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Laptop client monitor question
Just starting to kit out a small number of roving ENG crews with Adobe Premiere Pro CC on laptops and was thinking about enabling them to use the TV in their hotel as a client monitor.
The question is would we be better off using something like the BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle USB3.0 device to perform the HDMI breakout or use the laptop inbuilt HDMI port and run it in dual screen mode?
I am thinking that we might be placing a bit of extra strain on the onboard graphics card if we get it to drive both the laptop screen and TV at the same time and thereby lose Mercury playback performance.
Any ideas?
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You would be fine with the HDMI out on the laptop. The Colorspace may be a question depending on the GPU and driver software. NVidia allows you to change the HDMI out to YUV or RGB with control panel. I have not seen that option with Intel’s panel. I will have to check. You will want atleast 8GB of ram in these laptops if you are going to edit at all especially if you have an Nvidia GPU that allows the hardware MPE. If the laptops only have the cpu Intel graphics then hardware MPE wont be an option.
Eric
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Decklink Mini Monitor. $145…HDMI/SDI out. You can send audio to the TV, or keep it on the laptop. VERY small. Rock solid with Adobe PPro CC.
Shane
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Those cards are PCI-E. This is a laptop. The Laptop would have to have an express card slot with a PCI-E expansion chassis. The Intensity Shuttle would be the Blackmagic option. I would check the results without first though.
Eric
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No, the Decklink Mini Monitor is Thunderbolt.
OH…I see, just DECKLINK MINI MONITOR is a card. It’s the DECKLINK ULTRASTUDIO MINI MONIOR that I’m talking about. Sorry
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/ultrastudiothunderbolt/
Shane
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The PC laptops with Thunderbolt are still limited that I have seen.
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Thanks for the info. The laptops will have 16GB RAM and will have a qualified Nvidia card with a Mercury compatible GPU so it looks like we can save on the additional hardware interface by using the on-board HDMI.
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One idea we are considering is to use MacBooks running Windows. Does this give us access to Thunderbolt still?
You might think it strange to use MacBooks and then not use OSX but there are various technical reasons why OSX will not integrate into the rest of our workflows and technologies without some major changes which I would like to avoid.
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Yes Win 7 supports Thunderbolt without any additional drivers. However using a MacBook with Windows predominantly is a considerable waste of money with far to many configuration limitations compared to PC laptops currently. I suggest you look at the PC laptops that have Thunderbolt first.
Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
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