[Ron Bourke]

I’ve been using the black magic ultra studio mini monitor breakout for years. First with a 2013 iMac and most recently with a 2020 27” iMac through a succession of media composer and Mac OS versions. No latency with audio or video in either case. I’m using the hdmi out to a Benro monitor. I pull the analogue audio off of the monitor which is not ideal but it works. I see that they’ve updated the mini monitor recently so if you’re using the new version could that be an issue?

[Ron Bourke]

I ended up buying a BlackMagic mini monitor box and it works great. Now I have a 3 monitor system. Bins on Mon 1, timeline and play/record windows on Mon 2 and full screen of the record window at full res on Mon 3. The only drawback is that the record audio is combined with the video feeding Mon 3 so monitoring audio is analog looping through Mon 3. I had a ground loop him and needed a litttle ground loop lifter to clean up the monitoring audio. All in all a good solution.

[Ron Bourke]

Thanks for the quick response Glenn! I have tried this multiple times exactly as you’ve stated – placing the MC Full Screen Playback dialogue box in one of the other monitors and hitting Select Monitor and it has never worked. No matter which monitor I’ve selected for full screen playback, it only comes up in monitor 1 – my iMac’s monitor. I’ve made sure all three monitors are set to 1920×1080 since someone mentioned that with Avid they need to be the same resolution. It was also mentioned in one forum that this works best when the 3rd monitor is input from a converter box from the computer to SDI or HDMI. I am thinking of trying a BlackMagic mini monitor box or just a display port to HDMI cable to see if using the HDMI input on my 3rd monitor would help. – Ron

[Ron Bourke]

I’m having the same problem. What do you mean by putting your bins in monitor 3? I tried dragging my bins to monitor 3 but this didn’t help. And even if it did, I wouldn’t be able to see my bins since the full frame playback would cover them up. Perhaps you meant something other than just drag them to 3? Right now, I can only get full frame playback in monitor #1, my iMac. I’ve got all 3 monitors set to 1920×1080 and avid show on each one. – Ron

[Ron Bourke]

I mean Shane!????

[Ron Bourke]

Thanks Shame!

[Ron Bourke]

Thanks Glenn. I have 4TB of files, 3 TB linked so I think the relinking will be the most practical. I am planning on using MacDrive on the PC. We’ll see how it goes… – Ron

[Ron Bourke]

Thanks for sharing. I agree about duplicate data and it is essential in my case since the two editors are 6000 miles away. It has been suggested that I use MacDrive so that the editor on a Windows machine can read the Mac drive I send them.