• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Radeon 4870 DVI/HDMI to TV

  Posted by Paul Witcher on December 16, 2009 at 4:22 pm

  Hi Guys,

  I have a Radeon 4870 in my MacPro – so I got a DVI/HDMI adaptor and I have run a HDMI cable into a HD TV. My monitor is plugged into the other smaller port. Should I get an output to the monitor and TV at the same time? I only get an output to the monitor, if I unplug the monitor I then get an output to the TV. Is there a setup I have missed? or is this expected behaviour?

  Thanks Paul

  Ben Holmes replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ben Holmes

  December 17, 2009 at 7:26 pm

  Check your display settings – it sounds like mirroring is turned on, and the DVI-HDMI connection will only support a small number of resolutions. like 1080×1920.

  FWIW – this is not a good way to get a video output on a TV, as cheap an option as it seems – and you may have considerable problems with it, AS IT WILL NOT display a correct raster and image. I strongly recommend purchasing one of the cheap HDMI output options (Blackmagic Intensity springs to mind – very affordable) that is actually supported as a video output in FCP. You will be amazed by the difference.

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