I have a macpro not trash can and I have both a Nitris DX and a BMD SDI card to run Resolve. I mostly online with an occasional offline. I leave the NitrisDX turned off unless I'm outputting to tape. The noise is enough to annoy me. Given I can't output to tape properly through the BlackMagic card, or any BM card without it inserting a black frame and being one frame out of sync from the timeline (insert Rant/Dissappointment here), I'm glad I have the NitrisDX and there are the occasional universal mastering needs which include taking a 23.976 project straight out to 59.94I in real time, which can only be done with a NitrisDX. Given the initial 5K cost I don't know if it was really worth it but to make my system somewhat Avid future proof I went Nitris over Mojo or an aja product. Sounds like you've got a good deal but I don't really think you'll find your system much snappier. It will be less glitchy with the Avid hardware for sure but snappier is in the eye of the beholder. I might not notice the sluggishness of the BM card on my system as I don't spend a lot of time offlining so someone else can comment on overall trim response etc... I do know people have complained about trim and other response issues with BM on other third party hardware.
---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <ph@...> wrote :
It seems a good price (about €1000), but I wonder if Nitris DX would make a big difference for my day to day editing. I cut mainly features and docs, so not many effects involved apart from the occasional color-correction of fade to black, or subtitles. Most of my work is still HD - at the moment - as 8.3 and DNxHR are still a new thing. And even when I work with footage originated on Alexa or Red (used Resolve to create the DNxHD media), we offline at DNxHD 36 or 115 in 1080p.
What I'd really love is to have a machine that feels snappy and responsive when I click here and there, and doesn't feel like it's coming to a grinding halt when I engage (occasionaly) the capslock key or when I lasso into Trim mode. And with the Matrox, it always feel like they're one driver behind the current Media Composer version...
I've also looked into what Nitris DX does with the new HR rez, and (correct me if I'm wrong), it turns it into HD "on the fly". Which would be fine for me as 4K monitoring is still a couple of years away for most offline editors. Does it do a good job at that?
And last but not least... Since the equipment is in the room where I edit, how noisy is it?
Thank to all Nitris DX owners (and users!) for your feedback.
Pierre
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