This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] MC6 & 3rd party hardware, best path for future?

Monday, December 19, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] MC6 & 3rd party hardware, best path for future?

Thanks Bogdan, Though I don't plan to buy an HD deck anytime soon, I
suspect I'd want more than monitor-only. In an increasingly tapeless
world, it's atough call. -P

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>if it's for monitoring only, have a look at the Matrox MXO2 mini.
>Choice will also depend on what type of monitor you are planning to use.
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>cheers,
>Bogdan Grigoresco
>Sr.Engineer, ACSR DS/Unity
>www.finale.tv
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>--- On Mon, 12/19/11, Paul Dougherty
><<mailto:lists%40postlit.com>lists@postlit.com> wrote:
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>From: Paul Dougherty <<mailto:lists%40postlit.com>lists@postlit.com>
>Subject: [Avid-L2] MC6 & 3rd party hardware, best path for future?
>To: <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Monday, December 19, 2011, 6:11 AM
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>I now run MC5 on a MacBook 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo as software only. I'm
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>researching a 3rd party hardware solution for HD video playback to
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>share with a yet unknown 2nd cpu I'll get in 2012. Bear with me but
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>with the arrival of MC6, this is all new to me. (Yes I also use FCP)
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>In a home-studio setting where a do half of my work (lots for the
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>web) I don't have a burning need for proper HD video monitoring.
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>That said, an affordable solution for this using 3rd party hardware
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>is within reach.
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>Next year I'll replace an old G5 with a new CPU, not sure if it will
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>be a MacPro. In theory it would be nice if 3rd party hardware could
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>work with *both* the MacBook and the tbd CPU. I've only just started
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>the research and things point to a Kona i/o box (and a ExpressCard or
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>x1-lane PCI interface) or some kind of Kona-like card that lives in a
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>external expansion chassis (so it's share-able and not stuck inside a
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>cpu). I'm just starting my research, pointers very welcome.
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>Best,
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>Paul
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>P.S. I don't know how/where it might get used in the mix but I also
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>have a Mojo SDI I use with the G5 running legacy MC.
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