[QLab] Nice Program!

[Paal T Nygaard]

Hi!

Just popping in to say this is a way cool 
program! Bought Pro Video edition. Waiting and 
hoping for future plugs to send DMX512 commands....:-)

Using Qlab now on a theatre piece with video 
running constantly for 50 minutes. Lots of 
crossfades, also fade in new video on top of the 
other, fade it out again, lots of audio cues and what have you.
Impressing performance!

Managed to get a crash during test today, fiddled 
with inspector view while the show was playing. Rebooted, all well.
Hope this will not happen during show...:-) My 
guess is that it will not, I will not fiddle with inspector then.

Also made a quicktime movie in quartz, capturing 
feed from my dv-camcorder, that is capturing 
input from a wireless camera mounted on a flying eagle puppet.
Works just brilliant. So cool we had all grinned all the way around our heads.
Tried other peoples quicktimes that should do the same, but didn´t work.
Could it be that these QTs has to be made fir the specific camcorder in use?


We are running the show on a macbook pro, with 
external dv-drive for both programfile and videos and audio.
Had all video in placable window first, was a bit too heavvy on the poor mac.
Then found out that vga output could be routed 
separately in Qlab, even though the mac wouldn´t 
use the vga out as a seperate screen.
Routing videos directly out second vga took a lot of stress of the poor mac.

So, to make myself not soo very popular in Mac communities...:

Seems the Macbook pro is not very strong compared 
to the price..would be easy to buy a PC for the same money a lot stronger.
Any hope to see Qlab or something similar for 
PC?  Even better, as OSX seems to be the best OS 
for multimedia, any hope to see OSX for PC legeally released?

Perhaps more constructive: Anyone tried macbook 
pro with external graphics card? If so, did it 
speed thing up a bit or just give more vga connections?

Come to think of it: The videos we use are made 
on PC using adobe premiere. Videos are Microsoft 
DV AVI. Would it be better to covert them with 
the mac into Apple DV Movie?  Any other format we 
could choose, light on the mac, and still with same quality as DV AVI?

Cheers, best regards,

Paal
Norway (explains some typing errors I should think..)