adding broadcast monitor

[Andy Mees]

Craig

If your need is for monitoring only then you can use a Matrox MXO (not the MXO2) … connects via your MBP’s graphics port, you can still use the ExpressCard slot for your eSATA drive connection.

Alternatively you may be able to mod your MBP, adding SATA in place of the existing Airport card … you’d lose built-in WiFi connectivity but you can replace that with a USB based solution.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Jay Soriano]

So Shane,

The only way to monitor/ and use an esata raid at the same time such as with a caldigit vr mini from a Macbook Pro will be with an iohd or the motu?(FCP editing, no Color)? When using an mxo2 mini for monitoring, were limited to a firewire raid solution? Thanks for clearing things up.

[Shane Ross]

[Rafael Amador] “You are right Shane.
The ioHD can only output SD.”

No no no no no no no. It can output HD all day long! That’s why it is called the IOHD. It can play back HD from FCP no problem. IT IS COLOR that doesn’t do HD over firewire. FCP is fine.

[Jay Soriano] “The only way to monitor/ and use an esata raid at the same time such as with a caldigit vr mini from a Macbook Pro will be with an iohd or the motu”

Or as Andy mentioned, the Original MXO. But that is output only…FYI. And the IOHD nor MOTU won’t work with COLOR in HD…it does with FCP.

[Jay Soriano] “(FCP editing, no Color)?”

FCP in SD and HD. Color in SD only.

[Jay Soriano] ” When using an mxo2 mini for monitoring, were limited to a firewire raid solution?”

Yes.

Shane

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks all. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that I need to lower my expectations and stay with Apple’s built in 3 way color correct until I set up a Mac Pro with a proper I/O card. Soon.

Need marine insurance in case my Mac Pro set up is stolen again. (FYI: if you think you are protected by most replacement cost home owner’s insurance, check the fine print – we were limited to $2500 in computer equipment).

Andy,
Most of the articles I’ve now read on the Matrox MXO discuss its ability to input the signal from the Macbook pro’s DVI port and send it to a computer monitor (ACD) and process so that the computer monitor’s image looks pretty close to a broadcast monitor’s image if properly calibrated.

Is it equally helpful/needed with a broadcast monitor?

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[Shane Ross]

[Craig Alan] “Is it equally helpful/needed with a broadcast monitor?”

The MXO has Component, SDI, Composite outputs. It can connect to any broadcast monitor. The ability to connect to an ACD and calibrate it is unique…but it doesn’t ONLY work with computer monitors.

Shane

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[Jay Soriano]

Would I be able to use the MXO’s DVI output to work as a second display for FCP dual monitoring editing? (not as a video monitor but as a second monitor to expand my FCP windows as I will go component out to my PVM-14L5). thanks again.

[Craig Alan]

Thanks Shane,

I see that from the MXO set up pics.

https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo/examples/#close

But is the MXO doing anything for a broadcast monitor signal?

Can I just go Macbook pro DVI Out to the Panasonic SDI In?
What type of image would that be? Good enough to judge exposure levels/3way color correct?

If not, is there any cheaper way to go Macbook pro DVI Out to any of the Pana’s inputs

https://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/sales_o/02products/monitors/bt-lh1710/bt-lh1710_pa.html

and get a good enough image to adjust exposure and use Apple’s 3-way color correct?

I see on the

https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo/examples/#close

examples that you can connect your deck and/or monitor to either the MXO’s SDI out or component out. Does the deck still then input to FCP?

My Sony deck is firewire output but does have component out as well.

https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-HVRM15AU/

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; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Shane Ross]

[Jay Soriano] “Would I be able to use the MXO’s DVI output to work as a second display for FCP dual monitoring editing?”

Yup. It works as a pass through to a second monitor…and then when you want to enable the broadcast output, you do that and the second display becomes a monitor, and all the other outputs become active broadcast outputs. You cannot, unfortunately, have the DVI work as a computer monitor, AND the SDI and component outputs work as broadcast. IT’s all or nothing.

[Jay Soriano] “not as a video monitor but as a second monitor to expand my FCP windows as I will go component out to my PVM-14L5). thanks again.”

Sorry, you can’t use the DVI signal for the second monitor, and Component to the PVM at the same time. Doesn’t work that way.

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

[Craig Alan] “But is the MXO doing anything for a broadcast monitor signal?”

Yes. When you activate the device, ALL the outputs become broadcast outputs. SDI, Component, Composite…all of them.

[Craig Alan] “Can I just go Macbook pro DVI Out to the Panasonic SDI In?”

Yup. DVI out to the box, then SDI to the Panasonic.

[Craig Alan] “What type of image would that be? Good enough to judge exposure levels/3way color correct?”

Absolutely. It is a full broadcast quality signal. The device bypasses the graphics card and extracts full YUV from the DVI port.

[Craig Alan] “and get a good enough image to adjust exposure and use Apple’s 3-way color correct?”

Yes

[Craig Alan] “examples that you can connect your deck and/or monitor to either the MXO’s SDI out or component out. Does the deck still then input to FCP?”

The MXO is OUTPUT ONLY. You cannot use it to capture from a deck.

Shane

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[Craig Alan]

“Yup. DVI out to the box, then SDI to the Panasonic.”

No, I meant without the box. I’m guessing no?

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