Question about multiple video recording

right so im going to be starting a small studio with some other people recording bands, interviews, news reports for our website and set top box (most of the major stuff like premisis etc has been sorted)
we will probly have 3/4 cams recording both sd and hd so i was wondwering is there is any way of recording all of them onto one machine (mac pro 8 core etc) with say 3/4 aja, black magic internal cards would that work or would i have to get say 3/4 mac mini's with firewire aja/motu boxes and record using them
im trying to keep costs low but quality high and also less equipment means less to go wrong etc, i want to try and get away without tapes and keep it all digital
any advice or if i have missed anything feel free to ask
adam

Check out this software solution (BoinxTV) and see if it might work for you...
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/boinxtv.html
-Jeremy

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