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Aug 25, 2006, 11:06 AM
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Re: [jamessmurphy623] NTSC COLOR VIDEO MONITOR 4 DVCAM
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What monitor to get depends on your budget.
You can use an ordinary TV set, and pay $100-200 or so. Try to find one with easily adjusted hue and saturation controls, and one that has S-video (or even component video) and audio RCA jacks. Calibrate it using color bars from your NLE and the helpful article in the VU library.
A true production monitor has several advantages over a consumer TV. However, it will also cost you $650 - 1200 or more. Production monitors have more resolution, better color reproduction, and tools such as "blue gun only", "cross pulse", and "underscan" to help you calibrate the monitor and examine certain technical aspects of your video signal. They also have metal cases that help eliminate interference from nearby magnetic and electronic equipment, like your computer monitor. The Sony "PVM" series of monitors is considered by many to be an "industry standard", but production monitors are also made by Panasonic and JVC. Videotek monitors are NOT production quality, but intended more for things like security camera monitors.
You generally can't hook the monitor directly to your computer, unless you have an editing system that supports this, usually with some form of proprietary capture/accelerator card or a breakout box. With Vegas, you simply connect the monitor to your DV camcorder or deck. The signal goes out to the DV device via Firewire, and gets converted to an analog signal and sent to the monitor.
Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions
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