HD/SDI from MBP display port?

[Raymond Tuquero]

Interesting … because I am able to do that for Projectors. DVI Out to them for live shows that I do. And it even recognizes the Second monitor as a preview monitor that I can use with Final Cut.

Not to test your knowledge on your Mac. … but did you tell the graphics card to make the second monitor a second monitor and not a mirror of your main desktop?

-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Based Freelancer
http://www.rtuqvidere.com

[Marcel Franck]

Yes…right now I currently work with a duel monitor set-up…the laptop screen plus a 24″ACD using the mini dispaly port with a dvi adapter…convergent designs have a dvi to hdmi/hd/sdi converter box…
hopefully someone will post with a firm/semifirm answer….;-}
marcel

PRODUCER – DIRECTOR – EDITOR
CANON 7D 3.0 MBP 4GIGS RAM 1TB SONNET FUSION F2 ESATA
PPC G5 DUAL 2GIG, 6 GIGS RAM, AJA IO, 2TB SATA2
OS 10.4.11
FCP 7 & 6.0.5
Ae 6.5 CS3 Ps,Ai,Ae

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Marcel,
The DVI output the same Digital Component stream that you find in SDI or HDMI (no audio).
I don’t know the specs of the Convergent-Design device (you should ask Mike or Dan in CD), but suer you have other solutions:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/dviextender/
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Marcel,
I’ve been having a look to the Convergent-Design nanoConnect.
It clearly states “Convert from DVI source (such as a computer) to HD/SD-SDI”.
Probably you will need just a DVI to HDMI adaptor.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Marcel Franck]

Thanks Raphael…you are up late no?

PRODUCER – DIRECTOR – EDITOR
CANON 7D 3.0 MBP 4GIGS RAM 1TB SONNET FUSION F2 ESATA
PPC G5 DUAL 2GIG, 6 GIGS RAM, AJA IO, 2TB SATA2
OS 10.4.11
FCP 7 & 6.0.5
Ae 6.5 CS3 Ps,Ai,Ae

[Joe Procopio]

as long as you get the correct signal converted to HD/SDI, just make sure the monitor you are going to is calibrated correctly from the signal it is being fed.

what model monitor are you planning on going to, and does it have a blue only mode to set up color on colorbars? just send HD color bars out of the FCP, set your black level with the pluge, the white level so it doesn’t clip any whites, and your color with blue only, and you’re set…or hire someone to correctly calibrate the monitor with professional calibration gear, colorimeter…etc…if you’re near NYC, you could hire me!

Broadway Video, NYC
AVID/FCP editor/engineer

[Rafael Amador]

Well, here is 11 PM.
Soon I’ll switch the computer off and go to read for a while.
I have work to do but today I feel lazy:-)
No lazy, but I have to retake a project that I shot and let half edited 5 months ago.
I would rather go with something new. Is like if you would know what you gonna eat for the next few weeks: Don’t feel like eating:-)
Good night.
rafael
PS: Talk with the people of Convergent Design about the “nanoConnect”. I have never found people as nice and helpful as in that company.

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Gary Adcock]

[Rafael Amador] “The DVI output the same Digital Component stream that you find in SDI or HDMI (no audio). “

This is totally incorrect.

Computer monitors and their DVI, DVI-D or Display Port outputs work at mhz levels and frame rasters that are NOT video and cannot be captured or played back as video

Output from a computers DVI source is NOT Video especially not on a MAC- it is an RGB image display sequence and cannot be able to be converted to a SDI Video Signal without some kind of Frame scanning capability.

Some HDMI devices allow for these non video signals to be played directly out on a display using DVI to HDMI conversion but even that needs to be handled by devices that allow for it.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php

[Aaron Neitz]

The AJA HA5 should do the trick. It’s a HDMI to HD-SDI converter (just buy a cheap HDMI/DVI adapter…). But it doesn’t come cheap! I’d give AJA a call and see if they think it would work.

[Gary Adcock]

[Aaron Neitz] “he AJA HA5 should do the trick. It’s a HDMI to HD-SDI converter (just buy a cheap HDMI/DVI adapter…). But it doesn’t come cheap! I’d give AJA a call and see if they think it would work. “

Not from a computer display, the Aja hardware tools only support SMPTE standard video frame rates and rasters.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php