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Upgrading from analog to digital monitors
I’m now trying to create web videos and I believe the interlaced nature of my CRT’s is not good for my workflow. They worked OK when I created DVD based videos.
Video card is Asus EAX1950Pro w/ 2x DVI-I outputs.
Monitors are 2x Viewsonic 21″ G810 (keep laughter to a minimum please)What are the biggest pros and cons upgrading from CRT to a newer LCD (hopefully IPS)?
Thanks in advance for all your help!
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The biggest con I had was that I was able to achieve a near perfect color calibration with an analog monitor. What I saw on the screen (photographs) was virtually identical to what was produced by a photo printer. I also had good confidence within my video editing activities. Not so with a digital monitor. Even with a Spyder 4, I cannot achieve the same level of accuracy for either photos or video. It is always a series of guesses where the image is viewed on the target device, and guesstimated adjustments are necessary to get the image looking good. Not too hard, but a real PITA.
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You don’t say which CRT monitor you have, but generally, unless you spend a lot of money (like north of $5,000), you won’t be able to accurately calibrate your LCD monitor. You will get close, but not as accurate as you can with an analog CRT. LCD’s can’t make black because some light leaks through when the LCD cells do dark. White is an illusion because it depends on the color of the backlight.
That said, I do 99% of my work with my Dell consumer LCD’s. Sometimes if color accuracy critical of something just doesn’t look right, I pull out an old Sony PVR CRT monitor to check.
Mmany claim that you can calibrate an LCD monitor. I use a ColorMunki calorimeter on my LCD’s, and even after a fresh calibrate, no two of my six LCD monitors are alike.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Thanks for the replies!
I’m currently running 2 Viewsonic model G810.
They have served me well for years and still look great to me.
I use them for everything…internet, office, photoshop, vegas editing, and watching a ton of web videos on youtube, hulu, netfix, etc.I was just thinking it might be beneficial to edit on the same kind on monitor my audience would watch my videos on…
Thanks!
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“I was just thinking it might be beneficial to edit on the same kind on monitor my audience would watch my videos on…”
No. No two of your audiences’ TV sets will be calibrated alike – if they are calibrated at all. So if you make your video look good on the typical consumer wide-screen TV, it will look like crap on a properly calibrated monitor.
In other words, it’s their problem. You produce the best product to technical standards using the scopes and a properly calibrated pro monitor, then let the consumer properly adjust their TV sets.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
If you are happy with them, I would not give them up. The ONLY reason I gave up my CRT was that it died.
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