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FCP- 3 monitors? 1 canvas, and 2 preview “Mirrored” (one for client, one for me)
Hi All.
I am running fcp 7.Currently, I am trying to figure out if I can have 3 monitors run in FCP with my current set up. I fully understand that FCP with a preview monitor can only utilize one graphics card to work (I have 2, which is pointless for this).
Currently, I either have:
– When working alone- 1 cinema display “canvas”, 1 cinema display “preview”
– When working with client-1 cinema display “canvas”, and 1 LCD Television “preview”- HDMII would like to know if i can potentially purchase a splitter, so that I can play the “preview” on both my second Cinema display AND the LCD Television for the client. I do not have money for the ideal setups (kona cards etc.) and am looking for a low budget solution, if there is any.
My configuration:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
2x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120: -
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I bought an HDMI splitter on Amazon to play back the matrox mxo2 to two LCDs at once. But, you can also use the matrox to output component and hdmi at the same time. Have your editing LCD hooked up component and the client lcd hooked up via a long hdmi cable.
The splitter I bought can be kinda funky. Sometimes it just doesn’t work. Sometimes it has some visual distortion. Usually I have to find just the right combination of hooking it up. I don’t think hdmi is really meant to be split that way and really should require some sort of boost. But once I get it working it keeps working.
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Fantastic! I will look into it. Is there a link to the products?
alex@hammeredconcepts.com
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You can buy a Blackmagic Video card for less than that DVI splitter and monitor your video properly.
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Both Bret and Gary are trying to get you to do the job properly using a video I/O card or device. Anything short of sending a true video signal out to a TV or monitor is just wrong. Computer monitors may be called video monitors, but they’re vastly different.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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All of these comments are so helpful.
As far as a black magic card, or something of the like. Any suggestions on which model/brand that will do the job for the cheapest price. Super low budget.
alex@hammeredconcepts.com
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It isnt about being wrong or right, right now. It is about working with what I can afford. Which is something i can work with, or nothing at all. these suggestions have helped.
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While I’m sympathetic to your economic challenges, be aware that this method of monitoring is inherently flawed.
So, for anyone else reading this thread, let me say it again:
Computer screens are NOT video screens. Evaluating, monitoring, or watching programming on them
does NOT give you an accurate idea of what kind of “VIDEO” signal you have. For example, “line flickering” introduced by interlacing will NOT show up on your computer screen but will be an automatic “REJECT” on an NTSC monitor. If you are creating “video” as a final deliverable, there is no substitute for connecting a
proper video monitor.mark
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[Mark Raudonis] “Computer screens are NOT video screens. Evaluating, monitoring, or watching programming on them
does NOT give you an accurate idea of what kind of “VIDEO” signal you have.”Thank you Mark!
Neither Mark, nor Gary, nor Bret, nor myself are unsympathetic to your financial situation Alexander, it’s just that this is really the one area of post that’s written in stone. It’s not a judgement call, there’s simply right and then there’s wrong, period, end of story. If you’re not monitoring a true video signal on a proper monitor you might as well be working with your eyes shut, guessing if you have things right, because you’ll only be right about 50% of the time.
There are many used Blackmagic and AJA cards on Ebay available for song. Get one…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Decklink Intensity Pro is $199.
Matrox MXO2 Mini is $499Those are the cheap ones. THen you need a GOOD HDTV. Both of these have HDMI out to connect to a TV. A good TV.
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