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What Monitor To Use With HVX-200?
Our HVX-200 is arriving Monday and I am wondering what monitor to use for it. Most of our use will be in the studio. There will also be some location work as well. I imagine we will want a medium size (19″ or so) monitor for review. I want our clients to be able to see the image in high def when we’re shooting to that spec.
Am I looking for a video monitor or a computer monitor?
Can anyone make a recomendation?Thanks!
Martin Reuben
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I bought the Dell 2405 for this purpose. The picture looks great and this is probably the cheapest solution to see 1:1 pixels in HD.
Also beware that playing back footage from the HVX-200 OR viewing the footage live seems to result in the macroblock issue that everyone is in a huff about. Looking at the same footage later, when played back from an NLE system shows no macroblocks.
Could be tough to explain to a client looking at a monitor on a shoot that those dancing black blocks of pixels aren’t really in the signal. As far as we can tell, they are a result of a DSP issue when the camera is used to playback the signal or when the signal is passed through the camera to the monitor when viewing footage live.
Best,
Dan
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what do you intend to use to output to the monitor?
David S.
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I’m looking for a reasonably accurate monitor in the 19″ or so inch size that I can use to show clients during a shoot. Source will be directly from the camera itself. Both SD and HD material will be shot.
Martin Reuben
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[Dan Brockett] “I bought the Dell 2405 for this purpose. The picture looks great and this is probably the cheapest solution to see 1:1 pixels in HD.”
What input are you using to monitor the HD signal on the 2405?
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[Dan Brockett] “I bought the Dell 2405 for this purpose. The picture looks great and this is probably the cheapest solution to see 1:1 pixels in HD.”
How do you set it to 1:1?
1:1 works also with 720?
No stretching, scaling or overscan with analog component input?
Small letterboxing visible (monitor is 1920×1200)? -
Hi:
The analog component inputs are really the only choice.
Dan
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To set it to 1:1, you just go into the “image” menu and there it is, the image size control.
Yes, it will give you 1:1 with 720P, it looks like about a 17″ image on the 24″ monitor. Still looks good.
No stretching or scaling with the analog input unless you set it that way but at 1:1, it gives you whatever size you are inputting. You should seee how ridiculous NTSC/PAL looks at this setting, it’s tiny!
Yes, small amount of letterboxing with the 1080 input.
The Dell is not accurate, at least with the analog inputs (my HDLink has not arrived yet), but for shooting, it is accurate enough to frame and focus. There is nothing else in the $800.00 price range that is nearly as good.
Best,
Dan
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[Dan Brockett] “You should seee how ridiculous NTSC/PAL looks at this setting, it’s tiny!”
Same thing with my hp L2335.
Can you switch between 4:3 and 16:9 with sd? Or does the screen somehow smell from the signal what aspect ratio it has? -
Unless you get an SDI to DVI converter (which I haven’t tried yet). We find the analog component inputs don’t look so great. Smearing, pixelation etc..
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But how do you get signal out from camera in SDI?
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