There have been commercial products(made in china) that do very good motion tracking combining IR lights, motion sensors and a camera and a computer. You have most likely seen a pond projected on the floor where you can scare swimming fish by walking through it and reveal an advertisement.

I switch between an Apple Magic Mouse and a Wacom Intuos tablet depending on what mood my wrist is in.

A little update. I contacted the CL folks and it would appear that their platform driver will only support a single camera, even if you have purchased the multi-cam licence. The licence enables multi-cam use with their api.

"You would have to code an application with our API which either directly communicates the video data to the app or uses something like directshow pipeline which may already be supported in the app." Has anyone tackled this at all or would anyone have any input on how I might be able to tackle this? Thanks, - J

@olialonso,

Well, hmmmm. That's strange. I'll check with some other HID devices on the PC later this week. Can you file a proper bug report using the **[Bug Report/Feature Request FORM](http://troikatronix.com/support/isadora/ "opens a new window") **so I won't lose track of this? Best Wishes, Mark 

Okay, so the new Kinect looks amazing, but it's got a proprietary connection that even the support guy I talked to doesn't know what is, after he investigated further. It comes with a 3 meter cable but no option to extend it. The kinect also can't be bought separately. So it renders it pretty useless for any theatrical work, as there's no way for the kinect to be controlled from the booth, or even connect to a computer in the first place... maybe there'll be some workarounds in the future, but in the meantime...

Here's a link to the abilities of the Kinect: http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-one-s-kinect-can-t-see-you-naked-says-microsoft-266169.phtml

Dear DJProvost,

I think you can go with the PC, with these caveats: 1) Performance is much better with WMV/AVI movies than with Quicktime Movies. These movies are however limited by these factors: They can't play backwards Scrubbbing them (using the position input) is very glitchy These are limitations of the Windows OS "DirectShow" system. If you're just doing standard playback, these factors aren't an issue. But I wanted to mention it. Regarding the CI actors, FreeFrameGL support is coming very soon, along with a host of new features. That will give you the performance of the CI actors on Windows. So, with that in mind, I would say you can work on a PC. Best Wishes, Mark

The only way to get 4 outputs from a MacBook Air is with a Datapath x4 or equivalent. That's a very expensive solution though.

No rs232 but a very simple Arduino sketch will do, take the ethernet model and you can have it with OSC.

• Remote Control You can control the SEQUENCE, MULTISCREEN/QUAD SHIFT, and the camera selection buttons from a remote con- troller. These functions are activated by contact with the ground terminal (open collector output or normally open con- tact). • Connect the ALARM/REMOTE connector (pin 23) to the ground terminal as shown below. Switches 1 - 16 select the cameras (they do not control the alarm input). Notes: • Any two or more switches closed at the same time will cause this unit to malfunction. • SEQUENCE is assigned to switch 17 and MULTISCREEN/QUAD SHIFT to switch 18. • When no operation is taking place, all switches except switch 19 must be open as shown below

Hello MemoryGauze,

I am often trying to record the outputs from performance software for production and have tested many options. I have found that MatthewH's method of using your graphics card out works very well. The BMD HDMI to SDI converted is a good option. I use the HDMI IN on a BMD Hyperdeck Shuttle. It works well as long as your graphics card will support 29.97, 23.976, or 59.94 fps (Hz) output. - Justin

Great! Thank you..!

try something like this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CCTV-Security-Camera-HD-SDI-1080P-2-1M-Panasonic-CMOS-Color-Box-High-Resolution-/221121329400?pt=US_Security_Cameras&hash=item337bdbb8f8

just saw this

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1707?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I recently went to switch my capture setup to 1080p25, I had not really checked it out recently, I was pretty surprised to see no option for grabbing at this rate, I was coding with qtkit and quicktime grabbers. I did see some progressive settings but only for 23.976 and 24 framerates. After a little tinkering I tried it with avfoundation and sure enough I get access to all the supported rates of the card.

There is a thread on the forum here about this but it is not resolved with a firmware update and it is nothing to do with blackmagic per se it is just a problem with software using outdated capture libraries. http://troikatronix.com/troikatronixforum/discussion/comment/5268#Comment_5268 I had a further tinker and found that although I could get the input with avfoundation, using the blackmagic SDK directly gave me total control over the input preset (if you have a card with multiple types of hardware input you can also set that from the SDK which is pretty handy). The blackmagic SDK also gives me much much less latency around a frame I think to get the image on my laptop screen in 1080p as well as what I think is better quality colour space conversion. Those of you looking to get the 1080p functions working in Isadora will not be able to unless you use the SDK (someone can make an Isadora plugin for it) or if Isadora changes to a more up to date capture library. I believe gstreamer is looking like a good cross platform option for other coders.

Check this thread

http://troikatronix.com/troikatronixforum/discussion/1062/blackmagic-capture If you really need it and think it is worth the overhead I can make a 1080p blackmagic to syphon app to bridge the gap, firmware update will not get you anywhere.

Good choice. Its a better all-round card. Nvidia's GPU technology is used with a variety of video post production software from all of the Adobe CS products to AVID Media Composer to Davinci Resolve. In my experience, the hot game cards (like your 680) work very well.

thank you Michel,

the update solved the problem! Video Input works now! Greets, chris.

Hi everybody

Actually I am using Isadora connecting my videocamera to an Canopus AV/DV interface via the firewire port. But the point is that I want to ad more cameras to Isadora. I don't need necessarily to work with HD, for me it's ok with PAL resolution but I am not sure if the av/usb converters work fine. I read in a previous discussion that I only can  use usb recorders compatibles with video glide driver. Am I right? There is any list of recommended USB recorders to connect my camera with out need of using the video glide driver? On the other hand. Is it possible to connect 2 different cameras in the same firewire port using a firewire hub? And finally do you know any cheap video composite video switcher to connect multiple cameras? The point is that with the one that I am using now there is a black gap of about 1 second each time hat I switch the camera input. By the way, I have this switcher connected to the Canopus. Thanks in advance

Mac, PC?

What specs are you after? SD/HD? 

I am currently in the process of figuring out a spec for a similar system. Will post more as I figure out how to reduce latency with the right hardware.

I don't think so... not yet anyway!