> "Interest by the Win/MAC Chameleon crowd?"

I'm not understanding how a consumer video converter for Mac solves any mixed NLE problems? It looks like it's geared toward the DVD ripping crowd. I don't see support for popular professional formats like MXF. Most Mac editors are probably already using Apple Compressor which, BTW, is cheaper and supports more professional formats. Free converters like Handbreak, AviDemux, and MPEG StreamClip all work fine on a Mac too so there are already lots of video converters for the Mac. I don't see how this one changes anything (but perhaps that was your reason for asking the question). ;-)

~jr

Sorry, but I dont understand why you would need this.

I edit in Vegas and FCX on the same machine.

Workflows are very simple-

If editing raw cam files- they open in both platforms. (must have orig folder structure for Mac)

As intermediates- Either DnxHD or Cineform. They open in both platforms.

Delivery- To web - via Handbrake. Drop in DnxHD for Windows. Prores for Mac.
To Disc- Render your mpg2 from Vegas in Windows and author in DVDA,
Render your mpg2 and build disc straight from FCX in Mac, or for more complex authoring bring it back to DVDA in Windows.

Why would you need additional software just for converting between platforms?

Ha! you posted while I was writing......

Jedman, you have a paticular kind of comment to explore - when you say same machine for NLE assembly - I assume you mean a Mac is your hardware and you are running Windows emulation? So does your file type and directory reach extend from each virtual environment into the the other's. If you run Windows, you open a file in a Mac directory? is that what you meant?

My quest in this thread was trying to address whether users of one platform are sharing with another NLE edit bay of a different platform.

> "I assume you mean a Mac is your hardware and you are running Windows emulation? So does your file type and directory reach extend from each virtual environment into the the other's."

Yes, whether you use Apple Bootcamp or VMware Fusion the files of both OS's are available to the other. My Windows 7 VM on my MacBook Pro shares the same home folder as OS X so the same files are available on both.

> "My quest in this thread was trying to address whether users of one platform are sharing with another NLE edit bay of a different platform."

Yes. That's what Jedman was trying to explain. If you need to move video files between Windows and a Mac most of us use Avid DNxHD as the digital intermediary. It is visually lossless and doesn't suffer from any color gamut problems that some other codecs have.

That's why we both reacted the way we did. If you know you are going to work with editors on mixed platforms you just use Avid DNxHD as a digital intermediary and you're all set.

~jr

What JohnnyRoy said,
Except I actually have a PC that I boot into Mac on (a Hackintosh).
When I built it I couldn't buy a Mac with the specs I wanted-
3930k, 32gb ram, room for 8 internal HDD, multiple esata for external raid drives etc.
Just have Osx and Windows on their own separate SSD drives and choose at boot.

All data drives except the 1tb Mac User Home drive, are formatted NTFS.
Osx has Tuxura NTFS installed so it can write, as well as read these drives.
Mac will read NTFS but can't write to it natively.
Interesting side note-
Blackmagic speed test software is cross platform. I get faster read and write speeds in OSX than I do in Windows even using the Non native NTFS drives in Mac...... Go figure.