FYI, we run Video Satellite LE here at Dolby Creative Services with a Blackmagic card in an older Mac Pro, works great with our Quicktime videos. Our Satellites are ethernet clients on our Terrablock, but there's no good reason they couldn't just have a big fat scratch disk, either.
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Kevin
On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Stuart Lawn wrote:
> Even with a PC you can still only have 3 Pro Tools Accel cards in a Z800. If I were you I'd stick with Mac and trade up to the HDX card range. One HDX card is the equivalent processing power of 5 Accel cards. Then you can put a Blackmagic card in the machine and play HD Quicktimes from the timeline.
>
> Video Satellite is fantastic if you have
> a) An all Avid workflow
> b) Shared storage
> c) Deep pockets
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Terence Curren
> Sent: 12 March 2012 16:07
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Video Satellite? Black Magic Hyperdeck?
>
> We bought the expansion boxes a few years back. But I only did it because the mixers wouldn't go PC. It is much more economical to buy a PC with a lot of slots than to buy a Mac AND an expansion chassis.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
>>
>> Is that what you did? Not a bad idea, Actually. I wonder if I'd have to cross-grade all those damn plug-ins...
>>
>> Hmmmm
>> __________________________
>> Greg Huson
>> Chief
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:12 PM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@> wrote:
>>>
>>> <<I'm trying to find a better solution for picture with protools, without adding an expansion chassis. >>
>>>
>>> PC.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
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