VGA/DVI vs HDMI Best option for FCP X Monitoring?

[Noah Kadner]

Yeah HDMI would be better.

Noah

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[Ewan Lim]

Is monitoring thru hdmi output accurate? Assuming that I am outputting to a LCD or LED computer monitor where the colors has been calibrated.

I realised that when my sequence is interlaced, or rather upper field dominance, my visuals shown on my LCD monitor always has interlace issues. I usually remedy it by just letting it be progressive and let it be none field dominance. So i am not sure myself if any of my footages has any real interlaced issues as i never had this issue running out of a black magic card or a kona card out to a tv logic monitor.

Excuse me for my idiocy. I know that it is always best to monitor on a broadcast monitor but how accurate is it to monitor visuals via hdmi to monitor?

Ewan
Avid, FCS3, Premiere Pro, After Effects

[David Roth weiss]

[Ewan Lim] “Is monitoring thru hdmi output accurate? Assuming that I am outputting to a LCD or LED computer monitor where the colors has been calibrated.”

Depends on what hardware I/O you’re feeding to the monitor. The HDMI output from my Matrox MXO2 is dead on.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Ewan Lim]

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[Ewan Lim]

If you don’t mind entertain another question regarding accuracy of monitoring thru the graphics card. To be specific Amd radeon 5770 for the mac which doesn’t have a true hdmi output but a vga/dvi output.

My current work situation is that we’re kona cardless and my editing station’s monitoring is thru vga/dvi and the image on my samsung led monitor is slowly driving me bonkers. Visually, i have to rely on the scopes but technical wise…

We are doing broadcast as well as web based videos. We are Still on FCS but I am keeping an eye on FCPx but hope they will go back to Avid or switch to Adobe Prod Premium. Personally using FCPx and Ppro.

Ewan
Avid, FCS3, Premiere Pro, After Effects

[Mark Dobson]

Thanks Noah, I’ll give it a go. The 2 adapters I need won’t cost too much.

And David, sure the signal from the MXO2 is good but the fact that at the moment it doesn’t talk to FCP X
makes it a no no.

I’ve kept the monitor and MXO2 mini plugged into my system but it is largely redundant at the moment. Nice blue light though.

I’ve just edited a 12 minute programme and had a dreadful time with the stability of FCP X. Loads of crashes and spinning balls. If the situation doesn’t improve with the additional memory I’ve just installed I will return to FCP7.

And then , hey presto, I’ll have external monitoring again.

[Steve Connor]

Mark, are you running FCPX under Snow Leopard or Lion? I’m finding FCPX to be remarkably stable under SL but very buggy under Lion initially, I needed to do a completely clean install of Lion and FCPX before it had any sort of stability.

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

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[Mark Dobson]

Steve,

No I haven’t installed Lion yet – some essential software has yet to be updated for Lion so I’m going to hang on with 10.6.8

Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
http://www.alembic.tv

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Dobson] “And David, sure the signal from the MXO2 is good but the fact that at the moment it doesn’t talk to FCP X
makes it a no no.”

That’s true. None of the I/O devices enable proper video monitoring at this time with FCP X.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

Don’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
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[Mark Dobson]

Well just to complete this thread.

I’ve now connected my 2 27″ monitors via HDMI and they are a lot better than VGA. They are set at 1080p (PAL for me) and provide a really sharp image quality especially with High Quality monitoring turned on on FCP X preferences.

Certainly a lot better than the VGA connection.