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Monitors
I am just about to buy new monitors for my final cut pro system. I’m looking at buying dell monitors. I will buy one 24″ and am uncertain what to buy for the second monitor.
Should I buy a secon 24″ or will it be too much ‘mousing’ around the screen? Someone has advised me to buy a 17″ monitor to go along with the 24″. What do people think? Money is not an issue. I want the best set up.
Thanks
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8 Replies
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This is just my opinion, but I only buy monitors in these 2 set-ups:
1) A single large monitor that I can do everything on.
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2) Two identical monitors, side by side.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can not stand working on dual-monitors that are different sizes and resolutions. Even if one is just for bins or something like that, I much prefer to have everything the same on both halves.
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[Jeff Carpenter] “This is just my opinion, but I only buy monitors in these 2 set-ups:
1) A single large monitor that I can do everything on.
or
2) Two identical monitors, side by side.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can not stand working on dual-monitors that are different sizes and resolutions. Even if one is just for bins or something like that, I much prefer to have everything the same on both halves.”
Which in your opinion is better 2 dual 24″ or a single 30″ monitor? I use the system primarily for editign documentaries but do some corporate work which entails usign motion and live type.
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If you use two monitors make sure that your graphics card can support both at the same resolution. But imho one 24″ Dell is plenty big. I bought two but decided to use them for two different computers. Maybe someday if I embark on a huge doc I’ll use them both for FCP, but right now I prefer having two different computers so I can use one while the other is busy rendering or burning a DVD, etc.
— Bob C.
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I bought a 23″ Cinema Display and a 20″ Dell for bins, etc. After I got over how annoying it was that they dont match; it work out well. Only problem is I cannot get them calibrated equally. 20″ is close to the same vertical size as 23″ Apple.
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If you go with 2 duals get the 2 matching dells. For long form docs you can stretch the timeline across both of em and they will line up nicely. Better to be too big than too small.
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My opinion is that 2 24″ are better than one 30″ for most edit tasks.
For your documentary work you could have a Word script and your browser window open on one monitor and the rest of FCP on the other. For your corporate work, you could leave Motion or LiveType open on the second monitor if you are going back and forth often.
If you need to get really tweaky with parameters, you can create a window arrangement where the viewer window takes up a whole monitor by itself. This has made all the difference for me using FCP keyframes.
Good luck.
Tom
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Hi
Working with GarageBand is something of a pain on two 24″ Apple monitors – its the vertical height that means I’m constantly scrolling up/down the tracks when using the orchestral Jam Pack sound generators (which are absolutely excellent 🙂 ).
So for that I covet a 30″ display.
For FCP two 24″ screens are fine – too wide for everyday editing, but useful if I’ve got two big projects open at the same time for consolidating assets from project to project. -
Do you know we have a guy on these forums that actually uses 3 -30″ monitors! I saw one of his posts a while back.
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