latest solutions to monitor out for Mac

[Job Ter burg]

I think you will get much more feedback after Tuesday, when MC6 is launched. MC6 will allow you to use a lot of I/O boards from a lot of vendors (Aja, Matrox, Bluefish, Motu). There are many solutions for both towers and laptops.

[Craig Alan]

Thanks,

I will check back later in the week. I know the list will greatly expand.

However I am under pressure to submit a budget.

I thought MC 5.5 already had support for some I/O boards and boxes.

Will the AJA I/0 Express work for both macbook pros and MacPros?

Is there a board that will work for the MacPro?

Again my need is to monitor out for color correction. Other abilities would be a bonus not a must.

I just don’t have the luxury to have a budget that I will spend when ready.

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Alan] “Want to learn DaVinci Resolve for color correction. I use both macpros and macbook pros. Would the AJA I/0 Express work for all or do I need a capture card for the towers? “

DaVinci Resolve requires a Blackmagic Design capture card for SDI out. The AJA hardware is not supported and will not work.

Blackmagic has also just announced support for MC6 [link].

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Glenn Sakatch]

Get an Extreme 3d from Blackmagic. Its about 950 bucks, which is actually one of the cheaper “high end” solutions out there. It will work with Resolve, as well as MC 6 for both In and out. It also works with Premiere and Final cut . You will also need a second graphics card for Resolve to run properly.

Glenn

[Craig Alan]

Thanks Walter,
Looked at link. I don’t have thunderbolt or usb 3. I have a sata expresscard 34 slot and a tempo sata pro expresscard/34 (which I use for my media raid) for the macbook pros and obviously open pci slots in the macPros. So what would you recommend?

Use a pci slot and express slot for a usb 3 card?

I was leaning toward the AJA I/O express also because it would allow me to monitor out the KI PRO directly. But I’m glad you let me know about DaVinci Resolve’s incompatibility with it. Kinda strange that I’m more confused now than a year ago. Adds new meaning to “learning curve.”

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Walter Soyka]

Check out the DaVinci Resolve Configuration Guide [link]. It will explain your hardware options.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Craig Alan]

[Glenn Sakatch] “You will also need a second graphics card for Resolve to run properly”

If the [Glenn Sakatch] “Extreme 3d from Blackmagic” has SDI out what is the second graphics card for and which one do you recommend?

Not sure it matters but we are not using 3D or 2K only HDV, ProRes, panasonic P2.

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Alan] “If the [Glenn Sakatch] “Extreme 3d from Blackmagic” has SDI out what is the second graphics card for and which one do you recommend?”

Resolve does all its processing on the GPU. It was originally built for CUDA (thus requiring an NVIDIA card like the GTX 285, Quadro FX 4800, or Quadro 4000). The config guide suggests one graphics card for handling the operator GUI, one CUDA-enabled graphics card (with no monitor attached) for image processing, and the video I/O card for SDI.

You can work with a single GPU (again, see the config guide), but it does reduce performance.

Check out the COW’s DaVinci forum [link] — there’s a great collection of knowledge there, and you’d learn a ton just combing through old posts for an hour or two.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Craig Alan]

Thanks Walter. Didn’t know that Resolve had different requirements than just analog out to broadcast monitor or i would have posted on resolve forum instead. Under the gun to put in budget request and researching too many things at once. Still learning MC (switch from FCP 7) but know within the year I will be adding resolve lite for color correction. I have a Quadro fx4800 so I just need the other card and I should be good to go.

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Job Ter burg]

– I thought MC 5.5 already had support for some I/O boards and boxes.
It does. AJA Io Express (I/O) and Matrox MXO2 Mini (Output only).
– Will the AJA I/0 Express work for both macbook pros and MacPros?
Yes. But you get one HBA with the Io Express, so you’d need to purchase the other one separately. There’s a PCI HBA for your workstation and there’s an ExpressCard HBA for laptops. Make sure your MBP is one that has an ExpressCard slot.