2 19″ monitors or 1 24″

[Blast1]

You have more real estate with two 19″ vs one 24″, if you wanted to extend the time line across two 19″s it would be about 29″ across a 24″ it would be about 22″, the 24″ is biger vertically but not by much, the pixel pitch is .29 on a 19 and .27 on a 24, personally I would go with two 20″ WS or two 22″ WS, it would depend on space available

[Sam In leeds]

it would depend really on what you are used to. If you were to try a single 24″ monitor and decide that there is enough space to work with, stick with that. Or, if you feel you need a little more timeline space – the 2 x 19″ widescreens would give more than enough.

Personally, I feel there is enough space on a 24″ monitor; any larger and it can take a while to adjust to the mass of space you have in front of you. I have used a 30″ Apple monitor for editing and it was simply too big to be honest.

[Redgum]

I agree with Rovers. 24″ monitor is fine with Adobe and a lot better than playing around with dual monitors (colour descrepancies, GPU power etc.) I’ve got a Dell 27″ which is simply the greatest having experienced all sorts of configurations over many years.

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[Steve Mac kenzie]

Thanks as always for the opinions, it makes my choice much easier.
Steve

[George Socka]

Problem with a timeline streched over 2 monitors is that the gap is ALWAYS just where you want to work. And if you press K while the timeline is playing, the CTI jumps to the middle – which is where the @#$#@#$ gap is. Very annoying. I have taken to making the timeline fit on just one monitor, and the rest of the windows on the other, but that defeats the purpose of having a wide workspace in the first place.

[Blast1]

The basic idea of saying how long a timeline can be is just to demostrate how much extra real estate there is with two 4:3 19s vice a single 24 wide screen even though there is a small break between them, the actual arangement of the elements is personal perference, personally I prefer various arangements of two monitors over a single large screen particually with multitasking a app like production studio, as far as color differences between monitors soneone else mentioned, it is basically asthetic as most color correction is done on external video monitors, in cases where I use AFX for computer graphics vice video I have one DVI monitor I calibrate for preview via a quadro card.
Another point can be that in most cases two smaller monitors can be less expensive than one large for a given usable area