I’m curious what the Boinx team think of the new Mac Pro in relation to it’s BoinxTV product. Currently I’ve been using firewire to connect live cameras to a 2008 Mac Pro to cover live events. I’m intrigued by the smaller form factor of the Mac Pro announced yesterday at the WWDC. My understanding is that it has 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports. Can you advise on a suggested workflow with this new machine? Will a simple firewire to thunderbolt adapter send my video streams into BoinxTV successfully? Also, assuming one of the Thunderbolt 2 ports is engaged with a monitor, can I expect that I could input cameras into each of the remaining ports to input 5 cameras into BoinxTV at a time? Thanks for your thoughts on this issue.
Just to clarify in advance: All I can say is speculation as we haven’t seen more of the new MacPro than you but we can extrapolate “facts” from the specs available.
As a thunderbolt to FireWire adapter has its own FireWire bus. These adapters already work fine on current Retina MacBookPros or iMac. So We don’t see why you couldn’t connect 6 FireWire Cameras to the coming MacPro. It has HDMI built in so you can also use all Thunderbolt ports for inputs and connect the screen to HDMI.