FCX 10.1 and HDMI

[Don Smith]

Thanks for all the suggestions but I don’t want to monitor my video from the laptop. I want to FEED it!

I work in television news (freelance) and I sometimes will have a need to edit on-site and feed out HDMI or SDI (with an HDMI-to-SDI adaptor) to an uplink truck or at a facility where I will need to feed an edited piece in real-time to New York (usually) without having to use some intermediary device that I may not have with me.

I just wanted to confirm that the newest MacBook Pro would do that and it appears that it will so I need to upgrade.

Don Smith

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[Dave Brandt]

I can confirm that this works quite well.

I used to use premiere to feed VTs into our Black Magic Atem but have used FCPX 10.1 on 2 gigs so far and it went off without a hitch. I didn’t render out a master file but played straight from a rendered project. We had roughly 30 minutes of content for each event.

Dave

http://www.SolidMedia.ie

Macbook Pro 17″ i7 2.2 8GB
PC i7 32GB Self Build
FCP 7 FCPX Adobe CS6 Vegas 12 Nuendo 4

[Don Smith]

I’m editing this post from asking for help to solved.

Got my new maxed-out 12-core Mac Pro and hooked up three monitors; a 27″ Thunderbolt for my main display and two 1080 monitors. One connected with an adaptor to be the second display and one connected via HDMI to show as the output of the timeline on Final Cut Pro X.

Originally, the HDMI output simply did not work. After trying many things I powered down the new Mac Pro and switched some cables around. I originally had all three monitors connected to the third bus (the bottom two TB ports (across) and the HDMI port. Yes, all three monitors were being served by one bus. I put one monitor into each of the three buses. In the two columns of three TB ports the top two vertically on the left is one bus, the top two vertically on the right is another bus, and the bottom two horizontally and the HDMI port are served by the third bus. Once I had the monitor load spread out among the three buses then my HDMI monitor came to life (it showed no input before). Suddenly the HDMI monitor showed up in my Display preferences as well, and the HDMI port could be enabled in Final Cut Pro X.

Yay!

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[Ken Winokur]

Hi Everyone

I may have found an even simpler way of getting HDMI TV output that goes beyond what the Apple documentation says. I found it strange that the Apple document referenced 4k capable output HDMI devices only. I just wanted to monitor a real 1080P output without having to get an external device. So I tried it on my machine which is just a 2012 MacMini I7 with intergrated Intel 4000 graphics and 8 gigs of ram. I know it not listed as being supported but it works perfectly for 1080P video. I was able to get it to show up a a external video device in my FCP X preferences by following the Apple instruction for the supported devices.
I am using it right now playing back a time line with 4 layers of effects playing at full speed with no problems at all. I have used a Matrox MXO2 with FCP 7 extensivly for video duplication and output of shows to tape so I know what a hardware output should look like.
Best Regards
Ken

[Leonardo Lottum]

Yeah I can confirm that.
Just bought myself an Sony Bravia 32” for Video Output. I was just using it as second monitor (already ok) when I stumbled over the option in the menu… I thought I had to buy a aja t-tap to do that….but apparently not.
I have an MBP early 2011 with 16GB Ram…so I output the AV Signal through display port-HDMI cable to the tv…it looks great and the colors with the right settings are amazing for a display which costed me 350€!!!