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Quick Notes
Heya:
Virtual PC would not do the trick here: see Karl's note about direct access to the video hardware. The mac doesn't have it at all... it sure as heck isn't going to emulate it with any speed worth using.
A note about QuickTime, though. Karl, you may be aware that the QuickTime files saved out of DVRack are "not optimized for use in Final Cut Pro." I've found that opening the clips in QuickTime player and doing a "save as..." and selecting "self contained" does the trick. I believe what's happening here is that the data is being "flattened."
Can you check into whether it's possible to have DVRack "flatten" the clips after it's closed them out (i.e. after "stop" is pressed)? This saves a lot of time for end users, and makes things like removing advanced pulldown a lot less painful.
Lastly, a 1 to 1 pixel preview would be really nice... I had to apologize to my camera operator for questioning his ability to focus the camera when I was looking at it on DVRack: I didn't realize that the softness is part of DVRack and NOT part of his focusing ability!
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