Moviestuff Retro 8 Pro Mac users

[JohnnyP]

I recently purchased a Moviestuff Retro 8 Pro unit. I am Mac based and I am deciding if I should buy a dedicated PC or try bootcamp with Windows.
I would appreciate any Mac users who could share their input. Thank you.

[Will2]

How much are you using it? Are you doing transfers professionally? If so a separate machine would make sense so you can be color correcting on the Mac with Resolve (or whatever you use) while transferring with the other machine.

I don't believe the Retro 8 requires a very expensive PC.

[JohnnyP]

Will2, thanks for your input. I have decided on a PC for the transfers.

[cinecymru]

I first started with Retro 8 scanning on an imac i5 2.5 2011 model with bootcamp, but it kept crashing, so invested in an i5 intel pc tower with 1tb internal drive and since then all has been very stable.
I export to an Samsung 1tb usb bus drive then import to imac thru imovie 6.02 for editing and idvd. Rather laborious process but works well!
Would be interested to hear how you get on with newer imac?

[antrud]

I have a Retro8 and RetroPro16 (running the RetroPro @ 10fps) capturing uncompressed to an internal 120GB SSD drive on MacPro running Win 7. Export image sequences to a to external Sata NTFS formatted drives for storage then boot OSX for import into FCP. Render to internal RAID for processing and editing. Export completed projects to Mac formatted external Sata drives for storage. The SSD and RAID wiped for new captures and processing. So far have transferred about 5000ft without a crash.