Production Monitor – One last question

[Gary Kleiner]

[grasshopper] “f I get a 4:3 production monitor, will it be able to display video formatted in 16:9? I”

Are youworking in SD or HD?

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Janet Turner]

Gary –

Standard Def.

Janet

[Gary Kleiner]

A 4:3 monitor should display widescreen as a letterboxed picture just fine. Unless it’s true anamorphic widescreen, it’s just 4:3 with a mask anyway.

I asked about HD vs SD because a good option for displaying HDV is a secondary, widescreen) computer monitor.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Janet Turner]

Gary –

Thank you for the information. I picked up a nice 22″ Samsung widescreen LCD monitor and am enjoying having the extra real estate for working in Vegas. It is nice to know you like the idea of the widescreen for an HD display as well. I know watching DVD’s on it is pretty awesome.

Again thank you taking the time to answer my question.

Grasshopper

[Russell Robertson]

Can I ask which Samsung LCD monitor you are using? I

[Janet Turner]

Russell –

I picked up the Sansung 226BW monitor. Though I cannot be positive, it looks like it is currently on sale at Circuit City for $320 – a great price. They have the 20″ version for $260 which is the one, I believe, you are asking about. My monitor has a 2ms response time and 1680 x 1050 native resolution. Text is crystal clear, videos look great with no artifacting that I have noticed and Windows XP handles scaling for the widescreen format meaning I have one 4:3 monitor and one 16:9 monitor and both display correctly (you gotta love it). My new computer’s video card came with a program for calibrating the monitor so I can’t answer the question about calibration. I don’t think you will be disappointed if you buy this monitor.

Grasshopper