Hi,

I've been experiencing an issue when I use the quartz composer effects or any effect that has a vid CI as the playback engine I get a blank screen entirely. Like it would go from displaying a movie or a picture on my stage to just black when I add CI-kalida for example and even when I would check the little preview on the link it would show a empty transparency grid. I tried a bunch of different actors and a bunch of different combinations of ci to gpu or GPU to ci but it definitely seemed like anything that went through a ci or QC effect just doesn't work. I did a little bit of research and I'm wondering if it has something to do with the lack of a separate graphics card in the new m1 products?  I haven't been able to find another example of this issue on the forum so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.   I love these effects and would hate to lose them. 

I'm on a M1 MAX MacBook pro 

 Love you guys/gals/NBs!

Thanks! 

@bonemap
Thanks a lot Russell for your detailed answer.

The CalDigit TB3 Mini Dock might introduced a glitch in the GPU management, so an OS clean install would tell if the official USB-C > HDMI apple adapter finally works (solo).
Otherwise the issue seems to come from the GPU or the motherboard...

@DillTheKraut, Russell succeeded to send video through OWC Dock and passive adapter, so an active mini-DP adapter is not always necessary.
Other video technicians told me that the official USB-C TB3 > mini-DP TB2 apple adapter works fine with all their TB2 video adapters.

Best wishes.
Clement

I think you should be able to find a 'FFGL Tile' plugin that may replace the MultiVid actor, depending on your exact usage.
Try the 'FFGL Tile' actor in the oficial FFGL bundle first: https://troikatronix.com/plugi...

If you are fed up with the mbp touchbar check out My Touchbar My Rules https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR

Making your own is easy (json) and some kind of controller preset could have potential. The gestures feature is amazing

The default preset is almost perfect for every day. I just zapped out bloatTunes on mine

Re: [Questions before buying a MacBook Pro](/topic/2528/questions-before-buying-a-macbook-pro) 

I'm wondering does the same apply 4 years later?, are there still underlying questions on the new Macbook Pros (high end) or have they caught up re graphics cards, or/and handling a big show?

Hoping to buy latest Macbook in the last quarter.

Joe