This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Laptop MC/Resolve setup

I did a little research on the black magic products and express cards and the problem for my MBP the express card slot was the 1.0 standard and didn't have the throughput for me to run an express card to USB 3 card and drive a BlackMagic product. BM tech support got back to me within a day to say unless you have USB 3 built in or thunderbolt they didn't have a solution for a laptop. Perhaps this changed in the last few months but I'm not aware of any new products.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb wrote:
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> I believe that there's only one qualified laptop for some of their USB3
> products.
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> http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/detail/faqs?sid=3958&pid=3966&os=win
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> I'd stay away from this type of solution. You can always try it, but make
> sure that you have a Renesas USB3 chip in your laptop.
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> As far as using both MC/Resolve on the same PC, I can confirm that it works
> with a decklink studio 2.
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> As far as PCIe on a laptop, I'm assuming you're looking at a solution
> involving expresscard+ PCIe expansion (magma etc). This is definitely not
> supported and I doubt that many people have put much into figuring out
> whether it works or not.
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> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Steve Hullfish
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> > All I can attest to is that with a MacPro, I definitely share my BMD 3D
> > card between MC6.0 and Resolve 8.0.
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> > No clue about PC. No clue about laptop/PCI Express. I doubt there's a USB
> > video solution.
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> > I'm pretty sure that the AJA IO - the one before the IOXT - ran off of PCI
> > Express. I definitely had used that for MC.
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> > Really, the only support for Resolve for video out is BlackMagic products,
> > since they own Resolve.
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> > Steve Hullfish
> > contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> > author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
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> > On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:57 PM, jeppesvendsen jeppesvendsens@...>
> > wrote:
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> > > Is it possible to make a laptop setup with MC 6.5 and DaVinci Resolve
> > sharing the same video I/O?
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> > > My idea is to be able to output SDI or HDMI on both platforms using USB3
> > or PCI Express. Is that possible?
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> > > I know Black Magic has a thunderbolt solution supported by MC but since
> > I'm a PC user this is not really and option yet. Or is it?
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