alanbk266
Posted Tue 13 Dec 11 @ 9:18 pm
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Hi all,
I'm reposting in my account that has my user license.
I'm a long time VDJ Pro user, up to now on PC. My current IBM is getting up there in age, 5 years old, and I'm looking to replace it with a MBP. I'm looking the the 15 or 17, with the 2.4 I7 cpu, the higher end video board, 8gb of ram, and the 7200 rpm hd.
All our music, karaoke, and Video files are on external hard drive. We have a Gigaport AG usb sound card. I do see that Gigaport has sound drives for the mac.
How has VDJ Pro beein on Lion, taking into consideration the video playback.?
Does anyone know if the Mac version supports the Gigaport AG assuming I can get the mac driver for it installed?
I also would always bootcamp into W7 on the Mac and run windows VDJ anyway. Has anyone tried this?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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Hi all,
I'm reposting in my account that has my user license.
I'm a long time VDJ Pro user, up to now on PC. My current IBM is getting up there in age, 5 years old, and I'm looking to replace it with a MBP. I'm looking the the 15 or 17, with the 2.4 I7 cpu, the higher end video board, 8gb of ram, and the 7200 rpm hd.
All our music, karaoke, and Video files are on external hard drive. We have a Gigaport AG usb sound card. I do see that Gigaport has sound drives for the mac.
How has VDJ Pro beein on Lion, taking into consideration the video playback.?
Does anyone know if the Mac version supports the Gigaport AG assuming I can get the mac driver for it installed?
I also would always bootcamp into W7 on the Mac and run windows VDJ anyway. Has anyone tried this?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Posté Tue 13 Dec 11 @ 2:22 pm
djernie2
i am running the mbp17in and have not had any issues, i have upgraded to 8gb and and ssd hard drive. so far so good. i us the dj io sound card and the auio8 dj sound card, with no problems. i am using the denon mc6000, it has a sound card in it, but i have noticed vdj freezing sometimes while using it. so i am trying to figure out if it is the mc6000 sound card or vdj or the mac, have not figured it out yet. until i do i will be using my external sound card. Hope this helps.
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 12:56 am
djles.co.uk
I'm using a 15" Macbook Pro i7 with 500gb hd. I bought it in July 2010, it is boot camped with a legit W7 32bit. I'm using the Denon MC6000 and used the Hercules RMX prior to that.
I use 100% videos at my weekly residencies and have done for 4 years. Everything works great with this setup and never had a crash since using the MBP.
One mistake I made at the beginning was not giving enough hd space to W7. I set my bootcamp partition to 32gb of my 500gb hd which is a bit small. As everything is working beautifully I'm not gonna change it, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" springs to mind.
I use a Seagate 1tb portable external hd (USB powered) which contains 22,000 mp3's, 23,000 Karaoke and 5,000 videos.
Hope this is useful info for you.
Cheers
Les
http://www.vjles.com
I use 100% videos at my weekly residencies and have done for 4 years. Everything works great with this setup and never had a crash since using the MBP.
One mistake I made at the beginning was not giving enough hd space to W7. I set my bootcamp partition to 32gb of my 500gb hd which is a bit small. As everything is working beautifully I'm not gonna change it, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" springs to mind.
I use a Seagate 1tb portable external hd (USB powered) which contains 22,000 mp3's, 23,000 Karaoke and 5,000 videos.
Hope this is useful info for you.
Cheers
Les
http://www.vjles.com
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 4:40 am
alanbk266
Thank you for your response.
DJERNIE2 - I assme you are running the MAC Version of VDJ?
DJSOULMAN - My plan was to hopefully run the MAC version of VDJ, and as a fall back plan, use Windows 7 32 bit via bootcamp. I had a typo in my orginal post I meant to say "I could aslo always run bootcamp with WIndows 7". Did you try the MAC version and if so, what are your expereinces?
I ordered the MBP 17 w/4gb of ram, the anti-glare screen, and the 7200 RPM 750 GB drive, and with 3 year apple care. Most lilkey I will be upgrading the ram to 8gb. Crucial was 45 bucks for 8gb. Much better than the 200 bucks apple wants for and addiitional 4 gb.
Alan
DJERNIE2 - I assme you are running the MAC Version of VDJ?
DJSOULMAN - My plan was to hopefully run the MAC version of VDJ, and as a fall back plan, use Windows 7 32 bit via bootcamp. I had a typo in my orginal post I meant to say "I could aslo always run bootcamp with WIndows 7". Did you try the MAC version and if so, what are your expereinces?
I ordered the MBP 17 w/4gb of ram, the anti-glare screen, and the 7200 RPM 750 GB drive, and with 3 year apple care. Most lilkey I will be upgrading the ram to 8gb. Crucial was 45 bucks for 8gb. Much better than the 200 bucks apple wants for and addiitional 4 gb.
Alan
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 6:48 am
djles.co.uk
I have the Mac version installed on the Mac partition too. Haven't used it at a gig as the PC version has all the video plugins and transitions that you can't get on the Mac version. As I use video 100% then there is no choice really, for me it's the PC version all the way.
I consider the Mac version as my fall back plan, not that it's needed.
Cheers
Les
http://www.vjles.com
I consider the Mac version as my fall back plan, not that it's needed.
Cheers
Les
http://www.vjles.com
Posté Thu 15 Dec 11 @ 4:01 am
djjohnnyrox
I also run a MBP and also have win 7 bootcamp and do mostly video at my shows... I think the videos run smoother on the mac side than on windows side. But i do my shows using windows, what i have found is that windows uses much less of the cpu which results in the laptop running cooler and there are also more effects available for the windows version. I did have one night where I had an issue (updated a driver and it caused problems with stuttering) I rebooted to OSX and played all night .... It didnt miss a beat. I did run smc fan control to keep things a little cooler when in Osx
Posté Thu 15 Dec 11 @ 12:00 pm
alanbk266
Thanks for the input. I've got the Mac and working with Lion and Windows on it.
A question for those of you who switch between the two Operating System. This is a database question. All my music, karaoke, and videos are on external hard drive. It seems that Mac running lion does not not recognize the pre-existing database on the external drives. What do you have to do to make the drives compatiable with both so you can swtich between windows and mac and not have the error that the file cant be found. I guess its looking for the file on the windows drive with a drive letter. Of course a mac does not have drive letters. How do you handle this?
A question for those of you who switch between the two Operating System. This is a database question. All my music, karaoke, and videos are on external hard drive. It seems that Mac running lion does not not recognize the pre-existing database on the external drives. What do you have to do to make the drives compatiable with both so you can swtich between windows and mac and not have the error that the file cant be found. I guess its looking for the file on the windows drive with a drive letter. Of course a mac does not have drive letters. How do you handle this?
Posté Sun 08 Jan 12 @ 11:10 pm
djprofitt
Your drive has to be formatted to ExFAT, which means Lion can read/write. In NTFS, which is the Windows default, it can read, not write. Also, using text editor, you can change a couple of things in your playlist text files so that Mac will read them
Posté Mon 09 Jan 12 @ 10:29 am
djjohnnyrox
The database between the 2 systems is a pain... Here is what I do. I have all my music on and external drive. On the windows side Virtualdj saves the database on the external, its called Virtualdjdatabase V6.xml , I copy that to a flash drive, restart in mac then do to the documents folder, inside there is a folder named virtual dj. Copy it into there. There will a Virtual dj database folder in there and its names slightly different Delete that file and rename the filer you just copied in there to the exact name of the file you just deleted. (yes I know that sounds really goofy)
I do this about once a week it only takes a few minutes but it keep the 2 databases in sync
J
If anyone knows of an easier way I would love to know
I do this about once a week it only takes a few minutes but it keep the 2 databases in sync
J
If anyone knows of an easier way I would love to know
Posté Mon 09 Jan 12 @ 12:53 pm
DJ KYLE THOM
The gigaport works straight off and doesn't need drivers on a mac, just like lots of things.
Welcome to the club.
Welcome to the club.
Posté Mon 09 Jan 12 @ 4:27 pm
pseft
djprofitt wrote :
Your drive has to be formatted to ExFAT, which means Lion can read/write. In NTFS, which is the Windows default, it can read, not write. Also, using text editor, you can change a couple of things in your playlist text files so that Mac will read them
sorry for hijackn, iv just did my ext HD to FAT32, what shall i format my ext HD to??? for my MBP
Posté Sat 21 Jan 12 @ 11:01 pm