Sean Oneil
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For USB audio I ordered this:
https://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10311&cs_id=1031105&p_id=1614&seq=1&format=2Sean
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I’ve had this setup for a long time now, I just rewired another room and wanted to omit the Mac audio cable.
This is the USB extender I use:
https://sewelldirect.com/usbextenderhub.aspDon’t get it though. There’s no power adapter and I’ve had issues with it. That same website has newer and better ones (and cheaper).
For computer monitors, check here:
https://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=cat5e+hdmi&category0=The black one you see listed a lot are the ones I’m using. They work with most equipment. Not all. Some monitors don’t like it. Some graphics cards (port 2 on an X1900xt for example) don’t like it.
Gefen and others make much more expensive extenders. But people have similar problems with those as well. For me it was worth testing the cheap ones first.
Sean
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Thanks, good to know. My Mac is in a machine room, so running an extra audio cable is not cool. But I can get a USB audio adapter and that will suffice.
Sean
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Anyone familiar with this thing?
https://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s3elite.phpI’ve heard of colorometers, but didn’t realize there was one so inexpensive and mainstream.
Anyway, whether you have a Sony CRT, a Panny pro LCD, or a consumer LCD, if color grading was my bread and butter I would calibrate every monitor with a colorometer. Bars & eyeballs are not enough.
Sean
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The prices are amazing. Especially the sync generator.
Sean
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[Paul Factora] “Is it worth it to plap down a few extra hundred for the 7200 internal. “
Yes, it’s worth it. Major difference. It is the most significant upgrade you can make actually. The computer will start up a lot faster. So will programs.
Don’t expect to do any high end work on a laptop disk. You won’t have much space, and you’ll have to stick to compressed workflows.
Sean
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[walter biscardi] “You should be concerned about putting media on your internal drive period. NEVER put media on the system drive, whether it’s a laptop or a desktop machine. “
Well, that was 100% true up until around 10 years ago when Ultra ATA was invented. The ingest station at my place just grabs standard-def ProRes to the internal, which we then copy to a workstation array via ethernet. Been doing this almost every day for over a year and never once had a problem.
Sean
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[Shane Ross] “Matrox MXO is your cheapest option for uncompressed. Then the AJA I/O line. And that’s it. “
A third option is the Magma external PCIe enclosure.
Sean
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Forgive me, I thought we were talking about the x1900 for some reason.
Sean
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Mine came with one. Gotta be honest, you two aren’t using it, and you’re both having problems. Coincidence?
Sean