Canopus ADVC-HD50

[samsc]

Hello

Anybody knows if this HD card is recognized by the latest catalyst?
Might be an interesting solution for displaying ppt etc in catalyst.

Gilles

In 'theory' - so long as you have the mac drivers (if any) you should be able to capture video via firewire, in the same way you might connect a firewire video camera...

no,

hdv cameras are not supported as video digitiser inputs.

The Thomson Grass Valley ADVC-HD50 converter lets you instantly convert uncompressed HD video and audio from HDMI devices to the HDV format

hdv is an mpeg2 format - its used by hidef cameras to get the same bit rate onto a mini-dv tape.

as its mpeg2 - with ibp frames - latency would be horrible - anyway - as the data can only be decoded when all the frames in a group have been transferred. this is up to 18 frames with hdv ( as far as i can remember )
dv does not use interframe compression - hdv does.

[SourceChild]

I know you probably won't like this suggestion but the best way to input DVI, HDMI, or anything else into Catalyst is to use an HD-SDI capture card. I am using a Decklink HD-SDI card until the Active Silicon HD-SDI cards are out and working well. I also have a DVI to HD-SDI converter and a VGA to SDI converter.

The Decklink card is about $1k US
The DVI to HD-SDI was about $1k US
The VGA to HD-SDI was about $600 US

There are comparable HDMI to HD-SDI converters but whatever the case, expect to spend about $2k US for them. (Probably not the news you want to hear).

[gillekes]

I know you probably won't like this suggestion but the best way to input DVI, HDMI, or anything else into Catalyst is to use an HD-SDI capture card. I am using a Decklink HD-SDI card until the Active Silicon HD-SDI cards are out and working well. I also have a DVI to HD-SDI converter and a VGA to SDI converter.

The Decklink card is about $1k US
The DVI to HD-SDI was about $1k US
The VGA to HD-SDI was about $600 US

There are comparable HDMI to HD-SDI converters but whatever the case, expect to spend about $2k US for them. (Probably not the news you want to hear).

I'm allways open to any sugestion. And this seems a good solution. I thought things would be more expensive using HD SDI.
Thanks for you're advice

Greetz Gilles