HD Monitor recomendations

I'm about to purchase a new Mac and I'm hoping to buy an HD monitor as well, but I don't have any knowledge of that market. I would appreciate any recommends people here have for HD monitors under $1500. For office use only.
Thanks in advance.

I'm only spouting, trying to force a discussion perhaps.
HD this and that, that's better than this and that's worse than those and every vendor has their own flavor of the month. I can be a hugely elitist pig when it comes to monitoring issues but which display will work best with how may variants of HDV, XDCam, DV100, HDCam, SR, WhatHaveYouHD?
Will a generic recommendation over the web actually be best for the reader? I recently used the new JVC 24 inch display with DVCPRO HD, 720p60 video and I liked it. I have also used professional Panasonic and Sony displays with 720p and 1080i video and to me, those are some of the worst displays that I can think of, not much better than a Vizio from Costco yet there are folks whose opinion I respect that admire those displays.
I dunno, maybe we need more hd formats.

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Need monitor recomendation.

Hello,
I just have a Mac Book Pro to do my editing on. Is there a set-up where I can push my output to both my 24" Cinema Display and external video monitor. Or do I have to choose one or the other? In any case, can anyone recomend a monitor?
Thanks, Ed

If you are editing DV, you use firewire to drive the external video monitor and DVI to drive the second computer monitor. How to connect things up is covered in the FCP manual.
Since Sony has discontinued the PVM series, about your only reasonably priced choices are the JVC TM-H150CGU 15" or the TM-H1750CGU 17" monitors. I've no experience with them.
If you are editing HDV, the Matrox MXO will let you use a 23" Apple Cinema Display (or the Dell 24" widescreen) as the external HDV monitor. Or, you could purchase a AJA ioHD and use that to drive an external HDTV.
The broadcast versions of HDTVs are hideously expensive.
x

Monitor recomendation for editing/color corection/ grading?

Hello
I am c300 owner, and slowly learning editing and color correction on my CS6 PP, probably later will learn to work as well in Resolve..... anyway, when it comes to pc monitors what would u recommend? and what should i look at when buying monitor? how many monitors do i need?
my pc specs : I7 950 3.07GHz, Win7 64 bit, 24GB ram, GTX 580 3GB
Regards

naumen,
Aug 8, 2013 8:21 PM in reply to Kranex1
so u say if my card is just 8 bit.... curently gtx580 , but planing to get 680 or 780 ...... still 8 bit, its not worth getting 10bit monitor or even higher prduction monitor? right?
Right! Those are gaming cards; very fast, but for pro applications they do not support 10 bit. You need a Quadro for that. And its all or nothing: 10 bit monitor, application, OS, and card to support it.

Monitor recomendations anyone???

Believe it or not, I'm still using my Lacie 20 inch CRT's on my older PowerMac G5. But Adobe and Apples decision not to offer upgrades to non-Intel based Macs are finally forcing me to buy a new computer @%$&#$. So CS5 has essentially started a chain reaction here... new CS5 upgrade means new computer... new computer means new monitors! Can any of you suggest a good monitor to work in Photoshop with? I currently have two monitors and I'm thinking I'd be better off with two new monitors in the 20 inch range instead of buying one large monitor. () I have decided that the Mac monitors are over priced, (as most Apple stuff is) and money IS an issue here. (after all I do live in michigan ') I'm hoping that y'all can give me some opinions on what monitors I can buy without breaking the bank, and that still would be suitable to work for working In photoshop on professional portraits.

For cheaper monitors I swear by Dell. My experience is that they are just as good as the Apple ones, even though I read in a review that the quality is supposedly not as consistent. I've been using one for high-end photoshopping on my second workstation for years and it's been working (and looking) very nicely.
Also, I would highly recommend getting a 30" monitor if you can afford it. It makes working on vertical images a whole different experince, with a lot less panning involved.
Here are the ones I can recommend (Note: make sure you only ge tone of their high-end monitors NOT their cheapest models which are a whole different story):
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs =04&sku=222-7175
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs =04&sku=223-4890
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs =04&sku=320-8277
This is also helpful:
http://macperformanceguide.com/RecommendedDisplays.html

Duel Monitors Recomendation

I have 5 work stations
2x2.26 Quad core Intel Xeon
16 GB DDR3 Ram 1066MHZ
Mac OS 10.9.1
Primary use: iMovie/FCPX for free community workshops
All external HDD workflow
I'm looking to add a second monitor to these rooms and was wondering about recommendations?
The monitors currently in use are Phillips Brilliance 220SW Max res 1680 x 1050 connected via DVI
I have some cash to spend and am slightly deficient in the area of monitors and alternate I/O's.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

FYI: It's, "dual," not, "duel."
A "duel" is something 2 people do with pistols.

Recomendation for dual Apple monitor?

Just swapped over to dual monitors today, but the Samsung syncmaster 22 inch P2250's produce too much heat. they make me sweat and remove O2 from my lungs when closer than an arm length away. Going to donate them today, but I would like to get a good graphics monitor or dual monitor setup.
any recommendations for an older apple monitor combo? have about 27" desk space. need to have the close up viewing mode for photoshop, video editing, graphic work type stuff.
never experienced such a bad problem with heat before from a monitor, is this a recent development in technology to make monitors unbearable to be in front of for any length of time, to maybe encourage more outdoor recreation?

found out that the old apple 20's didn't have as good a resolution as I thought.
can you use a good LED monitor, apples or elsewhere Like
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ACER/B243HLBMDRZ/
and a smaller monitor and just use the smaller monitor for folders, email?
ideally, i'd like something the same height of the large monitor, but tall, not wide. like an ipad stuck to the side.
do dual monitors have to be the same resolution and orientation?

What external monitor would you recomend

I have a 15 inch Mac Book Pro 2011 series and it has a resolution of 1680x1040. I want a moniter over 27 inches. Does anyone have a moniter they recomend.
Thanks

<catching breath!>
So true. Ah! The undeniable impact of excellence.
I was going to mention the lower-cost option of a Dell--they are quite nice--until I relized that I've not heard any reports of their being connected to a Thunderbolt port via whatever adaptor is required.
AJ

Connect two VGA monitors to 13" macbook pro

I have been tasked with pulling out our Director of Finances Lenovo laptop and replacing it with a 13" Macbook Pro with Retina. Currently the Lenovo has a docking station with dual digital monitors and an external keyboard and mouse. The Director will need the two monitors plus a keyboard and mouse. Is there a docking station that is recomended? Or what would be the best way to put this all together? The monitors also have VGA output.

Generally Macs will drive a single monitor with little trouble... after that you may have some work on your hands:
This may work:
http://www.hengedocks.com/order_horizontal_dock.php
you will need to get thunderbolt to VGA adapters:
http://www.amazon.com/EnjoyGadgets-Thunderbolt-video-adapter-cable/dp/B006GG1Q7I /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375733778&sr=8-1&keywords=thunderbolt+to+VGA

About monitors and LCD displays

I want give you some directrices about the display sub system.
Like you all know there are CRT monitors and LCD displays.
CRT
CRT monitors are based upon electron beams hitting Electroluminescent phosphorus. In these monitors the most important parameters are:
1) Dot pitch
2) Refresh rate
Dot pitch is the size of a single phosphorus point, smaller is better. Typical values range between 0.24 and 0.25. Beware with monitors having a not constant dot pitch, there are monitors with dot pitch of 0.24 at center of screen and 0.25 at the borders. I recommend monitors with constant dot pitch size across all screen.
Refresh rate is the number of times a single electron beam travels across the screen drawing a single frame (from left to right and top to bottom) each second. It is measured in Herz (Hz). Bigger is better. Typical values range between 60 Hz and 120 Hz and the value depends upon resolution, more resolution goes to less possible refresh rate. If you are going to play games with shutter glasses, make sure your monitor is capable of 120 Hz minimun at the playing resolution. In 3D Stereo, each full 3D frame must be drawn 60 times/second (60 Hz) but a 3D frame is a single right eye frame and a single left eye frame, 60 Hz for left frame and 60 Hz for right frame are the full 120 Hz. If you CRT is not capable of these 120 Hz your eyes will suffer fatigue / strain and you would have a great headache after prolonged time periods.
LCD
A LCD display do not uses a electron beam to excite phosphorus and generate colored points, instead this it uses a grille and a special lamp. Instead drawing a frame line at line from top to bottom and left to right, it renders the frame in a step only and continuously, these displays are flat for this, there is no necesity for high voltage and magnetic fileds to move the electron beam. In these displays these are the more important parameters:
1) Dot pitch
2) Response time
3) Number of colors (color space)
Dot pitch is the same as with CRTs
Reponse time is the time it gets going from pure white to pure black. Less is better. It is measured in miliseconds. Good typical values range about 16 ms. If you are going to use the LCD to play games, response time is the more important parameter at all.
Number of colors are the simultaneus colors in screen. It have a inverse relationship with response time. It is measured in million of colors or bits. 24 bits of color depth are 16.7 million of colors. Typical values range agout 16 / 16.7 millions. Greater is better. LCDs with 16 ms response time have, usually, 16.5 millions of colors.
Somethimes, the manufacturer will provide you drivers (setup or inf files) for your operating system. I recomend install this drivers. Don't panic if there are no drivers for your display device, Windows, probably, will find the suitable driver for your brand and model.
If you have a CRT and you are stuck at 60~85 Hz you will need the right driver because Windows would not have found a suitable driver from its drivers base and it chose a standard monitor driver.
If you have a LCD and you are stuck at 60 Hz, all is fine, as i have told you yet, LCD displays paint the screen continuously, you will not appreciate any flicker at 60 Hz in these devices. You can check this if you have a digital camera, make a photo of a CRT with a shutter of <monitor refresh rate> * 1.5. You will see a partially drawn picture. If you take a photo of a LCD with the same shutter rules you will get a full picture. With LCD you will get full pictures always, independently of the shutter.
I hope al this info will be helpful to you.

I have found a very interesting link on the Anandtech Web site about LCDs, it is a old one but i think it will be useful.
The link is this

Great CRT Monitor for Mac Mini

Having purchased a Mac Mini a few weeks ago I was horrified to read all the posts on this site reporting problems with monitors. In need of a new CRT monitor I asked the folks at Mac Zone for a recomendation and then placed an order for the 17" Viewsonic Ultra Brite E70F+ ($130 something).
When the monitor arrived a few days later I took it out of the box, plugged it into the Mini using the adaptor supplied by Apple and turned it on.
The rest, as the saying goes, is history! A great monitor and it works with the Mini (or at least My Mini) without a hitch.

Here's one that may be worth a look:
HP Compaq Smartbuy LA2206xc Black 21.5" 5ms Widescreen Webcam LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 1000:1 (static) / 1000000:1 (dynamic) Built-in Speakers - Newegg.com
Whatever you buy under these many criteria, I strongly suggest you try before you buy. If that is not possible, get written commitment that all features you must have are compatible with your Mac.
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Cintiqs, Monitors, and Video card problems.

Hi all,
Alright so first of all. I have a 2008 MacPro 3,1 QuadCore.
I'm an animator so I have a duel monitor setup. They're both pretty crappy but run really nicely with my graphics card. I currently have just one ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB video card. It has three outputs, two mini display ports and one DVI-I port. So I always have an extra output.
Alright now that I've set the scene, one MacPro, two monitors. Enter one Cintiq. I finally pulled the trigger on getting a Cintiq. I know! Its awesome, I love it.
It works great I couldn't ask more from the machine.
Just one problem. Even though I have three video outputs, I'm not able to connect all three (2 monitors 1 cinitq) all at once. Its super annoying to have to swith out the cords everytime I want to do anything with the cintiq. I've had 3 monitors plugged in at the same time so I know its not a faulty card.
I would love to be able to have my cinitq and the other 2 monitors all running at once. From what I've read online it looks like I'll have to get a second graphics card that I can connect the cintiq into.
Any recomendations on a new card? is there any way I can avoid paying the extra $150 for a new one?
Another thought on that. Is it even possible to connect two different types of video cards into the same machine? I'm assuming its just by brand so the drivers don't get mixed up?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Dann

No need for a different video card, just some different plumbing.
In order to get all three ports going, you need active adapters on the mini display ports. The Apple part most of us have is passive.
I was having the same problem you discribe except my "CinTiq" was a HD color grading monitor for my post-production work. I got a pair of these: Accell B087B-006B UltraAV Mini DisplayPort to DVI-D Single-Link Active Adapter ATI Certified (Black) and my problems were over.
Your CinTiq may have additional requirements, so check it all out, but I think this'll get the job done.
good luck

Blackmagic Intensity Pro......Suggest a good HDMI monitor to use..

I am looking to buy the Intensity Pro card to go with my Song HC7 ...to allow me to capture the uncompressed HDV....
I am also looking for a 2nd monitor to use to judge color more accurate...
Could anybody recomend conecting a LCD monitor with HDMI conection .say a
Sony or Lg with HDMI conections to the HDMI on the intensity card....will I get anywhere as close as say a analogue
Sony broadcast monitor.....also will it be able to view HDV and SD via the HDMI port conected via the Intensity pro....
2nd.... Can you convert SDI to HDMI to get it into th intensity pro....are there such beasts or am I barking up the wrong tree...
ROB

Thanks for the quick reply.....
what Im trying to work out is how much better a analogue monitor like
http://www.planetdv.net/Content/ByManufacturer/JVC/Video_Output_Monitors/JVC_TM-H150CG_15inch_ColourMonitor.asp
JVC TM150CG connected via componants out of Intensity card..
would be over a
http://uk.lge.com/prodmodeldetail.do?actType=search&page=1&modelCategoryId=0102& categoryId=0102&parentId=01&modelCodeDisplay=19LS4R&model=3
LG19LSR connected to the Intensity pro via HDMI
Cheers and I hope the links work

How do you monitor audio?

I have a few questions about monitoring audio in my fcp/stp projects.
Currently, I have a g5 quad that has an optical toslink output, that I use to connect to the optical in on a good denon home theater receiver (avr 3801). This is how i output my mac's audio. I have two B&W bookshelf speakers as my monitor speakers.
Is this acceptable to use to monitor my sound for my editing projects? I am not doing much music work, mostly just voice track cleanup on my video projects.
How do you connect audio equipment in your setup to monitor audio?
I am thinking of buying an Alesis 12 track multimix firewire mixer, is this a better interface to use and do I route the signal from the multimix to the receiver to get to the speakers, or should I just get powered monitor speakers and connect them to the mixer?
Also, when editing audio, which is mostly dialogue, is there a volume setting I should keep my receiver at and just work the levels in stp to get the volume right? My receiver has a volume level from -60Db to 0 to 18Db. I am worried about setting my project audio to high or too low.

Giving advice such as saying <Your B & W speakers might be good enough for the job, their lineage is as a studio monitor for the BBC. If you paid over $500/pr, and they sound good, then they're probably good enough. You can use them with a mixer hooked-up to your Mac and outputted to the Denon like in your current set-up> is so cool, if that was the case would,nt you think for a quick minute they would be recomended by pro or advertise as nearfield monitor and not hi-fi.
<conveinient to buy active monitors.> that ain't the case active monitors are made for monitor audio interms of listening to frequency that would be imposible to hear on hi-fi speakers which is the opposite of hi-fi which is more colour-full and does'nt give the true sound, also because its self-power and easy to plug and play.
<The playback volume you use is relative. Most of the engineers I've worked with over the past 30 years prefer to listen back at higher volumes> most pro enginineer listen to mix at very low D.B so as to know exactly what there getting, and after crank them up to hear the over-all levels, any engineer that linsten at loud D.B. does that to show off in seeking attention fr. clients making them feel as if the mix or the song is all that, take it outside the studio and its a different story! <listen back at higher volumes than I'm comfortable with,> thats what i have just explain.
<As far as the levels within the track are concerned, that is all done in the software, again per your preferences, and with an eye on the meters.> it would be nice of you to explain what meter are you talking about, and if it was all so easy with eyes on the meter, dont you think every mixing engineer or anyone attempting to mix would all were glasses, meter in sofware aren't the same as the meters in a pro studio, nor is it the same in hardware, also not all meters are the same where as mixing is concern, they are special meters prefreable know as V.U. meters, check below and you'll all get a better understanding of what i have just out-line, before giving wrong advice of monitor audio.
http://johnvestman.com/meter_madness.htm
Fr.BlayZay.

Need some help with a Business Process monitor PPO Collector

We have one particular monitor that won't return any value, consistently gray.
Monitoring scenario is Shopping Cart/PPO process - we have cases where Shopping carts fail to create purchase orders in our ECC system.
We can see the errors, and have created a monitor with a threshold of '1" just to try to trigger the alert.
Process being monitored is PURORD006, monitor object is boppocol
Configuration is generated and activated, there are no errors in SLG1. Monitor runs every 5 minutes. There are no config errors showing anywhere, and there are no authorization errors for any users.
There are a few red extractors, but they're all workload/e2e related, not BPMON. Agents are green.
Solman is 7.1 Sp12, newly upgraded, all Managed system config/techmon/bpm config clean and green . This also did not work in our previous SP10 incarnation.
Does not matter which ECC system we configure for this, they all act the same way, no metric. Like there's something fundamentally incorrect with our setup or we aren't understanding how this particular monitor works. We have other BPM monitors that work just fine, so it's not a complete config failure, just this one particular one.
ECC system has st-pi 2008-1-700 10
st-a/pi is 01R_700
System is not allowing me to embed screenshots.. grr..... attached screen shots.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Bernie

First of all, if you have IT resources inhouse (or even external) consider asking them.
Also having a backup of the old db would be my recomandation, also check first if there
is data inside which you might want to export as long as the old tms is up and running.
There are a lot of different permissions settings which could grant you access to everything, but
stop you from dropping / deleting the old db.
You can drop a database in different ways, gui, command line,...
This is more a Microsoft SQL than a TMS question.
For more info I would recomend to check the Microsoft sites (and forums) or google.
Like this article here: "Deleting a Database"
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189278(v=sql.105).aspx

Preview monitor playback 'sticks' with certain types of footage.

Hi there, I wonder if anyone could help me with this problem.
I am going through a Apple certified FCP training book with a DVD of footage for video editing. I a have copied the footage onto my hard drive as recomended. However, some clips will not play back with any motion through my preview T.V, it just sticks and parks wherever your playhead was before the footage began or once stopped. You can watch it back fine in the canvas on FCP obviosly, but the preview monitor is sticking and not playing along with it?
The training footage is set correctly because it configures your FCP to match the settings that the author was using.
My settings seem fine for standard DV editing as I loaded up some of my old Mini DV quicktime footage and it runs in FCP and through my T.V monitor in real time with the canvas/timeline. However I have DVCAM video footage to edit soon and when I also try to play it this also sticks on the preview T.V and doesn't follow the canvas until you stop playing and then it lands on the frame that i am parked on.
I imagine its my settings more than anything, I dont see how playing around with standard mini DV footage in the canvas is fine with the preview T.V and and not the DVCAM footage?
I am going out the mac via firewire into a Datavideo AD converter which in turn is going to the preview T.V via S-Video, with the audio phono into an amp. Like I say, works a treat with standard DV footage.
Thanks for your time and hope you can help me!
G5 Quad Powermac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane's Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
Then start up your camera and tv, then open fcp.
Then go View > External video > all frames
Video playback should be Apple firewire NTSC (If you are using an NTSC set)
Audio playback should be Audio follows Video
Techinially, this should send synched video to your TV
If for some reason you can't view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section
Shane

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