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I think it would be more for HD3.

You can do capture with HD2 over HDMI but you get data overlay and about 28-29fps and decent few frame delay. I use MXO2 Mini set 1080p **8bit** YUV

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@lpearse -- good to hear you've had such success with it! I'll let my buddy know that he may be making some rookie mistakes... definitely makes me want to try it myself!

I think latency would change quite a lot depending on the hardware used for capture.

It's how it goes for SD so...

Mehdi

 But is summarily gets rid of that foolish white square.

I have been using the canon HV series of cameras, they are pretty ood quality and very cheap and reliable. You get reasonable control and manual settings and a live low latency full frame HDMI out.

Fred

Good luck getting Izzy to up the FPS! Should work once you encode -- otherwise something else is probably going on. 

Canon T3i

Blackmagic Intensity Extreme

Thunderbolt Display + 2.5 Ghz i5 Mac Mini (base stock model)

Beamer

Isadora picks up a full 1080p image from the T3i + Intensity. The image quality is _fantastic_ and I'm holding a steady 28-30 fps. However, it's covered with focus boxes and details, which you have to crop out.

The _eventual_ plan is to build around a 2.7 Ghz 16 GB rMPB, capturing from a Blackmagic Cinema Camera (a colleague of mine has one on order -- can't wait to test it!). I'm wondering if a triplehead will accept a HDMI=>DVI signal from the reMPB? 

I'm working in the space until Friday, any suggestions as to things I should be watching out for or trying? I'm a *relative* newbie with Izzy, so I'm not sure if I might have mucked up the settings and I'm somehow getting away with murder here: for some reason 1080p video pre-recorded on the T3i imported into Isadora and played through the Movie Player stutters along at 10 fps...

One thing we are looking at developing is an Izzy station with live HD cameras and a HD TV rotated 90 degrees. A 'mirror' interactive installation on a mac mini if only one output, but might be doing multiple mirrors -- so trying to figure out what's the best way to do it. One Mac Pro with a quad card and max'd ram and SSDs or a Master and some slaves. Or 1-to-1 chained over LAN. It seems like HD is a new frontier for Izzy so it seems we need to try alllllll the options and the MBPr as the soul machine or the Master machine seems like a good starting point. 

MP stands for Mac Pro ! !

Out of curiosity what is the "MP" part of this 

"It might be good to input all feeds via a MBPr and output through MPs" ?

I can also output via the HDMI or get a USB3 to DVI adapter (anyone had success with those?)-- but right now I'm hoping to just push the FX and inputs to the limit and figure out how to output as possible. 

Starting with a 1x1 config is a good starting to point. It might be good to input all feeds via a MBPr and output through MPs, for example. 

Some beamers we're working with: Sanyo XF-46N, Barco CLM-HD8, BenQ MP776ST some random Canon and Mistus as well as some LCDs (3D and reg HD). 

Right now we are trying to see "what's possible" with HD technology integrated into Isadora -- from single feed FX to 3 live feeds in 3D across 6 projectors! Experimentation!

If you are using a mac with 2 thunderbolt ports you may or may not get 2 inputs working, however unless you have the latest macbook pro retina (that has 2 thunderbolt ports and an HDMI port) you will not have any way to connect to a beamer if you use both thunderbolt ports. Again, like using multiple blackmagic capture cards it may work but it is not a supported configuration. 

Although the newest macbook pros do have USB3 blackmagic USB3 products are still windows 7 only, and they are very picky about their motherboards and controllers,

"USB 3.0\. Requires an x58 based motherboard with onboard USB 3.0, or a USB 3.0 PCI Express card and an x58 or P55 series motherboard. "

Anyway, if you start with a single blackmagic capture unit you will for sure be impressed with the results, getting your four output setup will be the net challenge, even though it is more expensive, sticking to supported configurations will make your life easier and leave more power in your system.

Out of curiosity what beamers or screens are you using?

Fred

The plan would be to test Performance with 1 live HD capture and go to town with it -- if it works out well -- then buy a second interface. 

The ATEM looks great but you'd still need a capture device for it to talk to Izzy ... unless you go USB 3.0 but that has its own set of limitations. Right? 

As for using 2 of these on a machine you will only get one on a mac mini as these devices do not have a thunderbolt pass through so they will have to be the last thing in your thunderbolt chain. Unless you go with the quad and use sdi you will be limited to one input per machine. I have heard stories of people with custom rigs using more than one blackmagic card but this is not supported and probably not worth the risk unless you are ready for some serious testing. Also dealing with multiple live HD inputs is not an easy task for any computer so make sure if you want to try you can test it out before you buy, it may well not be up to what you want it to do.

The tricaster is a pretty amazing machine but it will not work as you want, it is more of a mixer and production system replacement, getting 4 cameras to 4 screens will not really be possible as it uses virtual inputs and outputs. However if there was money for it I would always prefer a dedicated hardware solution. The blackmagi ATEM 2me will come closer, it has 6 SDI aux outputs along with the much more flexible main output. It may be worth looking into. I use the 1me and it is an amazing unit.

Fred