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LiveStage Pro

LiveStage Pro

QuickTime interactive authoring environment

Version:  2006-06-06

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Expensive Embarrassing Defective

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Bill Cerniuk Sunday, December 05 2004 @ 07:36 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

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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