good screen for video work

[Chris Poisson]

The Dell screens are very good. I have several Samsung screens which I love. And they are about the same price as the Dells.

Have a wonderful day.

[Shane Ross]

[Sascha Engel] “what is another good monitor for video work and reasonibly trustable in colour grading.”

So you are talking NOT computer monitor, but production monitor for HD good for color grading? For $1000? Do you have a capture card to send the signal to this monitor?

You’d be hard pressed to find something at that price. A good Dell 2409 in combination with the MXO will work, but getting both will cost you $1600.

Shane

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[Sascha Engel]

Basically I need two computer screens to work with – Dual Screen set up. And one of them should give me a realistic look on colours when I am onlining the project, yes.
I will have a BlackMagic Decklink Extreme Video Card, Mac Pro with Nehalem Processor, and a SD Monitor (a little older, but working well).
Thanx a lot for your help!

Sascha Engel

[Sascha Engel]

Hi Shane,

another question: The Dell 2409 is rather hard to get in Israel. Any other of the Dell Family in the same price class, that is equally good in quality?
Thanx a lot, your help is very appreciated.

Greetz!

Sascha Engel

[Shane Ross]

[Sascha Engel] “And one of them should give me a realistic look on colours when I am onlining the project, yes.”

You want a COMPUTER MONITOR to do this? Well, most don’t. The new HP DREAMCOLOR claims to…they used these for KUNG FU PANDA. But they are more than $1000.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176106&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA

Computer monitors don’t receive a signal appropriate for this. They get an RGB signal and video is YUV. That is why the MXO is a great box, it extracts YUV from the DVI out and throws that up on the monitor. Without the MXO you’ll be hard pressed to use a computer monitor for color accurate monitoring.

And any Dell 24″ monitor should work. 2405, 2407, 2408… Needs to be 24″ for the full pixel to pixel display.

Shane

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[Chris Poisson]

For what it’s worth, if you need to see NTSC or PAL on a decent production monitor (not computer) the Sony 2030 Luma is great for the price. Around 1200 bucks, I have been using one for about 6 months and it’s worked out great. Tough to calibrate, but once you get it it’s just fine.

Have a wonderful day.

[Van Kowalski burdge]

Shane wrote: “Needs to be 24″ for the full pixel to pixel display.” could it be a Dell 27″ like 2709W for @$850. I’m getting a new nehalem with the better ATI470 card. I plan to use this set up for a while but I have a few questions?

can I run a 2nd 2709w off the 470 card? or do I need a 2nd graphics card???

would the 2709 with the Matrox convertor also be a good montitor for color grading with final cut pro/color? HOw about without the Matrox for less critical web delivery stuff?

Bob Zelin also mentioned a Panasonic TH42PH11UK 42″ plasma in another thread…could this actually be the main single computer monitor AND color grading monitor…the screen real estate might be nice???

any suggestions for a single (at first) good mac monitor for fcp???