Product Comparison Chart for Mac
 

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

Seems like a no brainer to me, LumiereHD wins.

Murph

I thought Heuris could go back to camera...

heath

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

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...

Heuris not shipping HDV solution
 

The latest update is that Heuris stopped shipping products to edit HDV in FCP.

Wonder why? $$$$$$$

heath

I just noticed that they are, at least their phone number, in L.A. Also, they sell the Indie HD toolkit through resellers...

hwm

Heath,

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

I thought I saw mention of it on their website.

h

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."

I looked at Apple's site and saw nothing new on the HDV situation.

hwm

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.

So they "lied," or am I off base?

hwm

Heath,

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

Frederic

Oh...Gotcha...

What do you mean by complete, though?

heath

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.

No one's buying.

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

hwm

Heath,

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

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

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.