[Rico Mok]

oh thanks for you info, but I have checked tricaster do not support HD in put, the reason we want to use wirecast is that they can record a HD copy for archive.

[Rico Mok]

thanks for you quick reply, First of all if the AJA need to be switched in its own control panel, that would won’t quite work for our purpose. But i have seen both Black-magic design, and AJA had made some hd-sdi input cards, on wirecast site it even said it supports it, but i cant find any information regarding to these product in conjunction with wirecast.

I am just curious, how can you afford that AJA but not a tricaster dont they cost about the same, and also i do not really want to use tricaster because i think it does not have hd-sdi and only s-video, we want to achieve a full HD workflow.

Thanks

[Rico Mok]

Dear all,

First of all I want to thank both of you two for all the post it help me allot, .

But i want to ask a few question regarding wirecast and a live shoot set up, at the moment, our school is setting up a live streaming project, mainly for sport and special events, and also we wanted a full HD work flow, the HD version will be saved locally and also sending a stream out with wirecast.

Here are the few problem that i am running into. we are currently planing to have a 4 hdv cam including two which has hd/sdi setup, but our main challenge is to get all these 4 cams connected to our main controlling MACPRO, hence we are setting it up on a football field and a large gym. using firewire is just not ideal, hence we need allot of repeater and also the wiring need to be underground so in this case it wont work.

So here my solution which i do not know will it work or not, for the first 2 to cam, Canon’s G1, with hd/sdi will be connected to a hd/sdi pci-e card, but as some member in the wirecast forum has mention they are having a trouble to do so. I am hoping they will fix it soon, or i need a workaround, as I heard you guys are using the AJA convertor box, it sound quite interesting but then it again introduce new problem, first of all as you had said, it creates a 2 sec dely would this mean it wont be in sync for my other 2 firewire cam connected, also will wirecast recognize 2 input from the single firewire which is outputting from the AJA when 2 HD/sdi is connected.

Hence this AJA is a very powerful and yet expensive is there a cheaper product that will simply feed the input instead of doing all the compression which the AJA is made for. and for the other 2 cam it will be the consumer HDV shooting wide, for those cam i am planning to use a firewire to fiber optics converter box, i have tired search google, but there dont seems to be answer whether it will work or not.

or is there other easier and cheaper solution.

Thanks Billy