Marc Wielage wrote:Jernej Rozenberger wrote:I'll see if I can live with it or if a DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K will be a necesity in the future.
$150 for a Mini Monitor sounds cheaper than $600 a year for Adobe CC. That's assuming I do my math correctly.
Yeah, Mark - $150 really isn't that much. I've been following this thread with sort of amusement, as - at the time over 2 years ago, when I was starting my Resolve affair - I also went through all those efforts to force Resolve use the secondary Windows monitor as a proper 10 bit reference viewer, connected to my (then Quadro) nVidia card. And like most of us, I quickly understood a BMD video output card is a must - especially when I started my early HDR experiments (which became a routine workflow by now) - period.
But my "amusement" abruptly stopped today when - after I launched Resolve this morning - I saw my $1,000 Decklink 4K Extreme 12G with HDMI went bad
The issue is that - at random time and places all over the screen - thin (1-pixel wide) vertical rows of varying length appear. They consist of white-illuminated pixels; since those white pixels go on and off, they look like sparks – but not isolated ones, only forming the above-described “vertical rows”. Arghh....
I had to go with (then) the highest Decklink model because I do a lot in UHD/4K @50p, so the $150 Mini Monitor wasn't up to the job (25/30p max). Frankly, my Decklink card is still THE single, most expensive component of my workstation (even though I build a new one in the meantime, with high-end components as per my signature). Now - as I cannot use one of my Titan Xp GPUs to drive full-screen preview - I'm out of business with Resolve until BMD hopefully acknowledges and RMA-replaces my Decklink on Warranty (otherwise I couldn't afford a new one atm
)...
Piotr
AMD TR 2990WX CPU | MSI X399 CARBON AC | 64GB RAM@XMP3200 | 2x RTX 2080Ti GPU | 4x 3TB WD Black RAID0 media drive | 3x 1TB NVMe RAID0 cache drive | SSD SATA system drive | AX1600i PSU | Decklink 12G Extreme | Samsung UHD reference monitor (calibrated)