I feel I already really need a 'Telly'; output to monitor 50Hz, 625 line, interlaced pictures & check for jitter/artifacting/aliasing/safe area etc  I cant stretch to a Mojo or other hardware, but I wondered if I could put another additional single output £100 GFX card on my mobo to drive a TV via S Video? 

Would this work IN ADDITION to having the current standard 2 monitor DVI 'editing ' Quadro 1500 output that lives on the current primary PCI Express 16 slot?  I have 2 spare PCI Express x 16 slots availible (earmarked for dual linked GFX cards I think) in addition to an 'Universal PCI e slot (max x 4 mode).

Thanks for any advice (under £100!!!)

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I know this question is a bit hardeware-y, but if anyone has any idea if i can run 2 GFX cards to gain 3 concurent Avid monitoring outputs that would be great.  Thx.  D

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The short answer is no. What you are referring to was once called the McFly method (I think that was it's name). This method is no longer dependable due to changes in MediaComposer's use of the GPU. You could use a DV deck or camera as a transcoder, though this too has flakey results. The only existing, fully supported and future supported method is the new DX line of hardware. But, the price of the Mojo DX is stupid, so don't even bother. You could pick up a Mojo SDI, maybe a used one. The Mojo SDI will work with v3.0, beyond v3.0 support hasn't been announced. Really can't help you with the under £100 request.

Charles

Thanks Charles.  A friend said something very similar.

I think my best course of action is to unhook one DVI monitor when grading and hook up an S Video TV set instead.  I think I can then configure my NVidia card to do one DVI out and an S Video out. 

If I generate a preset for the CCR Toolset that uses only one monitor and a preset for the GFX card output to be 1 analog TV and 1 DVI momitor then it may become usable rather than a pain to swop...

Thanks for your input.

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