How about this one for VGA input?

[ping141]

http://www.epiphan.com/products/prod...1r2a0la4nb1fl4

As a way of getting those evercoming PowerPoint presentations into the system...

What do you think?

[samsc]

http://www.epiphan.com/products/prod...1r2a0la4nb1fl4

As a way of getting those evercoming PowerPoint presentations into the system...

What do you think?

gian in brazil used one - reported bugs in drivers - i think.

i dont have one.

try emailing him - member Gian.

[Marty Postma]

I have also found that USB capture devices (like the one mentioned above) do not work nearly as well as FireWire ones with Catalyst.

Also boxes like the one from Canopus can go as high as 1600x1200 resolution.

http://www.canopus.com/products/Twin...winPact100.php

BTW
Richard - how did your tests go with the Canopus Twin-Pact box?

[SourceChild]

The solutions I have for this are to use an HD SDI capture card from decklink. I then also have a DVI to HD-SDI converter so that I can take the DVI out from my computer and feed it into my Catalyst. The HD-SDI card is about $1200 USD and the DVI to HD-SDI converter is about $1200 also.

This is not the cheapest solution but better than USB or firewire and certainly cheaper than using an ImagePro.

Richard has been working on a new multi-input capture card prototype from Active Silicon. There is a thread started about it already. I would say that before buying the decklink, lets see how this new Active Silicon card works because it will have significantly less latency than the decklink card.

[ping141]

Is there a specific DVI -> HDSDI box you´d recommend?

[samsc]

Is there a specific DVI -> HDSDI box you´d recommend?

that is a big subject - and depends on cash you want to spend.

[Raggi di Luce]

I have also found that USB capture devices (like the one mentioned above) do not work nearly as well as FireWire ones with Catalyst.

Also boxes like the one from Canopus can go as high as 1600x1200 resolution.

http://www.canopus.com/products/Twin...winPact100.php

Just bought it from Apple Store 599 euro.
It's a magic box: RGB to DV, Analog to DV, DV to Analog and so on.
Tested up to 1600x1200 with a Flash animation. Good with videos.
But image comes more clear and sharp only up to 1280. Best is 1024 60Hz (to read small fonts, like PP presentations or similar.)
It has 2 points:
- cheap
- it's firewire in, so, using DV-Input, Decklink remains free for a camera or so on.

Stefano
Raggi di Luce srl

[samsc]

Just bought it from Apple Store 599 euro.
It's a magic box: RGB to DV, Analog to DV, DV to Analog and so on.
Tested up to 1600x1200 with a Flash animation. Good with videos.
But image comes more clear and sharp only up to 1280. Best is 1024 60Hz (to read small fonts, like PP presentations or similar.)
It has 2 points:
- cheap
- it's firewire in, so, using DV-Input, Decklink remains free for a camera or so on.

Stefano
Raggi di Luce srl

mary postma seemed to think this worked well.
think they have written a custom dv codec to improve image quality

[Gian]

I do have several of VGA / DVI capture ones,....

Matrox MXO, only works for MACs
Canopus

Most of them converts the signal to VIDEO, even to HD Video, still Video....
and is not good enouth for PPT presentations or so, only for big logos or caracteres.

Epiphan is the best quality so far, specialy because is what they call Frame Grabber... But yes the Drivers have some conflict with Catalyst. He only works if catalyst has the Input from Epiphan,... if not catalyst crashes.
So we are on a painfull job to unistall the driver when we use Catalyst without the Epiphan, and install the driver when we use the Epiphan, and open Cat only when we know for shure the Signal is coming in.

But is great quality, specially if you compare with other products.

[samsc]

what kindof frame rate do you get?

Did you use the 'compressed' mode?