Will Blackmagic ever let us monitor externally?

Question

We're on Blackmagic Intensity Extreme and all works well with PP and AE (CC2014) but it is really unfortunate that because BlackMagic have DaVinci as their own grading package that it seems like they will never allow an external output from speed grade, in fact trying to find info was extremely depressing when I was finding so many people out there having issues with Blackmagic/Speedgrade.
I contacted BM to ask why and they were either playing games or completely stupid as they said they did not know what Speedgrade was.
I would say the later, because what company in their right mind would not know about their competition??
Seems like a great time for other i/o companies like Matrox/AJA etc to unite and offer a good deal on trade ins??
Anyone have a better solution to BM and/or external monitoring for ALL CC2014 apps?

Answer 1

I think you may be correct about BM ... they certainly make good hardware and all sorts of interesting stuff too (including camera gear to drool over) ... but at NAB in Vegas this March, the Blackmagic "booth" was the next one down just across the aisle from Adobe's LARGE area, where the changes to Speedgrade was one of their featured headers. Adobe's "auditorium" actually faced right at the BM booth, so you could stand in the aisle in front of BM and hear/see the Adobe presenters talking every half-hour about a different Adobe program. Naturally, Sg was the program under discussion quite a few times during that multi-day event. So there's no way the tons of BM staff there handling questions on all their gear didn't know what was going on at Adobe. You'd think their online staff would be adequately prepped to handle things ... the Adobe staff and allied presenters at NAB were certainly very aware of the capabilities and predilections of every competitive program out there. Had several discussions with both presenters & Adobe staff on such things standing in the aisles.
Further, all the people going forth & back between programs & gear companies constantly phrased questions in terms of "Y program does this and this, but can't do that ... how does your program/gear work compared to theirs?" I'd think that any competent knowledgeable person in "colour-grading" will know of such things as Colorista, Avid, Speedgrade, AeFx, Resolve, and several others.
Blackmagic certainly knows Speedgrade exists ... and to be honest, I talked with a number of people who use Bm gear and some software that are very frustrated, and spent time talking with Matrox and AJA about changing the monitor-control handling setup in their workstation/s. Personally, I've seen fewer problems listed on these & other boards from people running Matrox stuff than either AJA or Bm. I've no personal experience with the items, though I am considering my next upgrade being a Matrox box ... so take my comments with a good handful of salt.
neil