View Full Version : Product Comparison Chart for Mac


Frederic Lumiere
June 21st, 2004, 08:51 AM
Here's a straight forward product comparison between Lumiere HD and other solutions to edit HDV on a Mac:

http://www.lumierehd.com/compare/product_comparison.pdf

Christopher C. Murphy
June 21st, 2004, 11:15 AM
Seems like a no brainer to me, LumiereHD wins.

Murph

Heath McKnight
June 22nd, 2004, 09:53 PM
I thought Heuris could go back to camera...

heath

ps-Lumiere HD are nicer people, too. :-)

Frederic Lumiere
June 22nd, 2004, 09:59 PM
Heath,

Based on what they advertise they can only send transport stream back to DVHS.

The $500 HD Toolkit might but the MPEG encoder for that package still isn't shipping. It mentions a shipping date of 2nd Quater, 2004...so they have a few days left...

Frederic Lumiere
July 30th, 2004, 12:01 PM
The latest update is that Heuris stopped shipping products to edit HDV in FCP.

Heath McKnight
August 1st, 2004, 12:27 PM
Wonder why? $$$$$$$

heath

Heath McKnight
August 1st, 2004, 07:06 PM
I just noticed that they are, at least their phone number, in L.A. Also, they sell the Indie HD toolkit through resellers...

hwm

Frederic Lumiere
August 3rd, 2004, 05:30 AM
Heath,

Do you know of any reseller selling the $500 Indie HD toolkit?

Heath McKnight
August 3rd, 2004, 07:30 AM
I thought I saw mention of it on their website.

h

Bob England
August 3rd, 2004, 03:54 PM
They are no longer offering Indie HD Toolkit for sale, at least not on their website. It has this to say:
"HEURIS' Indie HD Toolkit is now sold exclusively through OEM integration and 1st tier distribution. If you are a distributor wishing to sell this product please contact Brian Quandt at HEURIS, you may email him at mrmpeg@heuris.com."

"Apple Computer has announced support for HDV within its product line, individuals seeking HDV support should contact Apple directly, there will no longer be a need to purchase a 3rd party solution to support HDV, for more information visit their website at www.apple.com."

Heath McKnight
August 3rd, 2004, 08:48 PM
I looked at Apple's site and saw nothing new on the HDV situation.

hwm

Frederic Lumiere
August 4th, 2004, 07:18 AM
Apple won't release HDV support in FCP for a while.

Looks like they weren't able the complete their $500 Indie HD Toolkit by "2nd Quarter" like they announced and advertised on their site for months.

Heath McKnight
August 4th, 2004, 01:12 PM
So they "lied," or am I off base?

hwm

Frederic Lumiere
August 7th, 2004, 08:02 AM
Heath,

I don't think they lied as much as they couldn't complete the product.

Frederic

Heath McKnight
August 7th, 2004, 08:28 AM
Oh...Gotcha...

What do you mean by complete, though?

heath

Frederic Lumiere
August 7th, 2004, 09:43 AM
They never shipped the $500 Indie Toolkit. The press release and the website announced the product back in January with availability during second quarter 2004. When the second quarter expired, they announced they wouldn't sell the Toolkit direct to consumer but only through resellers.

I don't know of any resellers who sell it.

Heath McKnight
August 7th, 2004, 01:24 PM
No one's buying.

Is anyone buying the other plug-ins that AREN'T hardware based, like the Indie HD Toolkit?

hwm

Frederic Lumiere
August 11th, 2004, 06:40 AM
Heath,

I really don't think you'll find anyone who purchased their $500 solution because I don't think they ever shipped it.

Heath McKnight
August 11th, 2004, 09:26 AM
not even one of the $200 or $100 solutions? Wow...

I tried to test it out for them in an article at a tech magazine, but no call back!

heath

Frederic Lumiere
August 11th, 2004, 03:53 PM
I think they sold some of the Xtractor software but there was very little value in that software since all it did was what Apple's DVHSCap does.