best monitor to edit with: LCD / CRT / or projector???

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Nicholas Natteau

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I'm about to edit a documentary I shot with the HVX200 and not sure which type of monitor to go with for editing: LCD or CRT?

I was thinking of the Panasonic BTLH-1700W 17" LCD screen because I've heard a lot of good things about it.

Or should I go with the Sony PVM14L5 multiformat CRT monitor (14").

Just not sure. Is LCD good enough these days, as good (accurate) as a CRT monitor.

What about using a high end home theater projector like the Panasonic AE1000U?

Have no idea which would be best.

Many thanks for any feedback.

- Nicholas
 
This is always the question that we have to ask our selves, what reference do we master to?

Most professionals in a field (audio, and video) would agree on one standard to master to, so that we would have a reference as to what it should look/sound like.

Back in the 90s, we had mostly one type of display device, and it made sense to master on CRTs because that's what everybody had.

Today there are so many different devices that we watch television on. LCD, CRT, DLP, ILA, the list of acronyms go on, and on.

You have to think about your audience, and then think about your budget. Ideally you would want to master your film, on a 4k projector, with the highest end sound system setup, so that when your viewer experiences your cut in a theater it sounds and looks the best.

But that always isn't always the case. Getting a system properly set up like that is very costly.

After saying all of this: you really need to master the way that most professionals are doing it now, by using a color profile and applying it to your footage as you color grade on a properly adjusted monitor. When you pass around your footage, those engineers will like you better since they will see the same thing you did when it gets passed to them.

As for your consumer, well lets just hope that they don't have the brightness set too high, or the color set too vivid, or the signal processor in their TV doesn't make your video look too dark, or too contrasty. A good mix/master will always look and sound good on a variety of displays and devices. Just keep in mind not all consumer devices are created equally.

Mastering is always a fine balance between having good reference signals on your monitoring equipment, and ones that will translate well onto consumer equipment where your mix/cut ultimately gets viewed.
 
I don't know bout you all but I just learned some important stuff here

Thank you so much for the break down A.Mejia

JOE
 
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