Flogging a dead horse

I know this has been done to death and it comes down to Quicktime but I thought I would give it a go myself.

Dual camera anaglyph is not possible with QC, unless you install a second firewire input card.

Picked up two Sony eyetoy usb cameras for cheap (£4 each). After reading on here that the Kineme AudioVideo plugin could use multiple cameras of the same make, I should have read some more threads!

Tried them on MBP 10.5.6 QC3.1 first, with the maccam driver and AudioVideo plugin installed and hey guess what crash crash crash, doh. Moved over to my G5 10.4.3 QC 2.1, tried installing AudioVideo plugin (Library/Graphics/Patches) and it does not show up so I guess it never was meant for QC 2.1. Tried with the built in video input and guess what it can get the built in camera and one eyetoy: Qucktime can see both eyetoys but will only allow me to choose one! So near but so far: there is no way of lining up the eyetoy with the built in cam. Even trying to set the input source with (show device setting QC 2.1) causes a crash.

So the only work around I can think of is to run a composition on two machines and mix the outputs with a video mixer, or a vixid mixer with those lovely layer and colourize modes- I could just plug in any pair of cameras and I would be done.

All is not lost though the cameras will be useful for IR point tracking, and they were so cheap I don't mind ripping them apart to remove the filter:)