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Calibrating a second hdmi monitor
I have a MacBook Pro thunderbolt based fcpx edit station. Now I want to learn how to calibrate an external hdmi monitor for previewing color or at least close to it without paying thousands of dollars for an SDI monitor .
I got me a cheap 40 inches 1080p hdmi tv connected to bm mini monitor out. Now, how do it I calibrate the output to match as good as possible -
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You’ll need something like a Matrox MXO2 or Blackmagic box to do that. Matrox comes with everything you need to calibrate and all of the i/o duties you’ll need and it has HDMI out for our TV.
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Welll I got the Black magic Ultra Studio Mini monitor..
Willy Pimentel
Motion Graphics Editor
Macbook Pro 2011 thunderbolt/ TBolt Displey/ 2 SSD Hds /lacie Tbolt -
I’ve never used the BMD devices so I can’t advise ya on that. Matrox has all of that included and super easy to do.
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Way cheaper is to get a good 2nd computer screen like a 24 inch HP ZR24w and display the viewer on that. Because FCPx uses ColorSync the computer display is actually correctly displaying your video color space. Of course it still depends on your monitor being able to produce an accurate picture but I have the HP and must say it is extremely close to my CRT ref display. Not using an external video I/o also cause less strain on your system resources playing back all sort of source material.
Happy editing
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Well it is a great monitor my Only concern is that my mac is a MacBook Pro thunderbolt and I already have the Thunderbolt Display connected…… Is there anothe tooltip monitor that I can connect to this … Or better? Is there a decent cheap SDI monitor to connect it to the ultra studio mini monitor??
Willy Pimentel
Motion Graphics Editor
Macbook Pro 2011 thunderbolt/ TBolt Displey/ 2 SSD Hds /lacie Tbolt
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