I am going to be doing a show which uses a little bit of imag and a lot of playback. In the past, we have played back off of DV decks, but I would much rather use a media server to just play back clips, that way I know it will always work and play back on time.

My switcher is a ForA sdi switcher. I was wondering if I should go out of the switcher and go into the catalyst and just switch between the media and the input from the cameras when I need to. I am not sure of how much delay that would put in. Either way, it would work out to my advantage to do it that way because I am still going to have to use a converter to go from SDI to 5 wire to the projectors so the catalyst would just do that for me.

Or, would it be possible to rent a cat server with 2 of the decklink cards, and I can just run 2 of my sdi cameras straight into it? What would you recommend?