HD displays for final cut set up?

[David Roth weiss]

This question is asked and answered every day, so a simple search will yield all the answers you could possibly require.

And, for the record, a simple DVI adapter is, as your search will further reveal, not what you need to display video to an HD monitor. Video I/O devices such as those by AJA, Blackmagic, and Matrox do that, otherwise your HDTV just functions as a big computer display, which is a whole different animal from a true video monitor or TV.

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[Brent Dunn]

HP has some nice full HD monitors for very little money.

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[Mario Rubertis]

Frank,
If you really want to monitor HD properly as cost effectively as possible you need a device that can turn an HDMI monitor to a broadcast monitor … and there is only one device that can do that the Matrox MXO2 (actually any of the MXO2 boxes https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/)

Check out the video on this page, it shows how you would calibrate your HDMI into a broadcast monitor. https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/monitoring/

I hope this helps.

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[Frank Santos]

Thanks for your help! As I stated Im super new to this. Hard to google something when you dont know what its called. With those products you suggest will I be able to still run my dual displays along with an HD TV? I was looking at this unit

https://www.fullcompass.com/product/387534.html

Once I connect the MXO2 or motu unit will they then be avialable in finalcuts video playback section as video out?

Thanks again in advanced. Also does anyone know of a shatter effect for motion similar to boris cc pixel polly?

[Frank Santos]

Hi Guys,
After looking into it the MX02s dont work with my Power PC G5Quad. I called several companies and none offer it? Any ideas I would really like to make sure Im color correcting correctly and without the proper display its pointless. If I cant find anything I might just bite the bullet but at this point Id hate to waste a perfectly powerful computer.

[Joe Mcsweeney]

according to what I’ve read there is no love for the video from the T2i on the PPC Mac. I have FCP and you have to alter the camera.plist file, but this only works on Intel Macs. What are you using to edit?