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monitoring from laptop – P2 workflow
I have a office-based FCP edit system with a AJA IO-HD, so monitoring with my Flanders Scientific monitor is a no-brainer.
I’m trying to set up a Macbook Pro home environment, and now that I’m using a P2 workflow with no tapedeck, I’m wondering how I can pull a signal out for my system for monitoring. I’m trying to avoid having to transport my IO-HD.
Thanks for the help.
Ken
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Output to…what? HDTV? Another Flanders at home?
You will need another IO box…or if you have an HPX-170 or P2 gear, you can use those. The cheapest IO box that works on a laptop is the Matrox MXO2 mini. HDMI out to an HDTV and BAM, there you go.
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You can drive a Flanders via a DVI adapter from your laptop. Give the folks at FSI a call and they’ll tell you exactly how to set this up.
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Another option is the Matrox MXO. Of course when you add the cost of the MXO & a LCD monitor, the price is probably close to the cost of a 17″ FSI.
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I have a full-sized Panasonic HPX-2000 P2 camera, so that’s not really going to fit into the post production workflow. I’m really in a tapeless world at this point. I do have an old Sony PVM 20″ monitor kicking around, so I would need some way of pulling a component signal out of the system.
Would the little Matrox box be a good solution??
Thanks again.
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The Little MXO2 mini does Component, composite and HDMI.
Shane
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Thanks, Shane….
One last dumb question — I’m using a 17″ MBP 2.5 GHz that’s about 3 years old. How would I connect up to the MX02 — firewire?? Looking at the Matrox website, it appears that I would need an HDMI output spigot, which I don’t believe my MBP has.
Gracias.
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[Ken Zukin] “How would I connect up to the MX02 — firewire??”
No. Express34 slot. Firewire is how the AJA IOHD does it.
Shane
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There’s also the AJA ioExpress that does HDSDI, analog component, or HDMI in either HD or SD and hooks to computer through Express34.
If you need that port for storage, I’d go the ioHD route.
Jeremy
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