Recording your inputs

Input Rec records the inputs you choose to their own files, each exactly as it arrived — its own size, frame rate and sound, before crop, colour, effects or gain — so you have the raw material to re-edit a show afterwards. This is separate from recording Program, which is the switched, composited result.

Arm your inputs

Open the Input Recording window, behind its gear icon beside Input Rec, and choose which inputs to record. Only NDI, USB capture, Blackmagic and audio inputs can be armed.

How many you can arm

How many inputs you can record at once depends on your Mac, not on InterDirector: every armed input is encoded and written to disk at the same time as everything else your Show is already doing, and a slower Mac, or a slower disk, runs out of room to do that sooner than a faster one. There is no fixed number — try what you plan to run before a real show, on the same Mac and the same disk you will use for it.

If the recorders cannot keep up, Input Rec turns amber and names the input that is behind, the same way the Stream button does for a struggling destination. The fix is to arm fewer inputs, or record to a faster disk.

Start it

Press Input Rec to start every armed input recording together, into one new folder named for your Show and the moment, in the same place as your Show file by default (or elsewhere, if you choose a folder yourself). An input with a picture is written as a movie, HEVC or H.264, with its own sound; an input with sound alone is written as a WAV.

Next

Recording Program, for the switched result, and NDI, SDI and the external display for the other ways Program can leave your Mac.