capture multiple dv streams?

[Shane Ross]

With a laptop? No.

With a couple G5s, RAID array, capture cards and SAN network…yes.

http://www.pictureready.com

Normally FCP captures one feed of video at a time. The above solution is the only way to do more than one.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Harald]

Hi Shane,

thanks for your reply.
but i’m talking about DV, not uncompressed.
i think a powerbook should be able to handle 2 streams of 3.6mb/sec each, or not?

best,
harald

[Andy Mees]

create 2 instances of QT Player
launch them both
for each instance of the player select theQuickTime Player > Preferences (Cmd comma) and under the “Recording” section choose your Video and Audio source, then when you’re all set up, choose “New Movie Recording” (Cmd Option N)

good luck (you’ll probably need it)

[Andy Mees]

found the source for that tidbit … this was the thread on Apple’s Quicktime U2U suport forum recently: https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=573369&tstart=0
interesting experiment certainly, but hardly a realistic wotkflow.

although the specs and software that Shane suggested might be overkill for your project, you ought to budget for a second computer for capture (if you can’t buy one – or borrow one – you can always rent one)

cheers
Andy

[Peter Wiggins]

This is a really cool way to do it, not on a laptop though
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/multibridge/on-air/

Peter

Free Motion Templates

https://www.peterwiggins.com

[Harald]

alright, thank you!