Alex Gerulaitis
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The motherboard has a negative recommendation from BMD as they specifically say that “Blackmagic USB 3.0 Desktop Video products can be used with USB 3.0 PCIe expansion cards, provided they are used with an Intel P55 or X58 based motherboard.”
Yours is a P45?
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Alex (DV411)
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Methinks that particular drive is having issues with that particular dock. My girlfriend says it happens to her all the time.
Alex (DV411)
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[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)
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Please send me your contact info (just an email address is fine I guess) to ag at dv411 dot com
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[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)
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SATA III is backward compatible with SATA II (or the original SATA for that matter), so you should be able to pop your SATA III SSD into a Mac Pro and format it, no problem. If for some reason you can’t, it’s not a problem with SATA III – it’s some other issue.
Alex (DV411)
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IStoragePro IT8SAE6G. They also have a 3G 16-bay version available, not sure if the 6G version is shipping yet. About $1400-1500.
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