evolt Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hey guys I have a question in capturing in Final Cut. Our church will be using 3 cameras, how can I capture all 3 inputs on the fly? Is there some type of capture deck or should I just capture them on tape? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hey guys I have a question in capturing in Final Cut. Our church will be using 3 cameras, how can I capture all 3 inputs on the fly? Is there some type of capture deck or should I just capture them on tape? Thanks I doubt it. Perhaps with the universal version, but not sure how well it will run just yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evolt Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 I doubt it. Perhaps with the universal version, but not sure how well it will run just yet.... So even with a G5 it won't be possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phi Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 I don't know absolut exactly, but i would say that this is not possible by design. There will be extra hardware for capturing 3 cameras on the fly but it will cost something. By the way the hard drive performance will be the bottleneck anyway while capturing 3 DV-Streams. For this stuff you'll need a performant RAID subsystem, which will cost anyway. The most effective way will be to capture on DV tape and do postprocessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evolt Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 I don't know absolut exactly, but i would say that this is not possible by design. There will be extra hardware for capturing 3 cameras on the fly but it will cost something. By the way the hard drive performance will be the bottleneck anyway while capturing 3 DV-Streams. For this stuff you'll need a performant RAID subsystem, which will cost anyway. The most effective way will be to capture on DV tape and do postprocessing. It sure does sound expensive. I guess I'll just use a switcher for the 3 feeds and mix them on the fly and do 1 capture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 It sure does sound expensive. I guess I'll just use a switcher for the 3 feeds and mix them on the fly and do 1 capture If you are working on a mac, there is a possibility. I heard of a feature, that I have not used yet, in FCP that allows you to edit on the fly with multiple cameras. You may need extra hardware however. I would look that up online in other FCP forum places. When you asked your question, naturally I thought it would be on an osx86 system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddicus Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 there is no way yet to capture mulitple streams at once. (not without significan't additional hardware and software) the FCP feature is called multiclip. It's great, I use it all the time. To use it you would roll tapes in all three of your cameras and then capture each separately. Sync them in a timeline and create a 'multiclip' you can then play back this clip and view all 3 angles at once, clicking to choose the active angle in the edit. Essentially multicamera editing in real time, very handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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