Use Your Mac as a Video Field Monitor
This is exciting; here’s the blurb from Macintouch:
Red Lightning Software’s DV Monitor 1.1 enables videographers to view live video on a Mac just as on a dedicated field monitor. The software provides 1:1 pixel accurate video, exposure zebras, image flipping for 35mm depth of field adapters, on-screen guides, screen calibration to NTSC or PAL standards,, and other features. This release adds support for 16:9 Digital Squeeze mode and customization of each Overlay Guide color. Until November 1, DV Monitor is $129.99 ($149 thereafter) for Mac OS X 10.4 (Universal Binary) and a DV camera with FireWire.
DV Monitor will improve location shooting for all kinds of videographers – schools will be able to make much more professional-looking video with this. It doesn’t have live waveform monitors or vectorscopes (DV Rack does this for PCs), but it allows for much more precision than the standard viewfinder on any camera.