monitor to use with xl2

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[Craig Moss] “is it possible to split the signal and use a small monitor that is color accurate and a larger cheap but decent one for the group?”

Yes, if you’d like.

Send the composite (RCA) output to one monitor and the S-Video Output to the other.

And/or, truly professional monitors have a “Bridging” input so that you can loop a second monitor “through” the first one.

[Craig Alan]

So what monitor would you recommend given the camera’s ability to shoot in 4:3 and 16:9? I’d like to use it for color correction/FCP as well.

OSX 10.3.8; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media

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For judging iris levels and color accuracy you still want a CRT (“picture tube”) monitor (while you can still get them) and not an LCD or Plasma.

Any Sony, Panasonic or JVC professional 4×3 monitor that has a 16×9 “button” will work for you.

There are several 9″ portables that can also run on 12v batteries if needed for location use.

If you want a larger color-correction monitor, there are many pro monitors in the 14″-19″ size.
You want to choose a monitor with a “Blue-Only” setting so you can quickly “neutral-balance” the screen image using SMPTE color bars before assessing other input sources.

If you just want a bigger screen for clients to watch (not for “accuracy”) you can buy any 17″ to 20″ LCD low-ender to loop from your “good” monitor.

[Donald Berube]

In the field I use a Sony PVM-9L3 9″ High Resolution monitor, 4:3/16:9 switchable, powered by IDX V-mount batts. In the editing room, we have a JVC DT-V1910CGU 19″ DTV monitor with which we have installed the composite/ S-video, component and both SD and HD-SDI cards. If it’s a basic FireWire edit we monitor via S-video. If we are editing with our Kona 2 card, then we typically monitor via SD-SDI through the Kona 2 card. If there is a lot of titles and graphics, we’ll recompress the clips in the timeline to 8-bit uncompressed and monitor through the Kona 2 card.

Best regards,

– don