[QLab] Nice Program!

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi Paal,

On Oct 7, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Paal T Nygaard wrote:
>
> 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?

Yes, I believe that may be correct--if I remember right, QC allows  
you to specify the camera you want to use.

> 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?

Not for now, at least from Figure 53.  We've put a lot of  
consideration into whether it would make sense to bring QLab to the  
PC--we've even talked to a third party that has Windows development  
experience about the possibility of partnering with them to make it  
happen--but at the end of the day QLab on a PC would either be (A)  
hugely costly and time consuming to develop, (B) not look much like  
QLab any more, or most likely (C) both.  So instead of getting bogged  
down in all that, and seeing our releases slow to a crawl, we're  
going to stay focused on OS X only, and take advantage of the  
development environment there to keep things clipping along and take  
advantage of all the mac-only technologies available on OS X.

> Even better, as OSX seems to be the best OS
> for multimedia, any hope to see OSX for PC legeally released?

Pretty much no chance of that at all, as far as I can tell.

> 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?

This is a good question.  I don't have any advice on it at the  
moment, but I've been talking with at least one customer who is doing  
some tests of third party graphics cards with QLab.  In general I'm  
very interested in exploring what graphics cards can be recommended  
beyond the default Apple bundled cards, because those cards aren't  
really the best available technology--and certainly aren't the best  
available price.

So, nothing official to report now, but I welcome any feedback on  
this and will relate more information as it becomes reliable.

Thanks,
Chris