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2nd December 2008, 05:44 PM
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mac book as mixer?
Hey just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to use a computer as a mixer?!
Me and my friend where pondering it the other day... would it be possible to connect two mac books up through an other mac book and use that as a vision mixer... we where thinking maybe some clever person could work out a MAX patch to make this work?? but we don't know how to use MAX! any thoughts? 
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3rd December 2008, 12:59 PM
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It has been done using Isadora and Quartz Composer. You could probably knock one up with quartz but I have no idea how good it'll be.
If your using a macbook then your going to need a USB capture device because there is only 1 FW port. Look Here
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3rd December 2008, 07:05 PM
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if you're using a NEW macbook (non-pro) you don't even have ONE firewire port...
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4th December 2008, 03:45 PM
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there was a thread somewhere about using eyetv to feed one input into another laptop, i can't remember the answer but someone suggested a better default system method i think
have a search 
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4th December 2008, 03:59 PM
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Old MBPro + EX34 3 port FW card
Won't be stable, reliable or free of frame drops though...
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4th December 2008, 05:06 PM
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Why bother? A video mixer will be cheaper. Were you just wondering if it was possible or do you have 3 laptops and trying to use what you already have/have something specific in mind?
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5th December 2008, 01:03 PM
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Well, I guess a cheap used mixer like an ave5 will be cheaper than two good capture dongles...
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#9
5th December 2008, 02:47 PM
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Having a computer mixing is an option but not a solution.
Is better to have 2 computers and one V4, and one of the copmputers capturing the video signal of the other computer. If you mix from one computer it would be slow and it will look bad for so many on the fly recompresion.
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#10
5th December 2008, 04:31 PM
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As long as you have a video input in one of the mac books, you can use a number of VJ softs to do the mixing no problem..
the big problem is if your mac books lock up, you loose your video mix..
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