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MAC DVI to SDI/componet for production monitor from FCP
G-5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nvidia Geforce 6800, 30″ Cinema DisplayI will be hooking up a new Panasonic HD professional production monitor (BT-LH2600W) to my G5. I only need to monitor from Final Cut Pro’s Timeline; no input or output needed (like from a Kona Card).
Panasonic monitor:
https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=97137&catGroupId=14625&surfModel=BT-LH2600W&displayTab=RThe monitor has (2) SDI SD/HD inputs
S-video input
YPrPb/RGB input (with input for VD-vertical sensing signal)It would be ideal to go to SDI since the monitor senses HD/SD signal and adjusts automatically.
G-5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nvidia Geforce 6800, 30″ Cinema Display
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[MtClimber] “G-5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nvidia Geforce 6800, 30″ Cinema DisplayI will be hooking up a new Panasonic HD professional production monitor (BT-LH2600W) to my G5. I only need to monitor from Final Cut Pro’s Timeline; no input or output needed (like from a Kona Card).”
No you still want true HD video from a video card, not from the DVI output. At the very least get a Kona LH for monitoring.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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What about a Matrox MXO. One concern is using it with my G5 and my MacBook Pro.
https://www.matrox.com/video/products/mxo/connect.cfm
G-5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nvidia Geforce 6800, 30″ Cinema Display
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[MtClimber] “What about a Matrox MXO. One concern is using it with my G5 and my MacBook Pro.”
someone else will have to chime in on that. I don’t use Matrox products.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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You can get a HD Blackmagic card for, what, $500? Then you are guaranteed to have a professional SDI signal to feed that monitor.
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Actually the lowest priced HD card from BM is $995. But it’s still the way to go over
using DVI out of FCP. As for using a Macbook Pro for HD monitoring, well
then you WILL have to use the DVI out into a converter like this one
if you want HD SDI output:
https://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=3874Dan
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Do NOT get that Gefen thing. It’s just a dumb converter. Your monitor output is NOT a real video signal and Cinema Desktop mode does not have the proper timing and colorspace as a real video signal would.
The Matrox product is different. It’s not just a dumb converter. It was specifically designed to achieve what you are looking for. It uses software and hardware so that the output signal will be a proper video signal. I haven’t used it myself, but I can assure you it was meant for this. The Gefen thing is not.
But of course get a real card instead if you have a desktop. Aside from economics, you get better features and you won’t lose a computer monitor in the process. The Matrox thing only makes sense for laptops.
Sean
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that is kink of what I figured. So if you have a G5 and a MacBook Pro, you will need 2.
Do you need this converter for the laptop if you will only be concerned with showing a finished movie, say quicktime or from the timeline to a TV?
I would probably use the laptop to take to places to show a finished Hi Def Movie.G-5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nvidia Geforce 6800, 30″ Cinema Display
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