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Decklink Pro HD w/ Avid Xpress Pro HD 5.5.1 for “Full Screen Playback”
Hello,
I have just upgraded Avid Xpress on a system that has both Final Cut Pro and Avid Xpress. On the Final Cut side, we’ve been using a Decklink HD card for viewing video on a CRT and Apple Cinema display.
Now Avid has released a new version of Xpress that now supports “Full Screen Playback”. If I select one of the two 17″ desktop displays as the “Full Screen Playback” display in Xpress, it works fine. If I select the Decklink display, when I switch to Full Screen, it locks up Xpress with the color wheel of death. This is probably more an Avid question, but I’m curious if anyone knows what the issues would be with this, and have any suggestions about getting this to work on the system without having to get ANOTHER video card that would have to be re-cabled to the existing Cinema display every time switching back and forth between Final Cut and Xpress.
I’d especially be curious to hear from Matt or someone at BMD to see if they’ve even got an Xpress or Avid that they test these things on?
Thanks in advance,
Steve Herring
Portland, OR USA
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9 Replies
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avid supportet not third videohardware…
use this: https://www.matrox.com/video/products/mxo/home.cfm
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I would suggest that you do a dual boot OS – one for Avid Xpress and one for FCP. You’re gonna problem if you have Avid Xpress and FCP co-exist in the same OS, and you’ve problem encountered one already.
-chrispy
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Hello Nico and chrispy,
The system is already dual-booted. We just upgraded to Avid Xpress 5.5.1 and brought that boot partition up to Mac OS 10.4.6 w/ Quicktime 7.0.2. On the Final Cut boot partition, everything is fine and there are no issues.
I am trying to get the Xpress system to work with Decklink, and that’s the issue.
The Matrox MXO hardware is neat, but it would require an ADDITIONAL graphics card, an ADDITIONAL monitor and I don’t know that we have room for that additional PCI card in the G5 Dual 2.0GHz. Does anyone have any working knowledge of having tried this?
Thanks,
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Avid Xpress does not support the Decklink card so you’re not going to get it to work.
-chrispy
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You should look at the new MojoSDI. Avid XPRess or the new Media Composer will not support any video I/O hardware like a capture card except Mojo AFAIK. I haven’t come across anyone who uses Avid software (any) with any capture card.
Neil
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Also, just a quick note.
The Mojo SDI is “STANDARD DEF” only!
Cheers
Brett
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I could be wrong, but doesn’t the new MojoSDI when used with MC software allow you to capture from HD and use the DNxHD codecs to store?
Neil
FCP Editor, Mumbai, India.
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“The Matrox MXO hardware is neat, but it would require an ADDITIONAL graphics card, an ADDITIONAL monitor and I don’t know that we have room for that additional PCI card in the G5 Dual 2.0GHz. Does anyone have any working knowledge of having tried this?”
no. between second port of the graphics card and your second monitor. then use the “Full Screen Playback”. Is cheaper than the MojoSDI…
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