How to desktop preview

[Jerry Alto]

jacalo- It reads like you already have a dual monitor set-up. The cheap way is to go FCP ‘View>video playback>Digital Cinema Desktop Preview’. Just try it. It might be what your looking for.
jerry

[Ben Holmes]

Jerry is right – if I get your system right.

BUT – you would be better having one computer screen and one SDI monitor (for a vaguely equivalent cost) as you will never be able to see how your project will look to the viewers on a TV at home – for a start computer monitors are progressive scanning, and you cannot see the real interlaced look of your original video.

If you have just bought 2 new 20-23-inch monitors: Send one back and get a Sony monitor with an SDI input – they are not as expensive as you think…

Hope this is taken as constructively as it is meant.

Ben

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[Juan Carlos aguirre]

Thanks Jerry.

—The cheap way is to go FCP ‘View>video playback>Digital Cinema Desktop Preview’.

I dont see this option, the only ones that I see is for the ProIO. Do I need any plugin or upgrade, Im running FCP 5.0.3

[Juan Carlos aguirre]

Thanks Ben.. but as I see, any SDI monitor is arround 2,000 + the SDI card another 1,500. What I’m also thinking is a SDI to DVI converter hooked to a Plasma monitor?