[Jeffrey Morrison]

Hiya Randy,

Having a little bit of experiance with Black Magic capture and ultrascope, I would suggest you not expect to have 8 ever working in a single machine. cant see the benifit to having them all crash at the same time….

considering that these units are available in 3 interface types it is possible to spread the magic out across your PC buss.

USB 3.0 , Thunderbolt ( firewire ) and PCI.e

question is whats coming in, whats going out and what software your going to use.

currently a few third parties have some Quad capture software working, so says the rumer mill…..

Media Express is sapose to allow 4 ittirations of the software but you cant resize the screens to get them all to fit on a desktop unless you have some serious monitor realestate.

HD 60 frames is going to directly relate to buss traffic so if your using HDMI on all these units as an input you have a big list of goodies to buy. you would need several Raid drives spanned on one channel for each unit to capture too as depending on your software it could be uncompressed AVI

if your just doing composite cams to a web stream things are more simple. but at that point you have many other options besides BMD as well.

so for anyone to really help you with a valid answer and a direction to go for you to persue, you would need to give more detail as to the application, your formats and your output.. and weither you expect to record this or not.

[Jeffrey Morrison]

bob,

what other capture software works with the atem usb 3.0 ?

also, whats the best editing option for the formats given by the included capture software, the file is very large in my case since im only using SD 720X480