Blackmagic

[Tom Gleeson]

I am running a Macpro with a rocket and a blackmagic deck link studio card. Should I be able to see the RedcineX output on my external monitor? I can with FCP6 and Resolve. All slots are used so I do not have the Rockets SDI extension card installed. Many thanks

 

[axel ebermann]

won't work. you need to go SDI out from the rocket to the monitor.
welcome to the world of MAC = the world of way too few PCIe slots....

if you do not mind drilling into your mac case you can just run an adapter cable
out and connect to SDI.

 

[Tom Gleeson]

Getting the drill out of the shed.

 

[Tom.Wong]

you could also get something like a quadro 4000 for your video card, so it's single width instead of a stock double width radeon, and the rocket sdi can come out of the spare slot.

 

[Luis Otero]

I go with Alex's option. My monitor has two HD-SDI inputs, so I do not have to be connecting/disconnecting cables. My question or request to BMD and/or Red: can the Rocket signal be funneled, somehow, to the DeckLink so a single output can be used? Anyways, if the hosting program uses the Rocket to debayer (like Resolve does), how is this "debayered" signal sent, and previewed in real-time, via the DecLink, but not for RedCine-X Pro? I mean, this cannot be happening by pure black magic....

 

[Rob Ruffo]

100% agree - I have a workflwo where I do quick grades in RedCineX and then edit with these in PRo, and tehn import the whole thing in Resolve for fine-tuning. I hate having to plug and unplug then replug