More than one video input via Firewire?
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sorry folks, just following up an old discussion. I've got a student who wants to plug two firewire cameras into Isadora for a live mix. I'm pretty sure the architecture only allows 1 camera per bus but wondered if recent Isadora versions have overcome this limitation?
Ideally I'd like to solve this without having to get too much extra hardware.
thanks,
Nic -
As far as I know, no. Firewire is also not so efficient you are better going with USB cameras, but ideally of a different make if you using more than 1 at the same time.
Best Michel
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Would a FW400 and a FW800 work? -
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I am trying to think really hard if I got it to work... I am 50:50. When I was lecturing at university I am sure we got more than one - but I can't remember the exact configuration.... Hmmmmm.
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I found this, it may work: https://www.boinx.com/connect/boinxtv/knowledge/video-sources/WS01337
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I do this with spare old MacBooks & Mac Minis. Each takes a camera input by FireWire and uses tcp-syphon to send to the master machine doing the mixing (my MBPro)... I presume the same is doable in PC land via Spout if you have access to old towers etc that could be run headless.
