SnapPlus
David,
You can use one VBOX, but you need one for every VTR. They do
daisy chain together, up to seven. However, you still need one for
each VTR. I used only one and was able to do cuts only editing by
manually controlling one VTR and letting the VBOX contro the other.
It is still nice because you can pick all your edit points or
segments and then if you have a good target deck with the insert
feature you manually run that. However, two VBOXES or one VBOX and
one VDECK is ideal.
I am not familiar with RENDERIZE LIVE. but with MA you can put FLICS
live or overlayed to tape. If the flic is too big it will not run
smoothely.
I have done LIVE stuff with media author, such as run three
camcorders a switcher and a target deck shooting a rock band playing
live. I had several scripts pre-written and made a menu for all, when
I need to switch, I'd bypass the computer to the third camcorder,
switch scripts snd then go back to one of the two cams being fed into
the computer. The scripts would have all sorts of fli files and color
cycleing, still frames, text, inverse video, etc. all for overlaying
on the incoming video window, also I would move the window around and
resize etc for effects, grab and freeze 1/4 of the scree and open a
video windo diagonal to that etc, all pre-written scripts mind you,
and all would be recorded onto the target VTR.
The resolution is the biggest drawback with the SnapPlus and it seems
to capture a little slow. I'd digitize several frames of one of the
band members, such as the drummer and make a fli iof that to be rand
in part of the screen next to a video window. Works good for the
above stuff, but you can forget frame accuracy altogether.