Resolume Forum

Hi,

Sorry yet another post from me after a long time of silence.

I thought I would be able to run multiple webcams into Resolume on my Macbook Pro just like you can on a PC.

Is this actually possible????

There was a post on this a year ago but it died and had no comment from Bart or Edwin:

http://www.resolume.com/forum/viewtopic ... ebcams+mac

Looking around on the web generally I am wondering if it is actually a MAC limitation not Resolume.

If Mac can't support multiple webcams that is pretty poor.

Any comments? Especially from the development team?

Please don't bother to comment about whether its a good idea or whether the quality will be good enough - for what I am doing it can be pretty grungy.

Oh and for anyone following my other questions - got Resolume driving three layers simultaneously to old TV screens through a triplehead card last night. We are going to have the three layers spread across 24 screens in multiple rooms for an art installation and hoping, if I can get the coding right, to have it all automated with Processing and OSC so it will run itself for 3-4 hours!!!!

Thanks as ever

Alistair

Hey Alistair

At the moment, Resolume can not recognise webcams of the same make, and in general multiple webcams can be quite a headache. Sorry to give you an answer you're not looking for, but aside from the image quality, USB webcams perform pretty poor on the tech quality side of things as well, and it's very hard to get them to work reliably. It's the old cheap-good-fast triangle again. USB webcams are cheap and fast, so that automatically means they're not really good.

Actually, if you want to have proper reliable multiple source input, we suggest putting a couple of Blackmagic Intensity cards in your computer. There is a considerable price difference, but you will be sure that your installation will actually run for the time you want it to run.

Joris