You can download and try ChainGang for 14 days and may then buy your unlock code online via PayPal or ShareIT
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 ChainGang is a value for money solution for synchronizing video playback to MIDI timecode or MIDI Clock. Based on code that handles synchronized multiscreen video playback in humatic's artistic work, it was developed to give project- and professional level AV and PostPro studios an affordable way to free the main audio production hard- and software from the burden of in-sequencer videoplayback by passing that task to laptops or additional machines that may stand around unused.
As more and more tone generation and audio processing is performed by plugins and virtual instruments, the deployment cycles of DAW PCs seem to become shorter and shorter. ChainGang potentially can help you squeeze another year out of your hardware by offloading video to a secondary computer for just fractions of the costs of an all new system.
Besides its primary purpose ChainGang presents a simple way to do synchronized multiscreen video installations or timecode synchronous teleprompting.
ChainGang is available for Windows and costs only 59,- Euro per license (online price, when purchased via PayPal)
Features:
- Plays and syncs all video formats Quicktime supports
- Windowed or fullscreen video playback with optional & size adjustable onscreen timecode display.
- Adjustable frameoffset in both positive and negative direction. Absolute offsetting up to 24h
- Optional Midi through
- Optional full frame position Midi out on manual seeks to reposition the master sequencer from the video slave.
- May send and read MIDI Machine Control (MMC)
- Optional synchronized audioplayback
- Automatic timecode vs.video framerate check with visual feedback.
- Full Quicktime export functionality to eventually adjust media to hardware capabilities. (no Quicktime Pro key required)
- Total recall operation. The program remembers all its operating parameters and restarts in the way you have last shut it down, thus freeing you from the need to load setups or adjust parameters over and over again in daily production work (setups can be saved and restored, too).
- Virtual 00:00:00.00 frames. An unlimited number of virtual zero frames allow to split audio work into multiple projects.
- Import audio, save & export movies for quick demoing or any other reason.
- detailed MIDI monitoring facility.
- Selectable display adapter for fullscreen mode
- Support for 24p / 23.976 fps NTSC movies
- Supports Quicktime Video Output Components for hardware playout to Blackmagic Decklink & eq. boards.
- Minimal GUI / always on top option
- Built-in ethernet MIDI system.
- Recent file history to quickly recall setups.
- May act as a timecode master in MMC loop setups.
- Frameoffset routeable to MTC & MMC or MTC only
- Offset learn mode to map any videoframe to any incoming timecode value.
- License may be stored on USB stick, allowing you to run the program on multiple machines.
New in version 1.3.4
- Folder / batch import option
- Support for aperture and user-defined scaling
- New IP-MIDI system, compatible w/ OS X Network MIDI or its Windows equivalent rtpMIDI as well as ipMIDI
Additional reading:
To view the ChainGang manual including sequencer "how to"s, click here.
Some FAQs are answered here
System requirements:
ChainGang will work on any decent PC, running 32 or 64bit versions of Windows XP, Vista or Seven. A 32bit Java Runtime Environment version >= 1.5 and Quicktime 7 need to be installed.
External or internal MIDI Interface hardware needs to be present to connect to the timecode master (Most Midi via IP solutions work as well). The maximum size and quality of smoothly playable video depends on computer hardware.
Demo limitations:
In demo mode ChainGang will break incoming MIDI and fullscreen display every 20 minutes and shut down after an hour. Fullscreen display will not hide the mouse pointer and show a humatic logo in an eventual letterbox.
Purchsing ChainGang:
ChainGang uses a challenge / response system for authorization, so in order to buy an unlock code you need the challenge code that the software generates on the computer you want to run it on.
The first step to purchase therefore will always be installing the trial version. We encourage you to thoroughly test the software during the 14 day trial period. After this period expires, ChainGang will prompt you with a "buy or die" dialog
(Should you decide to purchase before the trial period expires, open the "register" tab in the software's setup window and click "register now"). In said dialog click the "buy" button and ChainGang will generate the challenge code and offer to connect to either
PayPal or ShareIT through your browser.
If your computer is not online or you do not want ChainGang to launch your browser, cancel that dialog and select your preferred payment method here:
Buy via
 | for Euro | 59,- |
This is the cheapest option. Using it, ChainGang retails for
Euro 59,- including taxes, but you need a PayPal account for it (if you have, then you can also use your credit card on PayPal).
You will be registered as a ChainGang user - entitled for software and code updates - on our website during the payment process. Please make sure you read the "Purchasing ChainGang"
paragraph above and have your challenge code ready. [ go ]
If you want to pay by credit card, bank transmission or most other common payment methods, you can
Buy via
 | for Euro | 65,- |
Using this method, ChainGang costs Euro 65,- including taxes.
You will be registered as a ChainGang user - entitled for software and code updates - during the payment process on the ShareIT website. Please make sure you read the "Purchasing ChainGang"
paragraph above and have your challenge code ready. [ go ]
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