Dear René,

First, concerning the choice of the capture card, Since we only use their pure input/output functionality without any processing, in that regard they're equally good. We ourselves are neither hardware resellers, nor broadcasters, so, unfortunately, we cannot give you real info on the performance of each of the mentioned cards but we can guarantee you complete support of the cards by Aximmetry Software. So your choice should be based purely on your operation needs.

Second, in the case of the HTC Vive tracking system, any Aximmetry license can do the job for you. However, since you are going to use SDI, you need a Professional license. If you plan to use more sophisticated tracking systems such as Stype, you should consider getting the Broadcast version because they are only supported by this license.

Third, your machine should handle it perfectly well. We would recommend a GPU upgrade in the future for an RTX 3080 or 3090, but even the 2080Ti is powerful enough in most scenarios.

Feel free to contact us with any additional questions.

Dear Aximmetry-Team,

Thank you for your response!
That means I can use whatever DeckLink I want, great! Is it possible to use more than one Blackmagic-board in the machine, too?

Regarding the GPU - the upgrade to RTX 3090 cards is already planned ;-) But availability....

If we plan our new workstations, what we have to think about for choosing new CPUs? I think on your "Recommended Hardware" list you mention, that coreclock is more important, than corecount. 3,5 GHz is the minimum requirement? Let´s say we would upgrade to 3990X processors with 64 cores, the baseclock of 2,9 GHz wouldn´t be fast enough?

Greetings,

René

Dear René,

Yes, You can use as many cards as you want (well as your pc allows actually to be technically precise).

For the CPU, we would recommend waiting for the 5970x since it offers a much higher base and boost clock speeds and IPC improvement compared to the Ryzen 3000 series CPUs. The 3990x is also gonna perform great, but we're talking purely about Aximmetry performance here.

So, the choice should be based on what your workflow consists of.

Dear Aximmetry-Team

Thank you for the confirmation regarding video boards.
Now one more question came to my mind. The Professional-version supports up to four I/O (SDI/NDI). Does it mean I can use just four feeds at the same time, or does it mean I can implement four inputs / outputs in the scene at maximum? The reason for my question is, we want to use three cameras and one final output. But also one NDI-input. But at the same time we won´t use more than one camera-signal, one NDI-input and the composed output.

I hope the question makes kind of sense ;-)

Thank you for your support,

René

Dear René,

Aximmetry Professional Edition supports a total of 4 SDI/NDI input/output ports per machine that includes both the input and the output ports. It means that if you need at least one SDI output you can only receive a maximum of 3 SDI /NDI inputs.

Aximmetry Broadcast Edition does not have these limitations.

In your case, you need the Broadcast Edition since your total combined SDI/NDI inputs/outputs are 5 (3 SDI INPUTS + 1 NDI INPUT + 1 SDI OUTPUT).