PC for Capture - Diagram

My capture setup is built around a Intel Skull Canyon NUC (wing). The main benefits of it are:

• small (although the heatsink mod hurt that a bit)
• i7 6th gen CPU does decent video encode †
• Thunderbolt 3 expansion
• Decent number of USB ports
• Cool wall mount plate (part of Crestron UC-Engine kit)

• Orei HDS-808 HDMI matrix switcher (8-in 8-out)
• ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock
• DataVideo DN-300 (DV and analog capture)
• Hosongin USB Audio interface
• DataVideo TLM-404H Quad composite LCD display
• Patch Panel

The patch panel has 24 ports:

• 4x telephone from PBX. Maybe hybrid lines, or a mix of hybrid​/digital​/single.
• USB 3.0 from ThinkPad Dock
• HDMI from ThinkPad Dock
• Rear IO from DataVideo DN-300
  • RCA Audio (left and right)
  • BNC composite video
  • S-Video
  • Maybe 6-pin Firewire
• 4 HDMI from Orei matrix switcher (2 in, 2 out)
• 5 RJ-45 (Four to 1G switch, One to 2.5G switch)

That's 19 ports occupied. If I decide to use the Saffire Pro audio I can also put it's 2 rear channels in the patch panel.

Wall things:

• Akitio Thunder Dock (Firewire 800, extra USB 3.0)
• Several Inogeni USB capture devices
• Atlona AT-HD500
• 5-port network switch?
• 8-port USB 2.0 hub?

I wanted to get some things out of the rack, but not take up desk space. I also was expecting more cables to be running around so I wanted a nice way to secure them.

First I considered some type of pegboard. Ikea's skådis looked attractive.

• slotted holes would be easy to pass zip ties through
• lots of accessories
• seemingly a rich 3D printer library for more custom stuff

I also thought about getting a second Crestron UC-ENGINE bracket (UC-BRKT-100, UC-BRKT-200). These are aluminum plates. They have varying threaded holes and slots or holes. It is easy enough to drill and tap them for custom mounting.

Then I was poking around and came across the holy grail. The Variera Shelf Insert.

This thing is amazing:

• ☑ Steel sheet metal (magnetic, rivet nut for thread holes)
• ☑ Decorative hole pattern (multitude of holes for zip ties, nice to look at)
• ☑ Flatten the shallow edge, and you can even pass ethernet cables behind it
• ☑ Mix the two sizes to fill any space (12.6x11" and 12.6x5.1")

• Dell 2407WFP (Old CFL based, but lots of input variety)
• 15" portable LCD
• Maybe a second 15" portable LCD
• TLM-404 (3 displays, 4th is for DN-300)
• Maybe a tiny display for lidim

I wasn't happy with my previous monitor mount. I tried using one of my tablet stands to hold the second 15" display, but that was also a fail.

The Variera Shelf Insert is so versatile that I decided to build a dual portable monitor stand out of them.

• 2x Inogeni DVIUSB
• Inogeni 4K2USB3
• MacroSilicon HDMI USB 2.0
• Inogeni SDI2USB3
• Inogeni VGA2USB3

• Imichi Microscope
• Canon Vixia HG20 (bench)
• Canon Vixia HV30 (tripod, maybe swap with samsung hmx)
• Samsung HMX-R10 (desk)
• Tongveo NV3HB3B
• Atlona AT-HD500
• Chameye C410 (may not use HDMI)
• ELP 4K camera/modules

After trimming the list a bit that is 6 outputs, and maybe 6 inputs. That leaves 2 of each free on the matrix switcher. They can be routed to the patch panel for temporary setups.

I forgot about the TLM-404 display. That makes things a bit more limited on the outputs. Currently only have 2 HDMI to CVBS adapters, and the 4th display is dedicated to the DN-300.

• Input
  1. Canon Vixia HG20 (bench)
  2. Tongveo NV3HB3B
  3. Samsung HMX-R10 (desk)
  4. Imichi Microscope
  5. Atlona AT-HD500
  6. NUC's Mini DP out
  7. Patch panel / Canon Vixia HV30 (tripod)
  8. Patch panel
• Output
  1. Dell 2407WFP
  2. dviusb 1
  3. dviusb 2
  4. tlm-404 1
  5. tlm-404 2
  6. vokensu 15" portable monitor
  7. Patch Panel
  8. Patch Panel

• Okiocam document cam
• ELP global shutter USB webcam
• Apple iSight
• Sony XCD-V60
• Various other IIDC or iSight compatible cams

How many high bandwidth USB devices can I support?

Ideally we limit to each controller to 1 device, but depending on capture type sharing might be feasible.

• NUC
  • 2 Rear ports
  • Front charging port (yellow)
  • Front port
  • Internal USB 3.0 header
• Thinkpad Thunderbolt 3 dock
  • 3 rear ports (yellow dot)
  • front and rear ports (white dot)
• Akitio Thunder dock
  • 2 ports

That leaves us with 6 unshared ports (7 if I break out the internal header). I think it is enough (5 inogeni devices, 1 USB 3.0 camera). That also leaves the shared ports for attaching USB 2.0 devices/hubs.

May need a multiple serial adapter. I have a 4 or 8 port. None of the permanant stuff really needs it though. I may just hook the 4-port up to have it ready.

• Orei (also has network)
• Chameye (RS-485, also network VISCA, and maybe PELCO)
• Tongveo (RS-485, also network VISCA, and maybe PELCO)
• DN-300 (RS-422)