SDI monitoring

[Chris Borjis]

The original matrox mxo did have SDI out, and was fed with the 2nd dvi out connector
but I don’t think that would work since the quadro is 1 dvi out.

There’s another quadro 4000 model albeit way more in cost that has
an SDI out connector.

[Shane Ross]

Matrox MXO…the original…is VERY old, and there are no current drivers for it. The AJA IO HD connects via firewire 800, but ONLY works with FCP Legacy. There is the MOTU V4HD…that connects via firewire 800 too. Could ask them if that works with PPro CS6.

The other options are Thunderbolt, and MacPro’s don’t have those.

Unless the MOTU option works…you are out of luck.

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[Petros Kolyvas]

What are in your two other PCIe slots?

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[Alex Gerulaitis]

Don’t think a V4HD will work unless it’s a DVCPro-based codec – other codecs are not hardware-accelerated, and I doubt they will play via V4HD at full frames if at all. FW800 is not a lot of bandwidth: monitoring through it will require compressing whatever is on the timeline, to fit in the FW800 stream. Oh, and there will be latencies.

A PCIe cage like Cubix or Sonnet might be the only solution if there is no way to take make a PCIe slot available.

Or a PC. Sometimes the only way out is through. 🙂

Alex Gerulaitis
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[Sean Pollaro]

red rocket and a fibre/server card

[Mike Squires]

Are you using both of the outputs of the Quadro? If not, you could possibly use the display port, get an hdmi adapter for it, and then a HDMI-to-SDI converter from BMD.

[Igor Jovcevski]

get an old miranda box off ebay if available, and if not, why not buy mine 🙂

works perfectly

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[Sean Pollaro]

forgive me for my ignorance but what is a miranda box? I’ve never heard of it? can this give me true SDI monitoring? how does it connect?

[Sean Pollaro]

I asked nvidia about this and they told me there wasn’t an SDI option on the 4000. the quadro has a DVI and an HDMI out. please forgive me as I’m uneducated on these technicalities but would the mxo work with the 2nd hdmi port if I used an hdmi to dvi adapter then went into the box?

[Sean Pollaro]

will this work? any opinions?