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What's the best 4x HDMI or SDI capture card for 2019?
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mmorlan62  
#1 Posted : Saturday, March 16, 2019 2:23:21 AM(UTC)
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I'm building a new system for a new gig and need to improve beyond single-input cards. What are your experiences/opinions with current crop of cards? (Let's avoid BMD for now. They always have trouble with their finicky drivers. I love their video switches, hate their PC/Mac cards.)

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  • YUAN SC560N4
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#2 Posted : Saturday, March 16, 2019 3:27:59 AM(UTC)
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@mmorland62; pls remove one of your double questions.
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I'm building a new system for a new gig and need to improve beyond single-input cards. What are your experiences/opinions with current crop of cards? (Let's avoid BMD for now. They always have trouble with their finicky drivers. I love their video switches, hate their PC/Mac cards.)

Some candidates from the vMix approved list:

  • YUAN SC560N4









Have you learned anything further on this? I too am trying to figure out which x4 port card to go with except I'm trying to run HDMI ports. I have been looking at YUAN and Blackmagic but can't find anything comparing them. Both seem to be really well liked.

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#4 Posted : Sunday, June 7, 2020 7:36:29 AM(UTC)
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all depends your priorities.
Yuan tech cards are darn cheap today (you can find a 4 SDI input for about 500$.
I would recommend to always choose SDI (3G) over HDMI because coax for SDI is better (better connectors, cheaper on price more robust).
I know you can find optical HDMI cable today, but the connector still sucks.
then on amazon or ebay you can find HDMI to SDI converter for 30$.
The only drawback of this is you are limited to full HD, 4k becomes tricky with SDI.
But for streaming, even 720p is still largely ok.
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