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  1. ShutterEncoder is just a GUI for ffmpeg, and ffmpeg's HAP output quality is terrible. Pay the money for Jokyo, it's worth it.
  2. We use Kiloview and BirdDog converters without issue. You can also just use a capture card, as per your own thoughts.
  3. Why are you using a crossover cable? It isn’t 1995... Try a straight-through patch cable, or via a switch.
  4. Watchout can certainly play 4K50/60 media, and much higher resolutions, with no problem... if your display servers are specced, built and configured properly! Our Watchout servers happily play 12x 4K60 media via 6x physical 4K60Hz outputs, WX9100 GPUs and Samsung PM1735 PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Fully framelocked, zero dropped frames.
  5. The culprit, in my case at least, was definitely the crapware that VMix installs with it (Haali Media Splitter, VMix codecs, etc etc). Having removed those, but kept VMix, everything now works fine, including VMix.
  6. Thanks for your detailed reply; since writing mine, I had also determined the culprit to be VMix, in particular the codecs and ancillary applications that are installed along with it. After removing those, Watchout and VMix now happily co-exist, with HAP files of all flavours playing as they should.
  7. Threadripper/EPYC is great, especially for ProRes/TGA image sequence playback (lots of cores).
  8. You could build a single mammoth EPYC/Threadripper Pro based machine with 3x A5000 GPUs, running Watchout in 3x VMs on VMWare/Proxmox or similar... or you could build 2x much cheaper machines based on a consumer Ryzen/i7/i9 platform with a single AMD WX9100 each, running Windows on bare-metal, giving you 12x total 4K60 outputs for 48x 1080p60 via FX4s. Will cost less and be likely more reliable.
  9. Display output numbers will commonly switch, seemingly at random. Make sure to note output numbers shown on the Watchout display splash screens, and use those for display output assignments within the Production software, instead of the Windows/GPU output numbers.
  10. Thanks for letting us know that you're at least reading this thread. What would be really helpful is some kind of high-level roadmap for Watchout, specifically in relation to the possibility of implementing major features like Notch, which would directly affect current purchasing decisions. Your competition seem to be much more open with their plans, which inspires confidence and leads to sales.
  11. None of the above techniques will work with high-bandwidth HAPQ files, for example; you will experience a flash of black unless you use the ‘jump to cue’ method of looping.
  12. Or Tyan Tomcat HX S8030 if you can make use of PCIe4.0
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