Choice of Video I/O PCiE Card for Mac Studio

[Felix.di...@me.com]

Hi everybody,

the powers that be are opening their satchels. hooray...

so now I'm speccing a qlab computer for sound and video. Important: We need 4 Projector outputs (preferably 3gSDI) , at least 2 inputs (3gSDI) and one monitor HDMI. As little Latency as possible...

I contemplated going the Mac Pro route, but I now prefer going the Mac Studio and sonnet echo II DV direction.

the Question: Should I put 2 AJA Kona 4s into the PCiE Slots or 2 Decklink Duos? Are there any Qlab reasons for preferring the Decklinks?

Thanks,

appreciating any $0,02 

[Richard Williamson]

I don’t believe QLab supports AJA kit at all so you would definitely be better off with BMD Decklink cards - we use the 8K ones in Mac Pros and they are great, bear in mind the outputs are only synchronised if you treat the whole card as a single surface, otherwise they will be slightly out 

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[Chris Ashworth]

That’s correct, QLab doesn’t currently support AJA.

(We are interested in adding support, although their relationship to developers was somewhat onerous in the past. However I believe that has changed since the last time we looked and, long story short, we’d like to add support for AJA, although I don’t know when.)

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[Felix.di...@me.com]

Thanks everybody!

[five...@gmail.com]

Hello.   

  Is the Sonnet Echo 2 a thing that can work with QLAB?   I am also looking to seeing more than 3 surfaces and would also like to keep the Mac Studio to do it.  Hopefully not have to go the MacPro route, ( tho its not off the table )

Gus

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[Sam Kusnetz]

What’s compatible with QLab is the video I/O card itself, not the PCI chassis. If the chassis supports macOS and Blackmagic video cards, you’re good to go.

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