Sending Quicktimes to an external display...

[ryansalazar]

Hello!

Our post production facility utilizes the Apple ProRes 422 HQ format. They open just fine in ProTools, but my issue is: I need to play the video out through a fairly high-quality device that will send to a broadcast monitor.

In the past, I have used devices like the Canopus ADVC-110, but it only worked in SD. It no longer appears to work on ProTools 9 at all. I need BOTH HD and SD video to output with the proper aspect ratio and full resolution. We now have an HD2 system on ProTools 9.0.

Any suggestions? I REALLY need the quality to be good as this will display on a large client display. I'm hoping to use an INTERNAL card to the system as opposed to a firewire device (preferrably with an SDI output, but I can accept HDMI) and looking for minimal video delay. It needs to be accurate...or really dang close it isn't noticeable.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Ryan Salazar

[axiom]

I was using a Canopus box but got tired of needing the files to be in DV format and SD.

I bought an ATI 5770 graphics card upgrade for my Mac Pro and now run three monitors, two 22" LCDs and a 46" LCD TV as the third. I'm able to run them from my machine room into the control room about 30 feet away using a dual DVI monitor extender for the smaller screens and HDMI for the bigger screen.

The 5770 has 2 display port outs and one DVI out. I use adapters from the display ports to DVI for the small monitors and a DVI to HDMI adapter for the big screen.

The videos look great on the third screen running in PT9 HD3.

[Vedat]

How about a Blackmagic Intensity card? They are PCIe, and have the options you are after.

[jimlongo]

Most of the Blackmagic stuff does HD, the Decklink line is extremely versatile.
I use a Decklink Studio card, it comes with a whack of outputs and a HDMI bridge.

[kptkarl]

Yep Blackmagic. http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/

We have both Decklink Extreme(under $1000) and Decklink SDI(under $300), the latter which is just SDI In/Out +Ref.

[ronwasserman]

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