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  • Posted by João Lisboa on September 27, 2020 at 12:10 am

    Hi all,

    I’ve been out of business for, quite, a while so do not send me stones, pls.

    My last Workstation had a Targa 3K…

    I want to do a couple of personal projects and decided to build a WS again.

    My source material will be:

    – 60% video files from a Nikon D800

    – 40% from Beta SD, DigiBeta and HDV archive.

    The projects will be edited on 1920*1080 and exported for DCP (DCP-o-matic), Blu-ray, and a PAL version for DVD.

    I want to have 2 large “menu” monitors in 4K each (for software) and a “Video Out” for a Television and/or a projector (HDMI in both cases).

    5.1 audio is also need.


    What should I connect to an NVidia board and what to connect to an I/O board.

    Advice on an I/O is welcome.

    Thank you,

    Eric Santiago replied 5 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • João Lisboa

    September 27, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    Maybe my post was confuse.

    My main question is:

    Where should I get the main “Video Out” for a Television and/or a projector,

    from the capture card or from the Nvidia?

    I will be using only 2 monitors for menus and the GPU will have 3 or 4 HDMI ports.

    And the 5.1 audio, from a dedicated audio board?

    Any advice, pls

  • Michael Gissing

    September 27, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    What editing software do you want to use? If cross platform then I would be using PC hardware with a Decklink card. If you want to use FCPX, then you must use Apple hardware. Your software choice determines your hardware options

  • Eric Santiago

    September 28, 2020 at 1:24 pm

    You can use cross-platform gear on the Mac side as well.
    There are high/low-end options.
    I use a BMD UltraStudio 4K for both Mac/PC at home and Avid Artist IO which is basically a BMD UltraStudio 4K Extreme.

    In the past, BMD Decklink PCI cards and yes for both PC and Mac.

    I use all of the above with REDCINE-X, FCP/FCPX, Premiere/AE, and Avid.

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