Thomas Leong
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“…what is the matter with good old fashioned tape?”
Perhaps for near fail-safe security where one has no second chance to record an event, I agree tape is safer than writing to hard-disk live, other things being equal (clogged recording heads, tape drop-outs, etc). But for those events where second chances are available, direct to disk does save substantial tape-to-disk transfer time almost equal to the duration of the recording session itself, assuming of course that any later editing is via NLE and not linear tape-based machines. Obviously, for added security, if the cameras have built-in tape recording mechanisms, these can be used as backups.
To each his own, and Tyler’s original post requested direct-to-disk capture for 3 cams in his studio.
Thomas
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Add a Firewire Booster/Repeater. Gefen has them.
Thomas
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Feeds were Firewire and composite from a DV camera and a satellite TV cable box. The free DVCapture utility from Canopus allows you to specify your inputs for each source : Firewire, composite, or S-Video.
I did it as a test to see how many streams my non-RAID 1.6GHz P4 with a Canopus DvStorm2 capture card and a cheap 3rd party Firewire card fared with the Canopus DVCapture utility. This was a few years ago.
However, some other Canopus DVStorm2 users appear to have successfully captured wedding recordings from 3 cameras at site.
Thomas
PS Apologies for the previous multiple posts, but the Cow site replied that I had to change my user name to post, neglecting to inform me that the post had been accepted. So I changed my user name be inserting a space between names.
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Possible direct to a pc, but with DV only, far as I know: 3 streams
Personally, I’ve done it with 2 streams uisng my DVStorm2 card and a firewire card. 3 was a bit beyond my system then.
Thomas Leong
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Possible direct to a pc, but with DV only, far as I know: 3 streams
Personally, I’ve done it with 2 streams uisng my DVStorm2 card and a firewire card. 3 was a bit beyond my system then.
Thomas Leong
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Possible direct to a pc, but with DV only, far as I know: 3 streams
Personally, I’ve done it with 2 streams uisng my DVStorm2 card and a firewire card. 3 was a bit beyond my system then.
Thomas Leong
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For suitability, I meant the cheaper ‘Advanced’ version, not the ‘Pro’ version.
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You may want to check out Wings Platinum 3. Demo download available.
There are various versions for single screen presentations, and there is a table comparing versions in the Help file – search for ‘versions’ first, then jump to ‘table’ which is linked from there.IMO, the most suitable for your intended use is the Pro version which has built-in Text support. However, its text functions are not as versatile as Powerpoint. An alternative is to create your text in Photoshop and import the .psd files into the Wings timeline where you can then manipulate to your desire. Alpha channel is supported for both stills and video files so exports from AE is fine for inclusion in your presentations.
Pause/Stop/Start markers are available and you may even export a completed presentation into an EXE file for presenting on a laptop not licenced to run Wings (Wings requires a USB dongle to run). The EXE file can include your pause/stop/start markers.
Thomas Leong
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ems-imagingElse, try googling for security surveillance solutions where I’m sure they have 4, 9 or 16 feeds to one mon.
Thomas Leong
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IMHO, you will have to pre-split with After Effects or equivalent for any movies that are expected to fill the 3328×768.
For the PiP Videos, WMVs are processor intensive, MPEG-2 less so, even at high datarates. The suggestion from Watchout’s Showroom forum is to encode as all I-frames with a GOP size = 1 at 12-15 MBit/sec, turn on sequence headers on every GOP, and de-interlace as part of your encoding process to end with a progressive MPEG-2.
If you need the alpha channel, then Quicktime Animation is the recommended codec.
ThomasLeong