How many video projectors can I hook up to a Mac

[nizer]

I just bought 33 projectors in a bid and bought a triple head to go device. I'm curious how many I can hook up to Qlab and the Macintosh.

[Angus Turner]

Mac Pro's do around 6 outputs. With 6 triple heads you could get to 18 displays. Of course there's always the datapath x4 which does 4 screens so 24...

Not sure how many you could actually do before you start to skip frames.

Thanks
Angus Turner
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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:42 PM, nizer <ma...@nizer.com> wrote:

I just bought 33 projectors in a bid and bought a triple head to go device.  I'm curious how many I can hook up to Qlab and the Macintosh.

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[Andy Dolph]

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> On May 19, 2014, at 7:42 AM, nizer <ma...@nizer.com> wrote:
>
> I just bought 33 projectors in a bid and bought a triple head to go device. I'm curious how many I can hook up to Qlab and the Macintosh.
>

[nizer]

I have a MacBook Pro with 1 mini display port only (i.e.. Not Thunderbolt), so am I limited to a max of three output via the triplehead2go?

Thanks for any advice.

[Angus Turner]

Yup that's correct.

I've used a white macbook running a simple video through madmapper and a triple head before and it went pretty well!

Thanks
Angus Turner
angus...@gmail.com

[Andy Dolph]

at the risk of stating the obvious(which may or may not be useful anyway depending on what you're trying to do...) you can feed each output of the tripplehead to a distribution amp which will feed it to many projectors - you'd only have 3 outputs to work with, but you could have whatever you send to those outputs show up on many projectors at the same time....

Andy