We have approx. 20 bays running a 2nd video card where I'm at and just last week they discovered with a multicam show at 10:1 m if they switched the monitors choice to 16x9 to get the full screen on the 2nd video card to display properly it stutter on the full screen playback. Dragging the full screen to the main video card monitors played okay. Maybe the 2nd card was a little under powered but this was all SD so I don't know how it would be with HD.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
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> Matrox MXO2 Mini is about $445 and has HDMI or YUV. Even better, the AJA IOExpress, which is typically about $995, but I've seen it for less - has SDI and HDMI in and out. Those are the only 3rd-party hardware boxes right now. In theory, you should be able to add another graphics card, but it can be funky and I don't believe is officially supported. We had a Resolve (which uses two graphics cards) sharing a CPU with an Adrenaline, and the Adrenaline worked, but didn't like the second graphics card- especially during capture. Moving resolve to its own CPU- we went to Nitris DX and there certainly aren't enough slots for both.
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> If it's just monitoring, try the Matrox - anything more, IOExpress.
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> On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Michael Kedor wrote:
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> > Hi Group,
> >
> > I searched the archives and didn't come up with anything current.
> >
> > I currently have a 2 monitor setup, and want to add a 3rd for client monitoring for my 8 core Mac Pro. I've looked at the Matrox boxes, and the Mojo is too expensive. I simply want monitoring. I'm not too concerned with deck outs, etc. I've seen some older setups where people used a second video card. This seems like the frugal way to go.
> >
> > Can someone suggest either a video card or a breakout box that I can send a full screen signal out to a third monitor 42" plasma that won't break my low budget freelancer bank?
> >
> > I'm running MC 5.0.3 (upgrading later this year)
> >
> > Thank you all for your gracious knowledge,
> >
> > mikedor
> >
> >
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