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dual displays for fcp question
got to 23 in cinemas
problem is one display has taken up the firewire port on the back
how are you guys running your dual displays , i hate having to run a firewire hub off the front bus and another for usb .
what have you guys been setting this up with
and i am working with a capture card but no breakout box like the multi bridge or Io so that one is out .thanks
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sorry forgot to mention
this is off the 6800 ultra card on dual g5 -
We run dual displays on all of our systems. The firewire and USB connections are really only for convenience. You do NOT need to have them actually connected.
We usually do NOT connect the firewire to the monitor, since deck connections seem to work better right off of the CPU. The USB is usually connected to just one monitor.Mark
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Hi
I’ve got a Sony J-30 Digibeta player permanently wired to one FW port on the rear of one of my pair of Apple 23″ displays, and a DSR-25 DVCAM deck connected to the other FW port.
Only one or the other is powered up when working with FCP, and this has been working day-in-day-out for the past year without glitch. They can be both powered for Digi>DV dubbing as long as FCP isn’t open.
On the 2.5GHz dual G5’s FW800 port there are usually 3xFW800 drives for DV media being edited, and 1 or 2 FW400 drives connected for file backup. Again more-or-less glitch-free (I usually take the FW400s offline for critical moments like tape playout.
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