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  • Which BMGK card?

    Posted by Peter Wolsey on November 15, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    About to put together a second edit suite for our wee company. We will be using FCP on a Apple Mac Pro 3gig 8 core Intel Xeon machine.

    We are currently cutting purely SD Digibeta material but will be converting to HD in the forseeable future.

    Forgive the ignorance of this question;
    As we have had good performance from the BMGK Decklink HD Pro card in our current system I want to use the same model in our new system – but do I get the HD Pro PCIe card or the HD Pro PCIx card? I guess the x uses the faster bus system (wandering into unknown territory here!) so would it be the better choice?

    Any suggestions? Thanks, Pete

    Paul Provost replied 18 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Pentti Kakkori

    November 17, 2007 at 6:22 am

    New Mac Pros use PCIe (PCI Express) buses only, so it’s DeckLink HD Pro PCIe you’ll need.

  • Peter Wolsey

    November 20, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Thanks Pena, most helpful.

  • Paul Provost

    November 21, 2007 at 5:59 am

    see kona thread above

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