Blackmagic Decklinck Quad 2 on a mac ?
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Hello. thanks to this thread we know that the supercard Blackmagic decklinck quad 2 (8 3g sdi configurable in/out 1080p) works with Isadora in a tower pc. Anyone experience of it working on a mac ? I have a Sonnet USB-C cabinet that works well with another Blackmagic PCI card that allows Isadora to have 4 HDMI cameras captured at the same time. What about this one ?
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It does work with isadora on a mac and it works great. Ive done a few installs with this exact setup. I used the Usb-c Sonnet ePCI box and the Decklink quad 2. Works awesome. My limiting factor was that I could only use the 4 inputs that isadora allows so I set it up to take in 4 cams and to output over sdi to 4 output devices (projectors in my case). I did have to move over to qlab when I wanted to get all 8 inputs into the computer (a mac studio with the Sonnet box).
Isadora 3.08 + 3.1.1 | Mac Pro (Late 2013), macOS 10.13.6, 3.5GHz 6-core, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, Dual AMD FirePro D500s | Macbook Pro (Retina, 15", 2016), macOS 10.15.5, 2.9GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, Radeon Pro 460 4 GB | Windows 10 GTX1080 Intel i7
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@josharoo4 said:
Also, I should say that it also works great to output 8 separate video feeds. I had a video art project up that was using 8 outputs via the Decklink quad 2 and the Sonnet and then 4 outs from Izzy via thunderbolt to HDMI adapters for a total of 12 outputs. Ran very smooth and had almost everything at 1080p29.97. One issue I ran into was that I did need to reassign or toggle the Blackmagic outputs each time I restarted the machine. Went into the Stage Setup menu and just unclicked and reclicked the checkmark for each Blackmagic output each time.
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@josharoo4 SOrry not sure have understook I had the 8 outputs Plus I have a 4 hdmi blakmagic input card on the same sonnet ahd they live together and are recongnizerd by the desktop video software... You couldn't activate the 8 outputs ?
