Well here's one for you all...

We're building a 6 camera studio using the Sony HD PTZ robocams. Shows will be switched live for Cable and Streaming distribution.

What we would like is a method to capture direct to disk or P2 or somesuch each of the 6 cameras as iso's.

Another words we're looking for a way to record/digitize to Avid media 6 simultaneous streams of HD-SDi 1080i in realtime. This will allow us to go directly into post without 6 hours of digitizing for a 1 hour program.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance

Might be worth talking to the BBCs research and development team.  They have been developing such a system http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/tapeless-production/indexp3.shtml

Not sure if it's commercially available though

regards

Brian

my clients shoot to p2 cards which they then dump to disk. they give the drives to edit from. problem is that there's apparently a 2gb file size limitation when going from the cards to disk so that breaks the files into approx 2 minute chunks with different starting codes (unless you can roll each camera at precisely the same start time). when you group the clips it gets very messy and you're dealing with lots of small group clips. so i save some time not having to digitize but organizationally it's a nightmare. at this point, i'd prefer to digitize.

here's a related thread that i started:

http://community.avid.com/forums/t/57818.aspx