Deck Link simultaneous recording, 30 camera rig
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:31 pm
Hi,
Not being from the Broadcast / film world hoping this forum can point me in the right direction. I'm scoping out creating a multicamera rig, matrix style, but with blackmagic micro cameras, and wondering if I can create a recording rig that uses multiple decklink cards either in one computer or across several.
I've searched around and found some info but wondering if anyone has any hands on experience recording from multiple cameras simultaneously using decklink and the API or blackmagic software - is it plausible to record 4, 8 or more channels of 1080 or UHD/4K even (if using the micro studio)? I'm guessing there's a bottle neck at some point saturating the disk write speed, though if it's a decent M.2 drive that point is higher than it would previously have been with SSDs? But in theory could I load a single computer with one or more decklink cards and record on all the inputs at once? I'm looking to get 30 or more cameras going at the same time.
Is this at all plausible or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Not being from the Broadcast / film world hoping this forum can point me in the right direction. I'm scoping out creating a multicamera rig, matrix style, but with blackmagic micro cameras, and wondering if I can create a recording rig that uses multiple decklink cards either in one computer or across several.
I've searched around and found some info but wondering if anyone has any hands on experience recording from multiple cameras simultaneously using decklink and the API or blackmagic software - is it plausible to record 4, 8 or more channels of 1080 or UHD/4K even (if using the micro studio)? I'm guessing there's a bottle neck at some point saturating the disk write speed, though if it's a decent M.2 drive that point is higher than it would previously have been with SSDs? But in theory could I load a single computer with one or more decklink cards and record on all the inputs at once? I'm looking to get 30 or more cameras going at the same time.
Is this at all plausible or am I barking up the wrong tree?