[MacDV] Re: LCD screens for DV editing ?

[Jim Asherman]

On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 01:52  PM, Granville Kennedy wrote:

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> Okay, then for those of us who have already splurged on the LCD
> displays, I suppose the best course of action would be to get a
> broacast NTSC monitor and connect it to our system somehow.  I have
> seen some local commercials that were obviously shot in DV and the
> color was not corrected and they look horrible.  And I'm guessing that
> using the color correction tools in FCP 3 would require a lot more work
> than just looking in the NTSC monitor to see which colors in which
> shots need to be corrected.  That said, my questions are what NTSC
> monitors would you recommend - ie. minimum useful size, brand and other
> cost/benefit info, and second, what is the best/cheapest way to get
> them connected to your computer.  I currently have the G-Force card,
> but my father is willing to trade me for the Radeon card he hopes will
> come with his new dual-boot PM...
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> Thanks!
> 		Joey Kennedy.
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For what you want to do, I would wager that most of us would say spring 
for some kind of A/d device (ie: Canopus, Formac) or Matrox type unit.
Some feed the monitor through a DV camera.
I use a Sony media converter.
Monitors: I am  too cheap to make appropriate comments on monitors.
Jim