DaVinci Resolve for Mac Configuration Guide

[Illya Laney]

If you’re desperate for space it looks like a cable could run directly to the HDMI slots in the back. Haha.

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[Arthur Puig]

you connect the fifth one where the second DVD drive should connect.

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Exactly what I did actually. I used empty space on the plate of my raid controller to create a hole large enough for 1 HDMI cable. Works, even if it’s not exactly pretty!

[Ola Haldor voll]

If just my 4-port eSATA RAID card had some space left.. 🙂

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Yyeah, I mean there’s always the side of your mac pro but that’s almost TOO cruel!

If HDMI is a deal braker, one could always get an HDLink – at $470 it’s definitely affordable and gives you some more image calibration control which is always nice.

[Mika Joon]

I think I might need to drill a hole through the aluminum casing right in the middle of the apple logo to get the HDMI cables out to my monitor

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Aless,

The lower optical bay just has a regular SATA connection. So there are no special cables required and you can just plug in your SATA hard disk. Of course this is only worth considering if using an internal disk array. You wouldn’t bother using the lower optical bay for a hard disk if you were using an external disk array.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Illya Laney]

Frankentosh?

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[Luke Maslen]

Hi Illya,

As others have correctly commented, the exclusion of HDMI is only because of limited slots in the Mac Pro chassis. The HDMI features of DeckLink work fine with Resolve on a Mac Pro but the HDMI bracket takes up a slot. This would mean either doing away with a HBA card or butchering the Mac Pro chassis which I don’t recommend you do! An SDI to HDMI converter can be used so you don’t take up a valuable slot internally. Of the Blackmagic Design converters, I’d recommend the HDLink Pro 3D as it is the most versatile model of HDLink. It accepts both single and dual-link HD-SDI, can connect to DisplayPort, DVI and HDMI monitors, has 3D LUT support and also works in 2D and 3D.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Disguise the cable to look like a worm coming out of the apple and you’ve got one sweet casemod!