Where to Begin

[Craig Alan]

[Kevin Cannon] “Tangent Wave and the Avid MC Color”

will tangent work with composer 5.5?

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.

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Craig Alan] “Is there a breakout box (MATROX?) that could replace the two cards? The reason I’m asking is I’d like to be able to move set up to different computers — home and at work and on the road.”

(Didn’t see anyone else responding to this so I thought I’d try.)

Unfortunately, no: the two cards are too distinctive in their functions (computational power, video I/O), and no such card exists for DaVinci Resolve.

[Craig Alan] “If possible, I’d like the breakout box to function on both a macbook pro and macpro. The macbook pro does have ExpressCard/34 slot.”

That’s good thinking: potentially, you could put both of these cards in an expansion chassis like JMR SilverStor or Magna, and connect it to nearly any system including a laptop with an ExpressCard/34 or Thunderbolt (when and if it allows such connections). There is a question of whether a 16x card such as Quadro 4000 will work via a 4x interface with an MBP – and then there are always compatibility questions with using an expansion chassis.

[Craig Alan] “One more question: Do you think that thunderbolt will effect any of these choices? Will it allow for cheaper better breakout boxes, interface with a broadcast monitor, etc. I know it does look like the future of array connections. And unlike other things Apple (FCP X), it is backwards compatible.”

Yes if it becomes more adopted by 3rd parties. As of right now, there are very few compatible products.

Alex (DV411)

[Craig Alan]

Thanks very much for explanation.

[Alex Gerulaitis] “Yes if it becomes more adopted by 3rd parties”

Just to be clear, it may become possible to send a true TV signal to a broadcast monitor via thunderbolt, if you have the right CUDA graphics card; that is it could replace the need for Decklink Extreme 3/3D/3D+?

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.

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Craig Alan] “Just to be clear, it may become possible to send a true TV signal to a broadcast monitor via thunderbolt, if you have the right CUDA graphics card; that is it could replace the need for Decklink Extreme 3/3D/3D+?”

I am not sure (somebody help please :)) if “sending a true TV signal to a broadcast monitor” is related or tied in to “having the right CUDA graphics card”. The CUDA card may help with the smooth playback via a video I/O card, but generally, these are two separate things.

In other words, something like an UltraStudio 3D is certainly able to output a true TV signal to a broadcast monitor via Thunderbolt; it is not necessarily tied in with having a Cuda card in your system – unless Resolve requires that.

My understanding is also that Resolve is fairly agnostic to which BlackMagic card is in the system as long as it meets certain requirements – so it’s entirely possible UltraStudio 3D will work with Resolve.

One word of caution about Thunderbolt: there is no way to connect a Thunderbolt product to a Mac Pro yet. In its current flavor, it is simply not designed to.

Alex (DV411)

[Kevin Cannon]

[Joseph Owens] “At first, I thought this title was a kind of inside joke”

I can’t find an definitive answer to this, but it might refer to the color-coding of scenes in “Murder on the Orient Express”…

…might…

KC

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[Joseph Owens]

Actually, the definitive answer is in Patti Bellantoni’s book itself. Page 192. Purple can also be about ambivalence, duplicity, transformation…

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Craig Alan]

She gives ample examples of purple representing death in movies. Just as in life, purple/death can also represent renewal or transformation. This motif of death becoming life plays well for any symbolic reference to death and is a common archetypal character/symbol in spiritual, mythological, psychological stories.

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.