MXO with MacBook pro- basic questions

[Shane Ross]

I use it with my Powerbook…no MacBook Pro yet. Not until this one dies…

MXO is still not compatible with Color…on any machine. They are working on it. And the MXO works with the older MBPs, but the newer ones…the ones that JUST came out…it doesn’t work with…yet. Apple switched from ATI to NVidia and Matrox is working on drivers to fix those issues.

[Ed Dooley] “Also thinking of using one 24″ Dell 2407 with MBP closed,
and using F12 to toggle between FCP and video. Is it as easy as it sounds?”

Yup…that easy.

[Ed Dooley] “I’d like to use a 24″ for FCP and have a 2nd 24″ for video monitor, but it doesn’t sound possible”

You might be able to with the Matrox DualHead2go box. I am playing with that device now. It takes one DVI port and spans it across TWO monitors…boosing the resolution so that instead of 1920×1200, you get 3840×1200 and able to span the image. But then you can’t use the Matrox MXO for the video monitor on one of those. Nope…there are limitations to having a laptop…and freedoms.

Shane

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http://www.lfhd.net

[Ed Dooley]

Thanks Shane,
I’m so used to looking between timeline and video monitor on the fly with my SD projects that I’m not sure if I’ll be able to toggle back and forth without losing some of the feel (you know what I mean? the stop and go switching between modes).
I saw this on the Matrox user forum about the DualHead2Go. As you probably know, the DualHead2Go requires a VGA port, not DVI (the response was from a Matrox employee):

>>>Can I connect the macbook pro 2.33 with a DualHead2Go and the MXO and get two external monitors without any kind of trouble?<<< >>>No, The MXO requires a dedicated DVI port to provide all the benefits of Mastering Mode. <<<