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Participant
Feb 25, 2014 9:26 PM UTC
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Higher end camera for Connect?

I was curious if anyone has had luck or a recommendation getting a higher end camera (non web-cam) to work with Connect? Something like a mid-range consumer hand-held camera or something along those lines. I am using the Cloud version of Connect on Windows PC's. I'd like to have a better quality camera with pan/zoom capabilities that we can mount on a tripod... USB would be preferable, but I believe our connection machine also has a firewire port. Anyone have any success stories or brands/models they can share?

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    Eric_Engelmann
    Inspiring
    Mar 10, 2014 6:19 PM UTC

    I like the Epiphan DVI2USB 3 for adding an HD HDMI signal into Adobe Connect.  If you host with Adobe, the left and right edges of your HD video will be cropped, but not badly.

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    Participant
    Feb 26, 2014 12:36 AM UTC

    Now-a-days, most high-end video cameras are only equipped with HDMI out instead of instead of firewire. If your computer has Thunderbolt, consider Blackmagic Ultra Studio Express. This device can capture HDMI (from the camera) and export via Thunderbolt to the computer. It's best to use Thunderbolt > Firewire versus USB since the two former methods allow for a higher rate of data transfer versus the latter which will result in loss of frames.

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    Participant
    Feb 26, 2014 5:17 PM UTC

    Ah yes.. HDMI does make a lot more sense! It looks like there are some PC options out there with Thunderbolt (time for an upgrade!), so I think I will investigate the Blackmagic route. Thanks!

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