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HD monitor – too sexy???
Just purchased new 23″ high res LCD monitor for our edit bay (client monitor). I’d like your opinion if we bought a monitor that’s too good (thus too sexy) for our needs…
We’ll be using:
– Avid Adrenaline HD 8-bit
– DVC-Pro HD format (1080i, 8-bit)
—-Camera’s manual says it records 1080i at resolution of 1920×1080.
—-Deck’s manual (AJ-HD150p) says it has a “Sample x Effective Line” of 1280×1080. (Nowhere does it actually say it plays 1920×1080).Now, our new HD 1080i LCD monitor has over 1900 lines of resolution – enough for high-end HD evaluation. Trouble is, when we feed it video from the deck, it seems too critical. Is that possible?
We set up a test where se sent HD video from the deck to two HD monitors: the LCD and a 4-year-old consumer model CRT (with about 1200 scan lines). The shot was a sunrise over a mountain range. Both had really nice pictures, yet the LCD had a 1-pixel “ghosting” on top of the mountain range that resembled the NTSC ghosting you used to see on old tube cameras. This was NOT present on the CRT. We put in other video of interviews, interriors and exterriors and the ghosting is present on all of them. It almost looks like the sharpness is turned up too high – even though we have sharpness on its lowest possible setting.
Is DVC-Pro HD (8-bit 100 Mbps) too low of a resolution for this monitor? Is there such a thing?
Help?!?!?!?!?
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You’ll also get great advice in the Cow video and editing forums. The Cow Final Cut Pro forum has helped me out a lot on technical.
In my field, designers are still using NTSCs (if they’r lucky), at least at the channels and stations I’ve
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[Pixel Monkey] “Trouble is, when we feed it video from the deck, it seems too critical. Is that possible?”
Are you sending the video from the deck in rgb? I’m not familiar with DVC ProHD decks but the problem could be in transcoding to the LCD and not the monitor itself.It is also possible that the LCD monitor has an enhancement feature turned on and it should not be. It creates that “ringing” in transitions from light to dark.
These are two items to consider. HTH
Del
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