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  • Shane Ross

    April 15, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    The USB adapters won’t work. They have no VRAM and Premiere Pro won’t even launch with that connected.

    Now…do you want a third COMPUTER display, or something like an HDTV for full screen playback? If the latter, look at decklink.com and aja.com for IO options. Decklink has cheaper ones…for the MacPro, there’s the Intensity.

    Shane
    Little Frog Post
    Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

  • Max Frank

    April 15, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    Thanks, Shane!

  • David Roth weiss

    April 15, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    Are you looking for a third computer display, or are you looking to output to a TV or monitor??? There’s a huge difference…

    David Roth Weiss
    Director/Editor/Colorist
    David Weiss Productions

    David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

  • Max Frank

    April 15, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    Sorry if I was ambiguous.

    I have a 3rd display (Dell 24″), that I want to
    connect and use as an output monitor.

  • David Roth weiss

    April 15, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    [Max Frank] “I have a 3rd display (Dell 24″), that I want to
    connect and use as an output monitor.”

    In that case, your best bet is probably to acquire a GTX 680 Mac Edition GPU, which will not oily give you support for three concurrent computer monitors, and will also provide GPU acceleration via the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine.

    Call OWC to see if they still have them – if not, ask them what the replacement is that three monitor support.

    David Roth Weiss
    Director/Editor/Colorist
    David Weiss Productions

    David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

  • Max Frank

    April 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    Thanks, that’s interesting, Dave.

    I already have an NVIDIA 4000 (CUDA) card,
    so would the GTX make such a big difference in
    performance that it would warrant over getting a
    Sub $200 I/O card?

    Thanks in advance.

  • Jeff Pulera

    April 15, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    Does the Dell display have an HDMI input? A BlackMagic Decklink Mini Monitor card is $140 and provides HDMI (and HD-SDI) output from a small PCI-e card (if you have a slot open). This is a VIDEO output at proper signal timing, not a “computer signal”. Provides a more realistic preview of the video from Premiere timeline. Premiere will feed the card directly, has nothing to do with the Mac display hardware.

    Thanks

    Jeff Pulera
    Safe Harbor Computers

  • Max Frank

    April 15, 2015 at 7:28 pm

    Thanks, Jeff,

    That’s exactly what I’m looking for.

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/964120-REG/blackmagic_design_decklink_mini_monitor.html

    Thanks to everyone that took the valuable time to help out.

  • Jeff Pulera

    April 15, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    Hi Max,

    I recommend this vendor: https://www.sharbor.com/decklink-mini-monitor.html

    Thanks

    Jeff

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