBP to do some edits in the evening after I picked it up. I’ve gotta say I’m thrilled with it. I was sitting on my couch cutting up some HDV clips and outputting it downconverted to SD in realtime watching it on my tv! Then I read a review of it on dv.com ( https://www.dv.com/reviews/reviews_item.jhtml?category=Software&articleId=193700401 ) made me feel even better about it.

Combined with my new MBP and FCP (new to FCP by the way) I’m really starting to feel psyched about doing more edits on the go.

John

[Johnnyvideo_]

Guys,

“Matrox is well known for releasing products for either Mac or PC platform that are hyped in the begining, but then they begin designing the next product and drop support for the previous”

Doesn’t every company do this? If companies didn’t begin design of a new product after releasing (or in most cases before releasing) a product, they’d go out of business.

I’m also curious as to for how long you expect a company to support the product? For the DigiSuite line Matrox kept coming out with free software updates for 8 years after the initial release of the product. Obviously lower ticket items would have a shorter live span. Isn’t that normal in every business?

As for the RTMac, have you ever tried working with Apple? They are a very secretive bunch and don’t let anybody in as to what they’re doing. I mean, c’mon look at when the RTMac came out. It added accelerated realtime functionality to FCP. Then with the next version of FCP, FCP alone could do more than the RTMac could! Just a guess here but it looks to me like Apple is the one that screwed everybody over!