Kevin Pease
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Haven’t purchased the Grass Valley piece yet. Pricey :/
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Thanks for the info. Sounds like I’m on the right track at least. If I actually get this to work, I’ll document my setup.
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Sorry but my iMac is a whole 1 year old with no Thunderbolt connection. Even if I had the connection, UStream wouldn’t be able to handle the HD stream. Too much data = choppy stream. Would need to downsample anyways. So the “natural” downsampling via Firewire may work to my advantage. Ya?
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I’m right there with you. Using the word “live” is extremely misleading for this product. I bought the ATEM from B&H hoping to use it for streaming live music performances via UStream. Thought I would be able to plug the ATEM into my computer via USB, plug in 4 HD cameras via HDMI, and “viola”, a really fancy switchable webcam. But NOPE. Now my 30 days to return the product to B&H is gone and I’m left searching for an HDMI to Firewire interface – which I found today for $650. So much for the $1,000 dream.
So anyways, if anyone is interested, here’s what I plan on doing… Any feedback is welcome! Still not 100% sure this will work.
3x Canon DSLR cameras (mini-HDMI out) into ATEM (HDMI in)
ATEM (Prog HDMI out) into Grass Valley ADVC-HD50 (HDMI in)
Grass Valley ADVC-HD50 (Firewire out) into iMac (Firewire in)I’m hoping UStream will recognize the Firewire input as a webcam and I can manage all the switching using the ATEM software. Only question now is “Will I be able to tell UStream to leverage Firewire for video and Built-in Input for audio?”
Here’s a link to the Grass Valley product: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/559115-REG/Grass_Valley_602227_ADVC_HD50_Real_Time_HDMI_to.html