FlipFlop is a small, free Mac OS X application designed to assist filmmakers with onset monitoring / previewing using a laptop and a firewire connected camera. The features came mostly from reading many peoples requests on various forums such as DVXUser and Redrock Micro.
Initially the basic app was aimed at a live video rotate to correct the inherent upside down, back-to-front image created by many 35mm adapters. From here it grew to include a few other features which seem to be relevant to the workflow.
Unfortunately there are no record features, this is purely a live preview application. I hope to add more useful features so let me know what you would want to see.
As of v1.0.6 most of the formats are working OK. 1080i60 and 720p60 do have some issues, but as I’m PAL based its hard for me to nail this down. DV and DVCPRO50 work the best as they are the least CPU / GPU intensive.