Sean Oneil
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I’m a big fan of Highpoint Technologies. The cards can do RAID5. They also use multilane connectors instead of port multipliers. That means you can use any external enclosure with it.
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This may seem like an off-the-wall solution, but there’s one other alternative. Some of the latest and greatest ATI cards can still be found for the AGP bus. The problem is that they’re the PC versions. But there is an online community that flashes PC graphics cards with Mac firware, enabling it to work on a Mac. I don’t know much about it, but it may be worth googling.
Sean
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You need need the repeaters for any of the long cables. However, their REALLY LONG cables say “with built in equalizer”. It looks like you don’t need a repeater for those ones, although I’ve never tested it so I can’t say for sure.
I can only vouch for my setup. I run a 50ft HDMI cable from the back of the Mac to the repeater. Then the 10ft or so DVI cable that is attached to the Cinema Display plugs into the other end of the repeater. I use a DVI Male to HDMI Female adapter on one end, and the oppisite on the other end (HDMI cable is easier to run through walls than DVI cable because the connectors are small). It works great.
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[lasvideo] “I have checked around and the X800XT ATI board isnt available anymore, so I guess that discussed possibility does not apply to my situation.
“Try ebay.
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Steve,
Please, before buying the Gefen extenders, I urge you to try out the HDMI repeater from Monoprice which extend 100ft and only costs $25:
https://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10419&cs_id=1041907&p_id=2849&seq=1&format=2&style=The prices at Monoprice are so low it’s absolutely ridiculous. Not just that product, but the HDMI cables and DVI/HDMI adapters are dirt cheap yet high quality. This is what we use in our studio. Running 1920×1200 from our Macs (which are located in a machine room) to all of the edit bays without any issues.
I don’t work for them or know anyone there. I just try to let everyone know because their prices for HDMI products are like 1/10th compared to the norm while the quality is top notch.
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A lot of Pro Tools guys don’t even want the editor’s levels. They like to start with a clean slate.
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This isn’t just a Windows issue. A graphic artist we use a lot works on After Effects on a Mac but doesn’t have (or want) Final Cut on his machine.
It has cost my company time (and thus money) because we couldn’t send him the native DVCProHD files for several projects.
Avid and Media 100 in the past have provided “read-only” versions of their codecs. It would really suck if Apple didn’t at least provide that for ProRes.
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Like the good man said, Desktop Cinema Output is not a true broadcast video output. You need a Blackmagic card with HDMI output and use an HDMI to DVI adapter ($5 at monoprice dot com). Or get a regular Kona or Blackmagic card w/ HD-SDI out (so you can connect to VTRs) and also get the Blackmagic HDLink or AJA’s equivalent (forget what its called). Or just get the Matrox thing which is probably your best bet.
[todd reid] “I’m using a Samsung SyncMaster 940mv LCD TV/Monitor through my DVI output to monitor my P2 1080i footage and it works like a champ and looks good.
Am I seeing true HD?”
No. That monitor is 1400×900. 1080i is 1920×1080. Even though it will accept 1080i signals, it scales it down to 1400×900. You don’t want that in a professional environment. You can use it for 720p footage though.[todd reid] “How much better would a 30″ Cinema Display look?”Waste of money for your case. A 30″ from either Apple or Samsung is 2560 x 1600. So a “true HD” image will only show up in the middle of it with large black borders surrounding it. Pointless unless you work with 2K footage or you use it as your desktop display.
You want the 23″ which is 1920×1200. You can get the Apple one, or one of the countless others:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010190020+1309821328&name=24%22Sean
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I agree with Jeremy. 10-bit is too much for a FW800 under heavy workload. It can work great for certain situations, but when you start to fill the thing up with different clips, render files, etc., it becomes full and fragmented. Performance will dip considerably. And some people need more than 2 streams at a time.
It doesn’t make sense financially either. For a similar price you can get a 4-disk SATA array.
Sean
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[walter biscardi] “You should never use this tool except for place holders. Use Title3D for text within FCP, that’s a solid text tool. I don’t think Apple will ever update the Text Tool because Title 3D is already there.”
That’s not always true. I do a ton of EPKs that require lots and lots of slates. Opening up Title3D for every one of them is much too time consuming. The text tool is fine, but it would be really nice if I could use more than one font size in the thing.