Preview monitor for FCP

I have two 20" cinema displays powered by an ATI 1900 display card and would like to have a third monitor for preview. Can I put in another display card and route the realtime display to this card and monitor?
If this is possible what recommendation would you suggest
for a good single panel display card?
Mac Pro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You can add an ATI Radeon X1900 XT
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or NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
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ATI Radeon X1900 XTs have to go in slot one or two (covering slot three as well).
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GTs can go in any slot.
If you are going to use one 1900 and one 7300, put the 1900 in slot one, and the 7300 in slot four. Set the PCI-Express bus to x16 x1 x1 x8.
If you use two 1900s, set the PCI-Express to x8 x8 x1 x8.

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External Monitor as Preview Monitor for FCP 7

Hey guys,
I recently purchased a ViewSonic monitor for use with monitoring my output from FCP. I've hooked it up but it doesn't seem to be working.
The ViewSonic has DVI and VGA outputs. I can go straight to the Mac no problem through DVI, but that just gives me an extended desktop.
I have a Scan Converter that is plugged into firewire to the Mac, and then VGA to the Monitor. I thought it would be that simple, but I guess not???
If anyone has any insight it would be really appreciated! Thanks!

to preview from FCP you need an NTSC or PAL LCD or CRT colour monitor, not a computer monitor. You will need a digitising card for SDI or analogue output from the Mac: http://blackmagic-design.com/products/decklink/
or a camera or deck with Firewire if you need to use a Firewire connection.
The manual explains in detail how to set this up.

Dual Displays Plus a Preview Monitor for FCP Supported?

Hello! I have the iMac 20" and do video editing. Beyond using a second display for an extended desktop, is it possible to have an additional monitor/TV for the preview while editing or for playback?
Thanks!
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Here is my own answer, check out the Matrox MXO, it is a great add-on for the iMacs.

External monitor for FCP

I am looking into purchasing an external monitor for my iMac. The primary use would be to monitor the output of what I am editing in FCP, rather than have it be a secondary monitor (for dual screen editing). Currently my setup is an old 13" tv connected through a canopus converter, but I would like to purchase a flat screen and I am trying to figure out if I need to buy a flatscreen TV or just a flatscreen computer monitor. Hopefully this makes some sense--let me know if I can get away with the monitor instead of a tv!!

Kim -
What does the canopus converter offer for outs? Composite? Component? HDMI?
You are on the right track. How important is it for you to have the BEST, most 'true' picture to view?
I'm gonna hang out a few people here...
Some folks insist on running their audio thru crappy speakers just so they can make sure the audio sounds good on run of the mill TVs -- YET insist on having only the finest high quality broadcast adjustable with isolatable blue gun fancy production monitor to CC their media.
I say hogwash! (kinda)
Yes, you want a production monitor (for a number of reasons) to best set your broadcast luma/chroma. But are you broadcasting? Don't get something fancy if all you have coming out of the canopus is composite... I'd worry about getting the finest product with what you have first. Then worry about a new mac with a professional video card with a professional product with a professional monitor (audio AND video) setup.
Help?
CaptM

Suggestion for a Video Monitor For FCP

I am looking for a video monitor to use with FCP. The Sony PVM-14L2 13" has been recommended. Is anyone familiar with this monitor or do you have a monitor which is working well for you that you would recommend.
1) Should I be looking for anything key features not listed below?
2) Will I need any other hook ups to make this work with my system?
(Right now I am using a JVC SR-VS30U Dual Deck. A firewire from the computer to the deck and component from the deck to to t.v. the deck also has s-video)
3) When I move into High Definition will this monitor work?
Key Features of the Sony PVM-14L2 13"
Variety of Input Options
The monitor accepts composite, S-video, component and RGB signals standard without options. Serial Digital signals can be viewed with the optional
(with audio) or BKM-120D (without embedded audio). Even
, Sony's version of Fire Wire can be displayed with the optional BKM-155DV board.
Beam Current Feedback Feature
In studio environments, monitors tend to be left on for long periods. This practice leads to white-balance drift and unstable color reproduction. The Beam-Current Feedback circuit corrects for drift over long-term usage of the monitor.
Professional Set-up Features
Calibrating monitors assures that each display is showing correct colors which will match any other correctly calibrated display. The PVM-14L2 has set-up functions like Blue-Gun, H/V Delay, and selectable color temperature for these critical calibrations.

Sounds like a great choice as long as the size works for you. A small truly high-res monitor is much more useful than a big impressive soft one for analysis monitoring.
1) I don't think you need anything else unless the JVC thing doesn't work out. In that case you can try your camcorder, or a capture device such as ADS Pyro, Matrox MXO, or one of the Aja or Decklink cards. Depends...
2) JVC SR-VS30U - I don't know, there are a lot of devices that won't simply pass FireWire through, including many or most DVD recorders. Your best bet is to try it and monitor it on whatever you have.
If you're on NTSC you'll have to pay attention to the black setup. Many consumer digital devices these days won't put in the 7.5IRE setup for North America.
That's OK as long as you aren't using it to do analog conversions. If you can get FCP bars through the thing and set the monitor up properly to them, you should be OK. I'm sure the monitor can be set to 0IRE in menus if need be.
3) It won't show you an HD signal. If you're using the MXO it will give you a realtime SD downconvert to monitor. But that monitor won't display anything but NTSC and PAL. If it did I would probably say that 13" is too small.

HP DreamColor Monitor for FCP Color grading

Hello, apologies that I posted this question also on the beginners video forum.
I am about to get a new Mac Pro set up specifically for color grading as I am a cinematographer and need more control over small projects where there is no budget for color grading of images at professional post houses. My vendor suggests using the 24" HP DreamColor LP 2480zx monitor driven from a Black Magic Intensity Pro card using the HDMI output. I have read conflicting reports and read a huge amount on forums such as Creative Cow about this but still not convinced I can get full 30bit grading from a Mac OS X using this monitor. I am in Australia and most projects here are in PAL format in HD at 1080p25 or 50i. I use FCP 7.
Any advice please?

are you saying I should look at Da Vinci Resolve to grade? Why?
It depends on whether you're a day-in and day-out business, and your preferred workflow. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. The Balckmagic-branded daVinci has a number of internal core processing advantages, a tracker that works, far superior color science, especially in secondary processing, but suffers from an old, "tape-to-tape" single-layer capability. However, it is truly "real-time", but that isn't as important to some.
The latest version of Resolve supports multiple-GPU processing on Mac, so the difference between the OSX offering and the much more expensive LInux may not be that great in actual performance. You can build a faster machine with more hardware.
The question... is it the software or controller that makes is (sic) so good? misses the point. Its a synergy of elements, just like good grading itself.
jPo

3 Monitors for FCP

I have ben searching for this answer and cannot find it so I will post here.
In my editing suite I have two side by side monitors but I want to ad a third just for the canvas playback. I used to work at a studio and we had the same set up but I don't know how it was done. We had the side by side monitors but we also had a widescreen tv monitor hooked up that payed whatever was in the canvas.
Anyone know how I would do that?
Thanks!

I don't want to loose the canvas off my main editing monitor. The studio I worked in just had it set up so the monitor played the whatever was in the canvas on that monitor. It was nice to have the full size version there and it also was a nice preview to see what it would look like on a TV.

Second preview monitor for presentation

I'll try to explain. Can I mirror the desktop of my Macbook Pro to a monitor on stage to show me the presenter notes, while projecting the presentation onto a screen for the audience.

Try going to System Preferences…Displays, then click the arrangement tab. You should see three screens displayed there (PB, Presenter display and projector). Option-Drag the PB display over the on stage presenter display. That should mirror just those two displays.

Setting up a second monitor for FCP

Hi,
I'm editing on FCP 4 HD on an iMac G4. I'm about to start a new project which will have hours and hours of footage, so I'm going to need another monitor so I can have the Bins on one screen, so that I can see as much of the footage clips as possible.
I have a VGA cable and I just want to check that if I have another display, I'll be able to use it as a dual screen computer (ie like a pro editing setup) or will the new display just mirror what I have on my iMac. I really don't know how this works, so sorry if I sound naive!
Thanks

well if the imac does have a place to plug a second monitor into. then yes you will be able to use it like you want. if it does mirror then just go into the display prefs and turn off mirroring. i didn't think those imacs had a VGA plug, but then i again i am not sure. so check that first.

3rd & 4th monitors for fcp setup using an Imac?

I'd be quite interested to hear about other users who have managed to configure their workstation with 3 or 4 monitors using an Imac (or any mac that doesn't have expansion slots)
What additional hardware you have considered and/or purchased. What sort of additional demands on your system as a result of the expanded desktop?etc

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Use iPad as Preview Monitor with DSLR (nikon)...possible?

Hi all
I have the idea to purchase the iPad but a still have a question...is it possible to us it as preview monitor for my dslr (nikon d300) using a cable input?
thx a lot
cheers

The closest thing I've seen to this is this app:
http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/dslr-camera-remote/
It supports only some models of camera, and requires the the camera be tethered to a laptop, to which you then connect wirelessly from the iPad. I don't know if that would be useful to you, but it might be worth a look.
And while not a preview app, ShutterSnitch might be useful in your workflow.
As wireless camera systems become more common and functional, we may eventually see remote-control apps that can connect directly to the camera, not requiring an intervening laptop. This is already partially possible for photographers with a Leaf or a Mamiya digital back.
Regards.

Preview Monitor and Exporting Quality Issues

Hello, in a previous life I was a video editor from the world of Avid and I just picked up Premiere for an emergency side mission at my current place of employment and I have run into a couple issues with CS4.
1. The preview monitor for the Sequence displays a lower quality of the video that comes from the uploaded Clip and it also does not play back at a steady frame rate. However, when I look at the Clip in the secondary preview monitor that is reserved for clips, titles, etc, the video quality is as high as what is expected. How do get the sequence monitor to playback at the quality the clips are uploaded as and how do I get the playback to do so at a steady 30fps?
2. My exporting experience was based around dubbing directly to Beta tapes and I never really had to do any digital file exporting. I need some tips on what to export a Sequence as that will retain a high amount of the quality while also keeping the file size to what will fit on a disk. The video length in this case would never be more than 5 minutes as I am only working on sales videos. Also, the file needs to be playable in Windows Media Player.
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Which monitor for mac pro and FCP

Hi,
I'm using a quad core mac pro with a Dell 2407wfp. In this setup I mainly do FCP editing. The monitor is 4 years old and I like to replace it for a larger one. I recently saw a setup with a Samsung P2770HD full hd and a tv tuner on board. Will this be good enough for FCP editing and reviewing HD content?
TIA

Will this be good enough for FCP editing and reviewing HD content?
Probably not - but I have no experience with that monitor.
Not what you asked but why not keep the Dell for displaying FCP timeline, bins, etc and purchase a quality HDTV and the means to feed it a hd signal (eg AJA Kona series, various Blackmagic cards, Matrox MXO series, etc) for viewing output?
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HD ready LCD for FCP monitoring (PAL)?

Hi from the UK (PAL land)
Im looking for the best value LCD HD ready screen to buy for monitoring my FCP stuff!
I have a G5 Dual G5 2.5GHz with 23" cinema and 20" displays. Im not producing broadcast material - just corporate and wedding DVD's, and up till now I have been using a standard CRT sony portable for an external monitor which has done me fine for the kind of work we produce.
I would like something like 26" - 30" inch LCD to put up on the wall, but I also want to monitor it for my SD and HD projects (for the future). We have been shotting in HD for own own personal projects keeping them until a burner and HD-DVD player becomes available her in the UK (god knows when!)
Anyone out there got any suggestions, and what will I need to hook up my mac to such a monitor? my buget is maximum £700.00-ish!
I was looking at the Philips 23PF4310 23" - HD ready at £499.00

In my opinion, 99.9% of TV monitors make lousy computer monitors due to their relatively low resolution. If you'll look a the specs for the Soyo model you linked to, you'll see the ONLY resolution setting is 1366 x 768 ... pretty low for critical computer work.
In comparison, Apple's 23" Cinema Display and Dell's 24" has up to 1920 x 1200 and Apple's 30" is up to 2560 x 1600.
-DH

Using and LCD TV as a monitor for HDV editing

I'm editing in FCP studio 2 and shooting with the new Sony HVR-S270u cameras. I'm trying to figure out the best way to use my LCD TV as a monitor for HD. I know FCP will not playback through my camera in HDV but print to tape with it. I looked into the Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro with HDMI. The problem is the camera doesn't have HDMI it SDI outputs so I'm capturing through firewire. I've been told that the Blackmagic card requires you to capture with it in order to playback with it. I know there is Matrox MXO but are there other options out there.
Can I use the LCD TV as a second monitor and do playback as Cinema Desktop Preview to second monitor? I've also seen a DVI - HDMI cable. Will that work? Any help would be great!
Thanks,
Mike

What format is the media in when you capture it?
Whatever you choose to capture it. You can capture it as HDV via firewire, or ProRes via firewire. Or you can use this card and choose one of the options it gives you...such as ProRes, DVCPRO HD, uncompressed HD...whatever you want, and your hardware can support.
I'm assuming it's no longer HDV.
Only if you don't capture it as HDV. You can still do that and then output via this card to some other format. Or you can capture as HDV, render to ProRes (in the sequence settings under RENDER CONTROL).
Is it uncompressed HD?
If you choose that.
Is there an Easy Setup for this?
Yup.
What codec does it use?
Whatever it lists in the Easy Setups...the ones I listed above.
They also state that you can use it for DV. I'm guessing that means if you have DV material and a device that outputs HDMI you have uncompressed SD?
First off, HDMI is an HD signal, not SD. BUT, you can use the card to output your DV timeline to your HDTV. You cannot output to an SD deck, as no SD decks have HDMI.
If you can import HDV via HDMI and you bypass the HDV codec and get full 1920 (as they say on their website)
Yup..you can capture as ProRes or Uncompressed, and get full 1080. BUT, this doesn't increase the resolution of your footage. It just means that it will render to a better codec with more color space...better manipulation of the image that HDV.
then I'm also guessing that you cannot go back to HDV.
Not via firewire. But if the deck had Component inputs, or HDMI...maybe.
Shane

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