Hey all,
I am helping a friend out who runs a production company here in LA. He has a modest edit bay set up at his office. Older mac G5 (not sure about the video card right off hand), feeding 2 20" lcd monitors. He would like to mount a 42" panel above the edit station so that clients sitting in the back of the room can view the content that the editor is working on. He would also like to send another feed upstairs (roughly a 50' run), to another panel in the conference room.
I am assuming he has the factory video card, and I am also assuming that this card only has 2 outputs. So my plan was to leave one of the outputs running straight to the main monitor that the editor uses to work in final cut. The other output will run into a Gefen 1:3 HDMI dist amp (using adapters of course). I will then run the outs of the DA to the second computer monitor, the panel in the edit bay, and the conference room panel respectively. I may need to use some baluns to get the feed up to the conference room.
I was planning to use an actual monitor (as opposed to a TV) in the edit bay, so that I would get the higher resolution. However, the panel upstairs has to be a TV, as the client wants a 65", and doesn't have 8-grand to spend on a monitor. I am assuming the the output on the computer that is being split will have to be set to the lowest common resolution correct? What about the other output? Can it be set separately?
Has anybody worked on a setup like this before? Any pitfalls you would worry about? Or perhaps any general advice?
All thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance,
JG
I am helping a friend out who runs a production company here in LA. He has a modest edit bay set up at his office. Older mac G5 (not sure about the video card right off hand), feeding 2 20" lcd monitors. He would like to mount a 42" panel above the edit station so that clients sitting in the back of the room can view the content that the editor is working on. He would also like to send another feed upstairs (roughly a 50' run), to another panel in the conference room.
I am assuming he has the factory video card, and I am also assuming that this card only has 2 outputs. So my plan was to leave one of the outputs running straight to the main monitor that the editor uses to work in final cut. The other output will run into a Gefen 1:3 HDMI dist amp (using adapters of course). I will then run the outs of the DA to the second computer monitor, the panel in the edit bay, and the conference room panel respectively. I may need to use some baluns to get the feed up to the conference room.
I was planning to use an actual monitor (as opposed to a TV) in the edit bay, so that I would get the higher resolution. However, the panel upstairs has to be a TV, as the client wants a 65", and doesn't have 8-grand to spend on a monitor. I am assuming the the output on the computer that is being split will have to be set to the lowest common resolution correct? What about the other output? Can it be set separately?
Has anybody worked on a setup like this before? Any pitfalls you would worry about? Or perhaps any general advice?
All thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance,
JG