[Avid-L2] Re: Additional video card

I've had a fair amount of experience with this over the years. I ran MC with 4 monitors using high-end AGP and PCI cards -- and I do it now with 3 monitors on my z800 with an FX4800 and FX1800 cards (as they use the exact same nVidia driver).

While it is nice to have 3 or 4 monitors worth of "real estate" -- be prepared for the very real possibility of having to manually (and repeatedly) move your Source/Record and Timeline windows to the correct monitors every time you launch the application (regardless of your Workspace setting). The extent of this will be highly dependent on your preferred MC screen layout configuration -- as well as how your screens are numerically ordered in Windows' Display Settings -- and which monitor is your primary (Main) screen. There's a fair amount of trial and error involved in achieving the best possible result -- but some amount of compromise on your part will most likely be involved.

Additionally, while it is nice to have a different applications like an email client, Photoshop, Squeeze, Word or [fill in the blank] running on the third (or the third and fourth) monitors -- there is a nagging problem with Avid dialog boxes and status windows that spawn themselves in the background of applications running on those screens (screens that MC is not actual running) -- and therefore are invisible to the editor -- and some of them are important. I have discussed this with Avid a number of times and there seems to be no apparent resolution.

This, of course, may not be an issue for you -- as your post seems to imply that all monitors will be running and displaying MC -- but it's good to know this reality before you sink too much money on the extra card and monitor.

As for myself, I have largely given up on the 3-monitor approach -- unless I'm cutting a project that requires it. I currently run MC on screens 1 and 2 (from left to right) -- and run Black Magic Design's UltraScope on monitor 3.

Whatever you do -- you want to make sure that the second card you install is capable of using the exact same nVidia driver as your primary card. It's not that it can't work otherwise -- it's just that you don't want to invite yourself to a party or endless troubleshooting and disappointing performance.

Good luck

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Job ter Burg <Job_L2@...> wrote:
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> L.S.,
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> Would like to try and add a second video card to my home setup. It¹s an
> XW8400 with an FX1500. Would like to use that for Full Screen Display and
> timeline, and would like to have a third monitor for a bin monitor. What
> would be required, and what would fit in the remaining slots?
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> Job ter Burg, NL
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> skype: jobterburg
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