Lang Elliott
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Shannon, do you mean ATI 3870? Or the
Obviously, I’m just looking for the least expensive yet effective way to enable a second monitor for “reasonably good” color grading.
An ATI 3870 costs about $200 and you’re saying it will work with two older 24″ ACDs. I already own one ACD and can probably pick up another for $500, but I would not have the advantage of good calibration of the monitor. Whole setup for about $700, but poor for color grading, right?
An MOX2 runs about $1600. Add to that a Dell 2409 for nearly $500 and and I’m up to a whopping $2100+, but I have the MOX2’s supposed capability to adjust the monitor for pretty decent color grading. And 5.1 audio output to boot, not to mention all the other I/O features that I probably won’t use.
An MXO, you’re saying, will work quite well with with two older 24″ ACDs. It would cost about $900 plus $500 for the monitor = $1400. The drawbacks? I can’t use the new LED Cinema Display and have only two channels audio out (I’d have to use a USB audio interface for multichannel surround).
Decisions, decisions! Someone tell me what to do. Are there any other obvious alternatives at this time?
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Right . . . but I’m asking if two monitors can be run from the single stock card, using the two different ports. On another thread, someone implied that one can use a MiniDisplay Port to DVI adapter and then run two apple cinema displays from the stock card.
If not,it appears that one solution is using the MXO or MXO2 with HDMI outs. I presume these would allow for dual monitor compatibility (are there other simple solutions?).
I do nature (mostly birds) in HD and will be working almost exclusively with quicktime movie files from my Canon 5D Mark II. For this reason, I really don’t need any of the MXO2’s fancy inputs. I only need a way to output to a 2nd monitor where I can do “reasonably accurate” color grading. From what I read, the Dreamcolor Display is full of quirks on a Mac. This makes the MXO2/HDMI monitor solution attractive.
Whatya think?