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  Blackmagic On-air for 3D stereo recording

  Posted by Anmol Mishra on July 21, 2008 at 2:25 am

  I have 2 Intensity cards but I’m using a Windows box. So I cannot use On-Air.
  My question is :-
  If I buy a MacPro and plugin my 2x Intensity cards, can I then using On-Air to record the 3 HDMI streams SIMULTANEOUSLY for 3D recording. On-Air is also advertised to have auto frame sync – which seems to be a software genlock..

  Would love to hear comments from people who have tried this..

  Anmol Mishra replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joshua Helling

  July 30, 2008 at 5:48 pm

  The On-Air software will only capture one stream.

  It will take one input from each card and allow you to choose which stream you want during capture. So an example would be: You have an input into each intensity (so two) and both inputs will show in the display app. You can then choose to capture and the stream that is selected will be captured. Then during the capture you can toggle to the other stream and record that into the same file.

  So at the end of the capture you will have one file and it will contain data from the streams that were selected at the time.

  Does that make sense?

  If you need something to capture more streams then you will need to find an application that can support multiple Direct Show/Quicktime boards. Or if you know someone they can write the app with our SDK (but that is generally beyond most peoples means).

  I hope that helps clarify

  Sincerely,

  Joshua
  Director of Support
  Blackmagic Design Inc.
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  Anmol Mishra

  July 30, 2008 at 11:38 pm

  Thanks for the explanation. I had thought this would be the case but I was hoping I was wrong.

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