I am an independent filmmaker mainly music based. I set up my studio about five years ago for an animated feature film. I bought the only HD camera I could get at the, time a Sony V1 with the Adobe suite and Cineform (now Neo 4K) for real time playback. My studio is mainly Windows based because I use 3DS Max for the animation but I use a Mac for the soundtrack running Digital Performer and a Motu 828 mk3 in a 5.1 setup. This is all networked together and has grown organically. Some of the music cues are quite hard to see on a small image which is all that DP can manage when I’m using 20 or more tracks. It’s only a dual 2.8 GHz iMac. It can handle the music but not full screen video as well. I can output the HD to a big screen from the Windows machine but would like to do the same from the Mac. Can the two machines be synched together in some way or is there any hardware I could add to take the load off the Mac? I know Motu are working on something but its not there yet. My budget is running low now that this film is nearing completion.

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Sound is just light that has been slowed down a lot

You should be able to synch the two machines via timecode or MIDI SPP.

What do you use for video playback on the PC? Can it generate one of these formats?

I playback in Premier CS5 using Cineform (not the Mercury engine) which gives me full HD in real time even on my ageing system. Premier doesn't output timecode as far as I know. Is there any software than can?

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Sound is just light that has been slowed down a lot

You could try Reaper. It will generate either timecode or MIDI SPP, but you'd need to render the video to a file, then load that into Reaper for playback.

Ideally you'd want to generate the timecode from Premiere. I've never used it, but I'm surprised to hear it doesn't have that facility.

Thanks but Reaper is just a DAW much like Digital Performer. I link to Live with Reason easily enough between machines and platforms. The audio side is fine it's the video end that I need to send or recieve code.

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Sound is just light that has been slowed down a lot