Posted by Mike Kujbida on 01/21/08 01:00

Sorry but that's absolute BS.
PCs are just as video-capable as a Mac.
The simple truth is that, short of hooking cameras up to a video
switcher that has these capabilities and feeding that to something like
a Canopus ADVC-100 and then to your computer, the Tricaster is the
simplest, smallest and cheapest solution out there on any platform.
If that sounds like I'm slamming the Mac platform, that's definitely not
true as I rent a Mac-based system (recording direct to a Lacie hard
drive through a Mac laptop running FCP) for my 3-camera portablre
shoots. To see the necessary hardware, look at the picture at
http://www.stclaircollege.ca/people/pages/mkujbida/

Mike


Population Stabilizer wrote:
> Thanks Jim, but that's not what I'm looking for. Maybe I'll check out my
> son's Mac Pro laptop, I read that Mac are more video orientated than PCs.
>
> "Jim" <jimmy AT hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4792452d$0$31791$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> "Population Stabilizer" <rockaway@prodigy.net> wrote in message
>> news:Ffokj.8221$pA7.151@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>>> Maybe it doesn't exist...yet, but is there any laptop computer that I
>>> have live video coming in, use multiple cameras, put titles on an overlay
>>> and insert prerecorded videos, record the finished product and then send
>>> it out via composite video cables?
>>>
>>> The reason I want to do this is that currently I am doing a live public
>>> access TV broadcast and want to spice it up with extras like videos and
>>> titles. I can now do this with a lot of old, bulky analog prosumer
>>> equipment, but am sure there should be something in a laptop that can do
>>> it easier. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Yes. It exists. Although it is not quite a laptop, it is a shoebox size
>> device.
>> Input cameras, switch, overlay grfx, use the live screen capture of
>> another computer as an input, roll b roll off of drive, send to external
>> HD, projectors, vid out and stream all at the same time.
>>
>> It's called the Tricaster by Newtek.
>> http://www.newtek.com/tricaster/
>> there are 3 versions
>> http://www.newtek.com/tricaster/compare.php
>>
>> Depending on where you are , Newtek may be coming in town to show it off.
>> http://www.newtek.com/redcarpettour/
>>
>>
>> There is also the Sony Anycast. Which is closer to laptop size, is missing
>> some features of the tricaster, but has some the TC doesn't. It is however
>> also quite a bit more expensive but does HD with the correct modules.
>> Tricaster. at this time, is SD only
>>
>> http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/minisites/anycast/anycastnew.shtml
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