LiveStage Pro for Mac

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• Pretty good product...but the worst company making...

  nospamaddressJanuary 15, 2006

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  ...OSX apps today<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />For the most part, the product is actually pretty good. It has the potential to be great. Very sophisticated features for advanced users. Being able to export a QT movie with a 0.1 framerate is awesome (for slideshows synced to audio). That said, Totally Hip sucks...big time!! They fix existing bugs and introduce a couple of new features and slug you for a couple of hundred bucks for an upgrade. How about fixing the bugs for free guys??? Particularly is someone's paid $500.00 for the app. It's a joke. There's no customer service to speak of either. When I think of the other apps I use from companies like Rogue Amoeba, where I pay $20-$40 bucks and receive upgrades for free and GREAT customer service, Totally Hip, well, Totally Sucks. I really regret buying this app.

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• Pretty good product...but the worst company making...

  nospamaddressJanuary 15, 2006

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  ...OSX apps today<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />For the most part, the product is actually pretty good. It has the potential to be great. Very sophisticated features for advanced users. Being able to export a QT movie with a 0.1 framerate is awesome (for slideshows synced to audio). That said, Totally Hip sucks...big time!! They fix existing bugs and introduce a couple of new features and slug you for a couple of hundred bucks for an upgrade. How about fixing the bugs for free guys??? Particularly is someone's paid $500.00 for the app. It's a joke. There's no customer service to speak of either. When I think of the other apps I use from companies like Rogue Amoeba, where I pay $20-$40 bucks and receive upgrades for free and GREAT customer service, and Totally Hip, well, Totally Sucks. I really regret buying this app.

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• best interactive QuickTime software available

  c.groegerJanuary 12, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />LiveStage Pro is the best interactive QuickTime software available on the market. I was able to use it to create unique projects for my clients. Totally Hip has provided me amazing support - try to get this kind of support from Macromedia, no way... LiveStage Pro is a Pro app, and it is definitely not for newbies or people who have no clues about scripting, but with a bit of time and skills, you can really do great projects.

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• this software is crap

  robert_v_buck_dotmacJanuary 31, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The software is buggy, crashes a lot, and their support is non-existant. I bought it, but ended up ditching it because it was so bad... a total waste of money. You will seriously regret ever getting involved with "totally hip", which should rename themselves "a total rip". robert buck

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• Expensive Embarrassing Defective

  Bill CerniukDecember 5, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />We initially purchased LiveStage Pro to produce a menu picking system for QuickTime which allows for dynamic iTunes style operations. There is every indication that the software can do this... but. When we installed it, it called home. This was difficult as our environment is in the DoD and such actions are considered a breech of security. We worked around that. Next as we test pre-releases of Mac OS, our machines (especially mine) are rebuilt frequently. Second, when I go into the office, my 17" PB occasionally turns into a desktop hard drive when I work in a dual processor machine. Both of the aforementioned actions requires multiple installs due to the copy protection mechanism employed by TotallyHip (the app only ever existed on my 17"s HD). Both of these actions helped reduce our license count to 0 before I managed to get the project completed. I found this out late on a Friday nite before a Monday deadline. Missed the deadline (coincided with a large event) and it was "game over". Complete waste of money. Now I have a CD which is useless, an install that refuses to run and a bunch of egg on my face. Conclusion: Copy protection and application crashes make this an application to avoid. If you want to waste $600, LiveStage Pro is the perfect application.

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• unstable, untended, expensive

  justtesting24May 2, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br /> I just downloaded LiveStage Pro to make a preloader for my QTVR object movies. This involves a small flash movie and to pass datta between QuickTime and Flash. So far so good. This should not be a really difficult approach. Totallyhip makes this badly difficult. 1. Downloading from the knowledgebase or any part of their website shows a broken microsoft database application. (Happy that I could at least download the trial program itself, which works well for the trial mode - no silly banner in the finised project or anything.) 2. Next day the database was working again, I downloaded the requested files. And what: These files refer to a very old livestage program version, and are made out of submitted member-reports of the "old" blue abuse website... Instructions are frequently called "yeh is'nt it great.. the code should look something like this ... have fun... ?! These examples were never reproduced by any member of the livestage team, and so far most of them are to old to work. Why? Because of tracks used in earlier LiveStagePro version and not available in the recent version. Because of script syntax changes also not available in the recent one... :-( 3. And this product is not a shareware piece. it costs around 500 bugs... that is quite a lot of money. A message to LiveStagePro Management: Go through your website and clean it up, so everyhting refers to the actual 4.5 Livestage Pro and - make it easier for developer to reproduce something, not with 4 year old "somewhere around the web"-found stuff.

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• Market Missed, Cost Too High, Stick with Flash

  Wm. CerniukAugust 30, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is not a beginner's product (MacPaint, SuperPaint) but rather an expert's product which is more in-depth and hence more complicated than PhotoShop. The expense of over &#36;700 for this software is compounded by the highly restrictive copy protection scheme that does not allow the "owner" to move the software between workstations or even system upgrades. The demo version is appreciated but far to restrictive to get a serious feel for use of the software. QuickTime technology's capability far exceed Flash, Real, or Windows Media yet there are few tools that allow the novice or intermediate to learn the technology. If you are curious about the QuickTime technology and want a general resource which someone in your company might end up using, this product is definitely not for you. If on the other hand you know exactly what you want to do, know exactly who will do it in your company, know exactly what machine they will use and know that you will not be upgrading the operating system on that machine, and that person is a Flash expert, then this product might work out nicely for your tasks. <b>Recommendation:</b> Prohibitive learning curve of LiveStage & QuickTime programming combined with a high initial cost of this product with the additional hidden costs makes this product less than attractive for all but the most dedicated *individual*; <i>stick with Flash.</i>

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• L'homme GrenouilleSeptember 12, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />LSP4 is a *huge* improvement to the interface. It's much cleaner and easier to navigate. The palettes still feel heavy (i.e. there's so much blank

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• blizzastrSeptember 12, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Seems I owe the folks at Totally Hip a star. LSP4 has a new updated UI.

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• TitanicFebruary 13, 2002

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Real Audio and Windows Media are worthless compared to QuickTime. The price is incredibly high though. Maybe they should make a version for people that

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