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Hi all,<br>
<br>
We had our get together tonight - Tim B, Jason N and me. We found
the oldest two PC we had were dead - so we salvaged parts and have
disposed of them. We are still lacking a PCI or PCI-E video card for
the donated AMD motherboard, but we now have an HDD in it (from one
of the dead machines). We also have two spare firewire cards too
(and a few 100 MBit network cards).<br>
<br>
AV1, the black box, seemed to not work with headphones/mic. Needs
some more work. AV3 (small white box) worked well after Jason fixed
the audio. We also tried streaming TWO feeds from the same host -
one with the video camera, and one with the Twinpact - but this was
still causing lock ups like we experienced a month ago at
Artifactory. Indeed, just having two devices plugged in, starting
the grab - which hangs trying to start capture - and then unplug one
DV device - and magically the capture commences for the remaining
device.<br>
<br>
We discussed the pending doom of firewire, and we're thinking more
along the lines of HDMI capture from more recent HDMI cameras; so
the Black magic device (Intesnity Pro) that Nick pointed out on Apr
21 may be the trick
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/models/">http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/models/</a>). But
we don't know if that works, and which cameras support live video
over HDMI versus only transferring already recorded stuff, nor what
load downscaling from HDMI to DV will put on the camera capture
boxes - or if we start to capture at Full HD, mix at Full HD, and
then downsample during encoding.<br>
<br>
So stuff we're still missing in the short term is a second camera to
borrow, a second tripod to borrow, and a fast quite desktop to
encode with.<br>
<br>
Longer term, we started thinking of what we should put on the grant
for doing the one-room solution:<br>
<ul>
<li>3 x video cameras, potentially HDMI based if we can't get DV</li>
<li>3 x HDMI capture devices/cards</li>
<li>3 x tripods (no discussion on what ones)</li>
<li>4 x wireless lapel mics (so we can do panel sessions)</li>
<li>4 x wired, balanced mics </li>
<li>4 x USB XLR inputs</li>
<li>2 x wireless mics</li>
</ul>
<br>
So now we need to put models and prices against this. Anyone got
recommendations? For USB XLR - there's Blue Icicle at around $35
each, and MXL USB Mic Mate (Classic/Pro) around $40 each. As to
radio mics - we have one now, but that model can only have two
channels. What about a four person panel - wired or wireless mics?
The sooner we can decide on this, the sooner we get a grant request
in.<br>
<br>
<br>
JEB<br>
<br>
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