External NTSC HD monitor

[Jeff Brown]

What kind of work are you doing?

-jeff

[Tylor Larson]

Motion graphics work for HD broadcast.

[Jeff Brown]

I’d suggest:
Blackmagic or AJA i/o hardware,
a Flanders Scientific, Panasonic, or JVC, broadcast SDI-HD monitor.
Hardware waveform/vectorscope if you can possibly afford it; I cheat a little by using a composite signal to an SD waveform monitor, but it still shows me where things are, and in real-time.

I’m sure there are other valid opinions & options, though.

-Jeff

[Tylor Larson]

which black magic card do you suggest?

[Jeff Brown]

I’m a little out-of-touch with the BlackMagic products; I personally use an AJA card (Kona 3). But if you don’t need SDI or analog capture, and not many of us do anymore, I think they have at least one output-only card. SDI and SDI-HD out is really the key; the broadcast monitors I know of don’t use DVI/HDMI. I’d also suggest that the monitor you select does native 1080×1920 (pixel-to-pixel, without scaling); that may require a 24″; but I haven’t been shopping for a few years.

-jeff

[Tylor Larson]

Thanks Jeff,
That really was helpful. i will keep that in mind about the SDI out only card. I didn’t know about the pixel scaling happens with consumer monitors.

TY

[Jeff Brown]

Tylor,
I also remembered that BlackMagic has an “HD ‘scopes on a card” card. Does require a 2nd computer to host it, but all in all could be a cost-effective way to get real broadcast-level hardware ‘scopes.
There might be others I’m not aware of…

-Jeff