Two different specs for “Color”. Which one is minimum?

[Gary Adcock]

[audiovideo] “Yet, for the minimum requirements for the application “Color”, it states” “A display with 1680-by-1050 resolution or higher.” Anyone out there able to use “Color” on the smaller 1024-by-768 resolution broadcast monitor?
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No the smallest computer monitor for color would be the 1440x 900 on a 15in Laptop and that config is less than ideal, with many of the screens and dialogs cut off.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Audiovideo]

Can you also clear up this question as well? In a broadcast monitor, it usually states the “lines” as in 800 lines. But how does that translate into XXXX-by-XXXX display monitor? In other words, I can understand that if you are using, for example, the MAC 23″ display monitor, you’d have enough XXXX-by-XXXX resolution for FCP Studio 2…but if you were also using a RBG/component broadcast monitor at XXX lines of resolution, how do you know if you have enough resolution for, say, “Color”?

[Rafael Amador]

If you mean a CRT monitor, just forget about pixels.
Rafael

[Joseph Owens]

A “line” is a pixel pair… One “on”, one “off”… and its a “horizontal” resolution in its main implementation and meaning. Vertical resolution, at least in TV land, is based on the media format itself… ie 720×480, where you get 480 “rows” of information composed of 720 columns (discounting the pixel aspect ratio, but you get the idea?).

There is a fudge indice — called the “Kell Factor” that is an interesting thing to waste some time with. And if you really want to stir the pot, lets get involved with Nyquist.

And, as far as the “double standard” of hardware platform for Color goes….
There is the low end, which will apparently allow the app to start… and then there’s the high end, where it will actually run, and if you find the magic combination of processors, GPU’s, Bus/Disk speed, and a few other things… the holy grail is “real-time” playback! Quoting the Rutles: “All you need is cash…” A whopping bag of it.

JPO

[Gary Adcock]

[audiovideo] “n a broadcast monitor, it usually states the “lines” as in 800 lines. But how does that translate into XXXX-by-XXXX display monitor? In other words, “

you are comparing apples and oranges.

The settings you refer to are for the Graphic interface ( GUI ) display not the kind of video being handled. Color needs a large amount of screen real estate to handle the windows timeline.

Video Out is handled as video when using a Kona (recommended) or BMD cards, those are SMPTE spec video and not “screen sizes”.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Audiovideo]

Thank you, one and all! You’ve answered my question and cleared up a lot for me. It’s great having you folks here!!!