Macbook Retina and Eizo Monitors

[Feyco Feenders]

Hey everybody, There is a question on my mind and I can't find a proper answer, to say it simple. I want to use a Eizo CG monitor as an external grading preview screen in Davinci Resolve, all in combination with my macbook retina. How to do this? Does OsX supportes to feed the monitor with 10bit?




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Feyco

 

[Christopher Barrett]

The Mac OS STILL doesn't offer any 10 bit output

I've had my Eizo for 5 years and have been frustrated about this a long time. Also, Resolve really wants to have a Decklink SDI solution to output a GUI-free, clean signal. You can't get a "Program Monitor" out of Resolve (like you can with NLEs) unless you have the DL card (or thunderbolt output).

So, really, for the Retina, you would need an HD-SDI capable monitor and one of BMD's Thunderbolt output solutions.

CB

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

You need something like the BlackMagic UltraStudio (comes in USB3 or Thunderbolt version) or something like the AJA T-Tap, which connects to Thunderbolt and gives you HDMI and SDI output - supporting 12/10 bits. And, of course, you will need to pick whichever solution is best supported by the software you're using. Matrox also makes products and AJA and BMD have more than what I just listed.

If you feed the monitor directly from the computer, via Thunderbolt/Displayport, as a secondary screen, it can work that way too, but as Christopher says, OSX itself doesn't support more than 8bpc.

 

[Mike Halper]

I have a CX240 (same as a CG246 minus what I feel are a few unnecessary features for me). I go Thunderbolt to Decklink HD Extreme 3D+ (in a Sonnet enclosure) to a HDLink Pro Displayport to the CX240 via Displayport cable. Calibrated using my i1 Display Pro with the Eizo Color Navigator software, which writes the calibration to a hardware 16bit LUT built into the monitor. Works great!

 

[Christopher Barrett]

Ha... I was thinking about this thread today and was imagining this multi-adapter solution that you've implemented. Very interesting. Any reason this wouldn't work well?