[Roy Mckenzie]

I probably won’t. I can’t believe I didn’t try this sooner but the work around is to take the opacity to zero on the face and leave it active. Shutting the face off causes the problem.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

It was the phong tag, funny I was trying to mess with that. I had the angle set to “0” so I could get the hard surfaces. I come out about as good with it gone though, so many thanks!

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

Seems to be working well with a newer iMac. Perfect 30FPS and I even added a third output to a lower rez h.264 and no problem there. Seems like the solution is to have a newer/newest mac you can get.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

Thanks ya I have seen them. This company is good too, they also have h.264 proxy recorders that auto increment for some cameras.

https://www.vitec.com/

The point is to have this be in one system and have the capability to create a program record like wirecast does and increment the records with that one record button. I might need to run it on a mac pro or it might not be there yet.

You know some older mac minis had h.264 hardware acceleration, there where a couple usb dongles on the market a one time that did it as well. I know that the h.264 is causing overhead problems in the program. If you look at the way it functions in the activity monitor there is significant overhead just to display the video in the record monitor, even before you ever pull the trigger on the record.

I think they should sell a hardware acceleration option that gives you some thunderbolt outputs and maybe some control interface like livestreams pro configurations. I would go in that direction, but I don’t like PCs I only keep one around for emergencies.

Transcoding the h.264 causes more overhead then the pro rez. What is interesting is that the processor/system utilization is lower with the pro rez only capture, but it still seems to waffle off of 30fps. And it’s not like it is just frame rates changing as it plays back, it shows a constant rate of less then 29fps in quicktime 7 info window.

I have tried it on a couple of different macs with good iCore 7 processors. Maybe they designed it for more acceleration in mavericks and I have to upgrade. I might try it on one of the iMacs we just bought with mavericks. All I know now is that the telestream techs have responded with hardrive speed questions after I told them my full configuration. Pretty sure I’m all set there.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

This is going to be the new system for acquisition at our shows. Additionally we need real-time h.264 to upload to a online service with in 24hrs. In general it would be nice to have the two formats one hr (pro rez) to edit and one low rez (h264). Every client asks for the web movies and it is a pain to break them up and compress them every time. If we can have a tech hit the record button every time the keynote is on/of the stage it would save a huge amount of time and head ache.

I could get strictly a capture solution, but this software is nice cause it allows us to mix slides and create a program in real-time with out an expensive video switching setup.

I guess it might not be there yet, I did file a pre-slaes question with telestream.

You know it’s funny I used to do this at Raytheon with windows Media Encoder, seven years ago, and media encoder could push two records and a stream, minus the switching of course.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

You would agree that I am running this on a fast enough configuration though correct?

I was set to 29.97 I can’t get a constant of more then 26fps. I shut off the thumbnails to reduce over head. Are you capturing two movies file like I am?

Am I doing something wrong or have I missed a setting? I’m pretty well versed in the video/computer engineering universe, I just opened this app a week ago and started going to town, so I may have missed something.

thx

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

Probably should have mentioned I am on mac, so I’m looking for mac solutions.

I didn’t list my specs, but I am running it on a pretty beefy iMac 3.2Ghz iCore 7 16GB ram OSX 10.8.x VRAM @ 2048MB on a Radon 6970M gpu

Capturing HDMI from a blackmagic mini recorder connected via thunderbolt and an IP presenter running a PPT loop on a machine, wired with gig Ethernet(all wired gig Ethernet).

Capturing to a thunderbolt raid.

I would say I have exceeded the minimum requirements. What is interesting is the mention of the frame rate variation. That is exactly what I am seeing and it scares me. I want frame accurate pro rez movies and I know this capture device, computer and harddrive configuration can handle that requirement. Yet here I am, it starts out capturing 30FPS then varies.

I have tried just capturing one pro rez and I have tried capturing(recording) one h.264. I have tried capturing both at the same time, in every instance I can not get 30fps and video seems a little choppy(very little). It needs to work perfect.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

I was. It just seems like there is a lot of rendering for nuthn. I reproduced what you described withw the 8 tracks and a song at 44.1 and added a compressor, 3band equalizer echo and sample delay (just picked two more randomly) and I still at real time (no render needed).

Not for nuthn cause this is really unrelated to your problem, but did you boost up your real-time audio track in the preferences? I saw your machine specs in your profile. It’s fast enough.

What I am saying is, maybe you won’t have this problem if you dont have to render audio in the first place.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

no worries. I wish i had more time to post help on these kinda places.

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Roy

[Roy Mckenzie]

Boost you realtime tracks up to 99 in your preferences. What are you using a g4? I rarely have to render audio track with filters and i have had 20++ layers of audio w/ filters.

Did the offline re-link thing work.

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Roy