I have a setup with both an Avid Mojo DX and a BMD card installed. The BMD card is in one PCIE slot and the host adaptor card for the DX in another slot.
With the Mojo DX switched off during computer boot-up, The BMD card works fine with Resolve or MC. If you look carefully at the top of the screen when MC loads, you'll see it detects the BMD card will happily use it as the external hardware.
With the Mojo switched on whilst the workstation boots, then MC will see that in preference to the BMD card during load-up. You cannot choose to switch between the BMD and the Mojo DX. The only way to do this (after Windows boot) would be to disable the drivers for the selected device, thus making it invisible to MC, . Avid will always use the Mojo if it's there.
I'm assuming the Nitris DX would behave in a similar fashion.
The Nitris DX at one of my client's had been having some issues, so just before the pandemic he bought a BMD Intensity Pro 4K and I was slated to install it for him, but then everything shut down and I haven't been back to his edit suite.Last week, he needed to capture some SD stuff and he said the Nitris behaved fine and so he asked me today if I thought it would be possible to have both at the same time? ("just in case", he said).I told him that the BMD card would do component in/out for SD captures, if needed, but he's reluctant to let the Nitris go.I would be concerned about conflicts with drivers or whether the PCI slot needed for the BMD is the same as the Nitris and AFAIK there's no way to tell MC which hardware to use for output etc, it's either on or off.Thoughts?--He's on PC if that matters.
kenton van natten, post-production mercenary
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