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TomSinclair
09-08-2013, 10:34 AM
Zac Adams, our Wednesday guest on That VidBlaster Guy! (http://www.thatvidblasterguy.com) this week, shows how he gets 24 cameras into VidBlaster.

This is a MUST SEE show!

Wednesday
3 pm Eastern US
8 pm United Kingdom
5 am Melbourne (Thursday)

Will post this on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/ThatVidBlasterGuy?feature=mhee) afterwards for those that are not able to watch live.

MovieBuff
09-08-2013, 10:38 AM
Aw, come on lol. I wish we could watch this now.

andrewzarian
09-08-2013, 01:42 PM
Is Santa Claus and the Easter bunny going to be on the show also? :)

andrewzarian
09-08-2013, 01:46 PM
in all seriousness what resolution is he bringing the camera in at?

TomSinclair
09-08-2013, 03:20 PM
Not sure, but since this is part of a reality internet TV series, it must be fairly decent.

TommySulivan
09-08-2013, 03:22 PM
Very exciting Tom. Is there a website where I can see the final product?

brianmonroe
09-09-2013, 09:03 AM
Andrew.

I would watch if Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny was going to be on. lolz

-Brian

oscarmartz
09-11-2013, 08:46 AM
Anyone got a link or know where I can find this. I am interested in vidblaster and would like to know what the quality is like

MovieBuff
09-11-2013, 08:52 AM
Zac Adams, our Wednesday guest on That VidBlaster Guy! (http://www.thatvidblasterguy.com) this week, shows how he gets 24 cameras into VidBlaster.

I really hope he is using 24 HD cameras. Is he using HD cameras? UPDATE: Turns out all 24 cameras are in HD.

TomSinclair
09-11-2013, 10:16 AM
Going live at 3 ET. www.thatvidblasterguy.com

TomSinclair
09-11-2013, 03:07 PM
Hear's the show in its entirety:


http://youtu.be/DpbHrfztXR4

AndrewSeabrook
09-11-2013, 03:09 PM
Sorry, didn't catch that! :)

TommySulivan
09-14-2013, 11:42 AM
I just watched the latest episode. If that is what Vidblaster 3 is capable of I am not impressed.

TomSinclair
09-15-2013, 06:52 AM
24 cameras not enough? lol

TommySulivan
09-15-2013, 07:04 AM
It is not about the quantity its about the quality. Yes he has 24 IP cameras but they look awful. I was not talking about the 24 input when I said I am not impressed. The recording quality of the show is not good. the side by side is awful. If that's how Vidblaster functions I'm glad I decided not to go with it.

TomSinclair
09-15-2013, 09:22 PM
@Tommy - Remember that the embedded YouTube player gives different resolution options (the little gear icon). Perhaps yours was set to less than the max. The show is recorded and streamed at 864x480. Guest videos are included as a screen capture from Skype, hence some loss of quality is to be expected. Hope you'll take another look at VidBlaster.

TommySulivan
09-16-2013, 10:23 AM
Tom,

I am aware that you will suffer some quality loss when uploading to youtube. I am talking about the extremely poor frame rate I am seeing with your video. The side by side camera is not good. It seems like you are under 10 fps. that is not good....

joedemax
09-20-2013, 04:47 PM
So I will give my honest $0.02,

I do feel that the frame rate on that particular video is low, and I think this is an architectural problem of VidBlaster. I have yet to see someone do a show with VidBlaster @ 1080P (I saw one and this is how it looks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvg0lSGLHk)

I think this is down to the fact that VidBlaster works using Windows VMR and the CPU to process - I also believe they process in RGB which is the *wrong* way to do this. As soon as you take this approach you have to make 2 color space conversions to get video in and out of the system. Other computer based switchers often use technologies like OpenGL to process on the GPU - and this approach is the only way to reliably process real time video on a computer. In this paradigm everything is a GPU texture, which makes it a million times easier to do advanced compositing etc..

Joe..

johncoles
09-21-2013, 07:52 AM
@Tommy - Remember that the embedded YouTube player gives different resolution options (the little gear icon). Perhaps yours was set to less than the max. The show is recorded and streamed at 864x480. Guest videos are included as a screen capture from Skype, hence some loss of quality is to be expected. Hope you'll take another look at VidBlaster.

Why not 1280x720?