@Fred Thanks a lot for your answer, it's more clear to me now !

I will have a look on BM UltraStudio Express then, instead of Intensity family because SDI connectors can be useful thereafter. Thanks again. Best. Clement

Apologies I thought the video capture was also AVF.

Hi Sammy,
Can you drop a quick summary of your discoveries here, at the end of this post? Just to make it easier to people to grab the conclusion you came to.
I have also had excellent results with a 2012 Mac MIni outputting HDMI 3D video projections, (double-HD top/bottom video streams). When we initially researched the project, Apple infact advised us we couldnt get the results that we did in the end actually achieve from the mac mini. It was impressive. And affordable!
Jamie

Dear All,

If you download the 2.0 pre-release, it will solve this problem with retina Mac Book Pros and the internal camera. You can use the pre-release even if you haven't purchased the upgrade through our early adopters program -- you just won't have access to the 2.0 features. Best Wishes, Mark

Thank You guys - yes indeed the budget is the largest factor - 800€ for a mac mini was to much it has to be something like 500 - 600€...

it will run in a installation 10h/day -> 7 days/week and yes should be as much silence as possible...

i thought a shuttle pc with two graficcards and 1 ssd? - which graficcards? which motherboard / processor?
ciao Bodo

Dear @thesadfox,

This issue should be fixed in the pre-release. You don't need to have a 2.0 license to get at this fix, nor do you need to re-register. You just need to download the 2.0 version and install.

However for early adopters: if you see this, please wait for 2.0.0b3. There are several important fixes coming, and I'm building it right now. (3:18pm Berlin time, August 29)

Best,
Mark

@DMacur,

Well, not sure how this could have gone back to that old behavior, but please file a bug report and we'll get on it. Best Wishes, Mark

I have a Mac Pro 2013 (8 core / D700s) and have tested 6 x 1080 60p outputs using 5 x active single-link DVI adapters and the HDMI out (only had 5 adapters available). Single-link active adapters do not require USB power and can typically got for less than US$35, I have the Sapphire ones. Also waiting on some Startech DVI adapters (actually short cables) that are supposed to be Dual-link with out USB power for around the same price. Cheers Tom

@DusX

Thanks, but I already checked after reading your advice on the Spout forum. There's nothing I can do in my old yet up-to-date BIOS...

No problem.

thanks Jamie - that looks like a possibility. I wonder if its possible to use 6 in the same space as different devices....

john

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As far as I know there is no such thing as a thunderbolt hub and never will be. The architecture does not support it. There are thunderbolt breakout boxes that provide a monitor out, usb3 ethernet and other things depending on the model, but they are not hubs, they have a passthrough connection only.

I use a fireface, they are great, go for the UCX model, it allows OSC control of the hardware mixer as well as having eq and compression on the input (great for cleaning signals before they come into software without using plugins). The USB version also means you don't lose a thunderbolt port for a thunderbolt to firewire adaptor if you don't get a thunderbolt breakout with firewire. If you get a retina top of the line macbook you will have 2 thunderbolt ports and one HDMI, you can have 2 capture boxes (these do not have thunderbolt pass through) and still have a monitor out as well as having the laptop screen for a control screen. The thunderbolt breakouts have a thunderbolt pass through and allow a capture box (the blackmagic ones do not have pass through) and a monitor output from the same port. how many individual inputs and outputs do you want simultaneously? Do you use a triple head to go? I use enttec devices, I like them but I know there are cheaper dongles you can buy, somewhere on the forum there is a list I think? If you don't use a thunderbolt breakout box kannex has a USB3 ethernet adaptor that is gigabit, if you get a good USB3 hub you can have this and the fireface and a few other peripherals (not a kinect but a DMX out for sure) on the same USB port. Ethernet will be a lot better than wifi and the apple adaptors are not gigabit, only 10/100. As Isadora turns to GPU processing make sure you get the model with the best GFX card (the 2 gig is quite powerful). Overall the latency of thunderbolt is non existent, it is basically a PCI connection on a string, so dont worry, there is a lot of bandwidth. Fred

Hi Jamie - thank you for this - I developed this piece at Space studios in your workshop ... a while back and now it's time to realise it on a bigger scale!

My mixing desk is analog, and I would only have one mixed input into my laptop. Best wishes Rita

What USB3 controller do you have? I know there are quite a few chips that do not really support the full bandwidth. Are you using a laptop? Do you have access to a desktop machine with a separate usb3 PCIE card. For high bandwidth applications these seem to be the only useable devices. There is a pretty good list of USB3 laptops that have full bandwidth controllers here http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4277&p=148443&hilit=usb+3#p148443

It is for blackmagic compatibility, but the requirement is pretty simple, just full bandwidth and high performance. So far for me USB3 has been a little unreliable, (well not really but there are a lot of crappy controllers out there, including ones integrated into many motherboards. At any rate USB 3 has some pretty debilitating limitations on cable length (in my mind this kills the idea of a PTZ as you can only be a few meters away from the port for high bandwidth uses like HD video, as you could probably just reach and move the camera anyway). Take a look at something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/10x-Zoom-High-Speed-1080P-HD-SDI-PTZ-Dome-Camera-IR-60m-1-2-7-CMOS-Auto-Focus-/261447245257?pt=US_Security_Cameras&hash=item3cdf785dc9 It has a similar specs (possible the same sensor by the looks of it) and is HDSDI so easy cheap and long connections between camera and computer and SDi capture boxes are cheap.

Dear @designinmind08

I am not coding for any specific cards; I am really working with OpenGL/GPU related features in the most general way possible. Best Wishes, Mark

i'm a bit late to this thread, however with much interest i have caught up with it today.

in some older show control programmes the question of "where am i in the sequence?" was taken care of of "pozitracking" or "dynamic tracking". devices connected to a time line being synchronised to that timeline and where ever one went on the time line, all the devices would be updated to the new position. ( this was especially useful when working with handfuls of pvw beta sp decks. ) in this case there appears to be a need for the lighting board cue to contain a unique identifier for that cue that isadora can read and adjust the active scene to match the unique identifier. in isadora the "current scene number" actor can derive the isadora part of the logic sum. having a routine of comparing the incoming unique identifier with the current scene number can both advance and reset the position of isadora relative to the unique identifier from the lighting board.   (apologies if in this thread, other comments have suggested something similar and i've failed to see that.)

**6 x 720p synchronised...**

OK I have started testing after finally getting most components in... Getting decent constant sync playback for 6 x 720p @ 25fps. (1080 def not cracking it with my set-up... but most of the projectors are 1280 x 800 so why bother). I was considering using the 2 x Matrox Triple Head method as advised but budget was short and I wanted as few as possible external parts as the idea is to have a completely foolproof plug-and-play "black box".

**Solution was this:** PC with 3 x 64GB SSD, Win7 Pro, Izzy 1.3f24 2 x GeForce 640 (each with 2 x DVI and 1 x HDMI) All test movies rendered to 1280 x 720 Quicktime Prores 422 LT (about 40Mbps or 5MBps) 6 x stages, 6 x Movie Player Direct per scene playing out one to each stage All monitors and Isadora settings at 1280 x 720 Master player is the only one really playing, all other players' speed set to "0" and "position" out of master player plugged into "position" in of slaves. That last trick was what saved it... having all players actively playing was making everything a bit sluggish, with no chance of introducing a sync method without making it worse. Using the master player to "drag" the others along does the trick, and ensures sync with the sound (fortunately just one stereo track from the master). (doing this without setting the slaves' speed to "0" did not deliver good results) Performance sits at around 22fps clocked by Isadora, and setting the master player's speed to 1.02 seems to give correct 25fps playback - if frames are dropped it is unnoticeable. Tried a lot of formats before settling on Quicktime Prores 422 LT... nothing seems to play out better than that one, even on PC! ... and I think it plays nice with the sync. Thanks for all the advice, has been an interesting experiment so far... still to be completed. m

Dear @alex,

I do have something that will allow you to get the camera on the retina, but there are also several bugs associated with it. (E.g., you can't use more than one camera.) I am working on this and should have it in the next couple of weeks, but if you urgently need to get the FaceTime camera into Isadora, and are OK with working with a buggy version, please PM me and I'll send you a like. I don't want to put up this link publicly until I work out the bugs. Best Wishes, Mark

Ok cool - monoprice has some interesting hdmi-cat5 adapters around $40, there's a store here (lee's electronics) selling them in store.

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10110&cs_id=1011012&p_id=8121&seq=1&format=2