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Thunderbolt splitter?

We have a Macbook pro with one thunderbolt output and thats it. We need to be able to have our blackmagic ultrastudio mini recorder record to the laptop and have a video out to a monitor. The blackmagic requires a thunderbolt cable on the computer side so we can't adapt to hdmi and then split it from there. Is there any thunderbolt splitters out there or are we going to have to resort to buying a whackton of adapters just to make this work.

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I don't think that will work, the display is a VGA display and the blackmagic recorder needs thunderbolt in, if I could just split the thunderbolt into two signals I have a thunderbolt to VGA adapter that would work perfectly but I don't think such a thing exists

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You can only daisy chain thunderbolt if the accessory device has two thunderbolt ports on it.  I don't think the Blackmagic recorder has 2.

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You can only daisy chain thunderbolt if the accessory device has two thunderbolt ports on it.  I don't think the Blackmagic recorder has 2.

No it doesn't

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