[Will Standley]

Gary,

I’ve talked to the guy at Scenalyzer via email and he sees no reason it wouldn’t work.

I was hoping to find someone who had actually done it and see how much computer they had to use and what configuration.

Somewhere along the line I picked up that using a separate firewire card for each computer is the way to go and it makes sense to me. Each card probably converts the serial data to parallel data and then signals the processor to come and get it. And, quite possibly the firewire card has some buffering/memory onboard which would further reduce demands on the processor.

I also heard that it is better to save the video on a disk other than the one the Operating System and Capture program reside… again this makes sense as it would mean the disk saving the video data would have no other job to do… thus reducing demands on it.

If anyone has actually tried this or has additional thoughts on it let me know. We are probably going to try it in the next couple of weeks when we can get some time to set it up.

Will

[Will Standley]

Kevin,

Are you capturing all 4 cams in real time to your PC system?

We hope to set up a 4 to 6 cam real time capture system and have looked a a couple of ways of doing it…

1 – Special live-capture HD like the PyroDV Drive or the FireStoe FS-4
2 – Long Firewire cables to one computer per cam… either PC Laptops, Desktops or possibly Mini Mac’s
3 – Multiple Firewire cards in a single computer… 1 card per cam… capturing to one or more disk… disk other than the one running the operating system

How did you do it and how did it work?

thanks for any comments.

[Will Standley]

Thanks Zip.

Anymore suggests will be considered.

thanks to everybody for the help.

[Will Standley]

Where do I look up what freq’s are available in my area?

I’m not sure what freq the UHF wireless mic’s use.

Do they share with UHF TV or what?

And, I decided on UHF over VHF because I was worried about 1) interference and 2) interference because we may be using 4 to 6 wireless mic’s at once in the same studio.

thanks for any additional comments.