• Avid Media Composer

  Multi camera DVCPRO HD 720

  Posted by Dennis Mcelroy on March 20, 2008 at 9:16 pm

  Can anyone tell me the minimum hardware requirements to be able to stream and view (4) cameras at once in a multigroup if the source material is DVCPro HD 720 coming of a P2 card.

  This will be coming directly off the P2 card. I have what I need to be able to view the 4 cams in the FCP world, not sure if it would be the same in AVID. Could a 2.5 Ghz processor with 4gb of ram and external esata storage hack that? Would much rather work on an AVID given the obvious multi-camera advantages within the software, but I’d rather put the AVID on a separate system/computer altogether and not have it battle my FCP setup which is being run on a 3.0 Ghz, 4gb ram 8 core mac pro.

  Thanks,

  Dennis

  Jon Zanone replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jon Zanone

  March 21, 2008 at 11:29 am

  Traditionally multicam is done at an ‘m’ resoulution. If you work at ‘m’ resolution, any ‘approved’ system will work fine. You can use higher resolutions, but you won’t get real-time playback. You’ll only be able to scrub through the footage.

  Jon

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