Substitute tv for a professional monitor

[Boyd Mccollum]

You can substitute an ordinary TV, but it needs to be calibrated correctly. Do a google search on the web and you’ll find many sites that talk about doing this. Here’s a couple I got from the search “calibrating+ntsc+monitor+TV+blue” (just from the first couple of links, no endorsement intended). You will need a blue filter to place over your TV to do all the calibrating required:

https://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm

https://myweb.accessus.net/~090/how2adj.html

[Tim Kolb]

It should be noted that a precisely calibrated video monitor is necessary to prepare material for broadcast. For your own use or non-broadcast playback, it’s easier to cheat a little…

I would try to find the best quality telkevision you can afford…and it has to have a video input of course, not just an antenna input (which almost all modern sets have…)

I would visit the two links specified above and get some background on calibrating television monitors…but I would also check out some links on reading waveform monitors and vectorscopes.

https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_scopes.html (FCP is featured, but the info is solid.)

There must be more, I’m sure… I can’t find any specifically on scopes in PPro.

If you understand what the scopes are telling you, the absolute accuracy of your monitor will become less of an issue.

TimK,

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