Connecting the Resolve two GUI screens

[Joseph Owens]

[Alex Frankland] “may I use the other two mini-display ports for a second GUI monitor? I merely want to use the second for the Resolve scopes.”

You probably only need to use one of them for a second GUI monitor and that is acceptable. Use of a second monitor is probably not that big of a performance hit relative to using the software scopes, which is also a contribution to overall load. I see you’re using a Q4000 for color processing, anyway, so you likely won’t see a difference in displayed frame rate.

Buy a 15-inch cheapie, unless you want starship-flight-deck appeal. Making the waveforms bigger doesn’t improve on the available resolution, anyway.

jpo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Alex Frankland]

Thanks for the reply Jpo,

So If i were to simply purchase another cheap monitor and connect it to the Radeon 5770 via single mini display port/DVI adapter along with connecting my Benq VW2420H monitor, of which is directly connected via DVI (both cards on Radeon). All should be good and I wouldn’t really have anything to worry about? Although… getting a set-up to look like a starship-flight-deck would be pretty cool 🙂
What display setup do you have?

– Alex

[Joseph Owens]

That’s what I’m sayin’.

Presto!Digital Colourgrade is:

System One (Final Cut) is ATI5770 GUI feeding a 23″ Apple Cinema Display and an HP 15″ generic (switchable between miniDisplay and the VGA output of a VideoTek TVM-900 scope. Switchable because I used to flip back and forth to the COLOR scopes for Secondary color-picking — but I don’t do that anymore with Resolve. Main monitoring is via Decklink SDI to a Flanders LM-2461.

System Two (offline) is more or less the same, but paired with a recycled NEC MultiSync 4FG that might be older than you. No, really it might be, well, it will be close.

System Three (AVID) travels, and is in another studio across town at the moment tied to a couple of expensive LaCies and another Flanders, but when its home it feeds a Samsung SA-300 series 23″ and a….er… cheap something or other… Acer V193.

Kind of a hodgepodge, but the information they display is all the same, and I don’t use anything but SDI-fed grade monitors for judgement.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[John Cox]

Does the TVM-900 provide YRGB parade?

[Alex Frankland]

[Joseph Owens] “That’s what I’m sayin’.”

Just purchased a second Benq VW2220H (2″ smaller than my Prime GUI monitor). Everything worked out just fine 🙂

Thanks jPo

– Alex

[Joseph Owens]

[John Cox] “Does the TVM-900 provide YRGB parade?”

Yes. It was a big item for me, as I had gotten used to that from telecine days.

The “Iris” legal gamut alarms are also very useful — nothing like fixing a problem on the spot instead of hoping a chainsaw legalizer will catch it later.

The only big mistake I made initially configuring the scope was leaving out all the audio monitoring and six-way surround displays, etc. I’ve sort of made up for that with the audio monitoring in the Flanders, but still not quite the same. Unfortunately not retro-fittable, and the option costs the same as an LM-2461 anyway, so I got a good grade monitor with my audio monitoring…. 😉

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[John Cox]

Joseph – Yeah. I noticed the various built in audio and video monitors when I checked out the Flanders and wondered if they were useful above/beyond those already present in the system. The specs on the 24 are pretty amazing.