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Dual monitor setup
Curious if anyone has this particular setup. It seems so obvious but I’ve never seen it so I’m wondering if I’m missing something.
I have an older 20″ Apple display. I want to get a second smaller (and cheap) monitor for my fcp browser. And then I thought – what if I got a widescreen monitor that could rotate so that I could see more of my browser instead of scrolling as much.
Anyone do this? Curious what second monitor you are using.
Thanks,
PK
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4 Replies
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I have Apple’s 30″ and 23″ as asetup, I put a stand under my 23″ so the tops line up. This is really a personal thing.
You will probably pay more for a monitor that rotates, I had a b&w Radius monitor years ago (MacII ci days) and love it for desktop publishing.
One thing to watch out for is lower priced monitors don’t have the pixel count so things are really big on screen. You will notice that a Samsung 22″ and 20″ widescreen with have the same resolution so you get no more image on the 22″ everything is just bigger. (BTW – the 20″ is $299 at Sam’s and is a great monitor for the price, I believe it has both DVI and VGA inputs also)
but as for setting them up there is nothing to it as long as your video card supports to and other than other iMac and minis there have been for years starting with G3’s.
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https://www.barefeats.com/lcd.html
Don’t have one myself, but it seems to address your needs.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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I have two Dell 2405 24″ monitors. I use one for my browser and all my bins, and the other for my Viewer, Canvas and timeline.
This is a pretty standard setup.
Shane
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Thanks to all for the replies. I really don’t want to spend much given that I only need it for the browser. I don’t need anything fancy.
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