Bryan Banks
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Offline editing refers to editing at low resolution during the creative stage of editing. Once the cut is finalized, it is “onlined” and brought to full resolution for color grading and final output. It comes down to cost. If you are editing a show with 100hrs of footage, it’s much easier and cheaper to import it at low-res first (in terms of storage and processing power) and then re-capture at full-res later.
-Bryan
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Plasma is definitely the way to go for client monitors. Gives a nice black level and plenty of “wow”. The 50″ Panasonic is a great option for client monitors.
-Bryan
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I’m on a couple of those boards, so I’d be careful in including some of those in your collection of video pros that monitor properly and experience this issue.
I just find it difficult to believe that I have some magical build of QT that only seemed to manifest itself when I added the broadcast monitor to my setup.
-Bryan
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Every output that I’ve done with h.264 looks exactly like the image on my broadcast monitor. There is no shift in gamma here. If you can explain how my exports come out fine when Apple’s coding is somehow faulty, I’d like to hear it.
-Bryan
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If you’re looking in the $3500 price range, then take a look at the JVC DT-V24L1DU which has HD-SDI added onto it. This the monitor we have on all of our edit bays at the office. There are a few others in this price range, but definitely talk to a dealer and look at the screens in action before making any decisions.
-Bryan
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Who said anything about high-end cards?
The card I use right now is a Blackmagic Intensity Pro. I send component video out to my HD broadcast monitor. Both pieces together were about $1300. If the OP were on a strict budget, you could sacrifice some accuracy and go with a Dell 2408 instead of the broadcast monitor (still send component from the BM Intensity Pro). Or if they are just editing SD material, SD broadcast monitors can be bought from B&H for under $500 (or look for something used).
The whole point is not to know what it will look like on every screen, it’s to put the video on a baseline standard so that it will look consistent with other material (professionally produced video, Hollywood DVDs, etc) on the same screen.
-Bryan
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I’d suggest looking at the Blackmagic Intensity Pro so that you could go component or composite out to your monitor (rather than through your DV camera).
As for a monitor suggestion, I have a JVC HD Broadcast Monitor and love it. You can get the JVC DT-V24L1U and the Intensity Pro card for about the same price as a Matrox MXO+Apple 23″ LCD combo.
-Bryan
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If you get an actual broadcast monitor solution, your final QT exports will look exactly like how it shows up on your broadcast monitor. Have you seen any threads that ask “why do my h.264 exports look washed out?” Well that because they didn’t use a broadcast monitor.
I have my computer screens calibrated with a Spyder2 and my QT exports always looked different than what I wanted… Once I bought my broadcast monitor, BOOM! Everything I looked at/output was consistent and correct. Who would of thought that getting the proper equipment would allow me to do things correctly.
-Bryan
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As far as computer monitors, they are great. But do not expect them to display accurate video signals. For that, you’d need a broadcast monitor.
-Bryan
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Many new TVs still overscan to the action safe (or close to it). My new Panasonic Plasma has the option of showing a signal cropped or not.
-Bryan