digi003 with canopus

[garimpo]

Hello everyone,
I did search it, but I could not find the answer.
I am setting a small 5.1 mixing room and I was wondering if there is a problem using a Canopus advc and Digi003 rack (with complete toolkit) plugged in the firewire port of Mac Pro (the new ones with 8 core) ? Can they share a same the firewire port that comes with the Mac pro?
Will I need a extra firewire drive ?
All the audio and video files will be on internal hard drives. The will be no firewire drives.
Thanks.
Damião.

[FajitaTone]

no.

best to have a separate 1394 bus in the form of a PCI-e card.

[garimpo]

Originally Posted by FajitaTone

no.

best to have a separate 1394 bus in the form of a PCI-e card.

Thanks for your help!
Are any specific brand you recommend ?


What do you think of that?
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...ml/ul/P/umse/0

[infiniteloop]

I'd really recommend a blackmagic intensity pro instead of a Canopus. No need for an extra FireWire bus and a great HD video output.

[garimpo]

Originally Posted by infiniteloop

I'd really recommend a blackmagic intensity pro instead of a Canopus. No need for an extra FireWire bus and a great HD video output.

I red that blackmagic intensity pro uses the computer processors during PT video play back. Does that really make a different in terms of RTAS power in PT?
I will be playing mostly DV or Motion Jpeg A files in PT.
Thanks !

[mikevarela]

both have their plusses. I had a Canopus and loved it, but wanted to go native HD so now own the intensity - and I love it.

You're right about the processing on/off board. the Canopus processes the video itself, freeing up the cpu, the intensity does not. this fact alone makes the Canopus great bet.

I always used DV transcodes of projects, they can look great if transcoded at a high level, and of course they don't tie up the machine as much.

Another plus of the Canopus is that it's very easy to send one signal to the control room and another to the client for ADR or second viewing. I accomplished this with inexpensive s-video and composite cables.

Of course, as more projects become HD, clients (and us) like to see large full 40" displays with stunning picture. we've kinda been left out of this for a while.

[JeromeOD]

I use a Blackmagic on my octocore MacPro and running a ProRes in HD doesn't make any impact on my RTAS performance at all. It doesn't increase the RTAS usage meter - This shouldn't surprise as video is not an RTAS process. I leave 4 cores of the Mac available to do other tasks than RTAS and my system performance is great with the Intensity. I used to run a Canopus (I think everyone must have!) but this is much nicer. You can run multiple monitors with Intensity too - there's another RGB analogue output alongside the HDMI one, and you can use an active splitter on HDMI for very little money. Not as cheap as a couple of phono leads for composite, but very pretty pictures!

[garimpo]

Thanks everyone for the inputs ! I really appreciate it.


Damião.