Need a CC monitor

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Panamaniac
but I is broke...

then again I never though about the cheaper older ones and I wonder if maybe there is something small... old.. but not too bad. Just need a good color representation from this guy.

So what about something like the Sony PVM-14N6U... or something like it.

Is that a waste of time? Is there a different price point that I should consider? Waht should I look for besides blue bars?

Thanks for the guidance!
 
I was told that the Sony 14" can be cheap if found used. Anyone know these? I'd love a model number as it is a bit tricky to find it on the www.
 
Do a search on used video gear. There are several sites that list used gear for sale. You could always consider rental if it is a one-off job to buy you some time before a purchase. Then there is always e-bay...

Michael
 
I looked at ebay and it doesn't seem likely that I will score there... there are tons of unsuccessful auctions... could you post links to those sites for me please?
 
this has actually been a major topic of discussion at my film school. Sicne the majority of people are not going to be presenting their films on the big screen, the majority of house hold users will either have plasma, LCD or other various types of screens. CRT's are becoming less and less common the in TV area o things, so it makes less and less sense to calibrate your image via what you see on anything other than the means of presentation, which include lcd, plasma, etc...
 
If you're running on a Mac have a look at the Matrox MXO.

It does work on PC yet, I'm looking for something that is similar on PC.

- Derrick
 
I am in the PC world (though I consider from time to time making an Apple install :) )

PaPa I agree, but then you need a pro LCD. Aren't those pricier?
I don't think you meant to say this but if you were to use a consumer plasma or LCD you would be seeing only one of the thousands and since they are consumer products they are going to add their own something to the image and each would be different effectively pushing you in a particular direction opposite of what the set will be doing to the image. Without the proper calibration capabilities to ensure you are viewing the data as unadulterated by the hardware as you can possibly afford you will still be dealing with an influence that you will have to become aware of and adjust for.

I hope my first Production Monitor will change me output cause I am far from happy with what I have done so far. My recent CC in the Gateway is spectacularly better than the crap I did on the 22" Dell, the little 13" consumer CRT has helped a bit... but I want one image that I can trust and to be done with this guess work.
 
Glad to have found this thread, I'm in the same boat right now. I was looking at Sinarch's monitor as a dual purpose solution. On camera monitoring during production, and then hooking it up to my MBP running video out from FCP or Color for CC in post.

The MXO option was looking good until I started poking around in their user forum and realized that it won't work with the new 17" MBPs yet....
 
for_mlove said:
Glad to have found this thread, I'm in the same boat right now. I was looking at Sinarch's monitor as a dual purpose solution. On camera monitoring during production, and then hooking it up to my MBP running video out from FCP or Color for CC in post.

The MXO option was looking good until I started poking around in their user forum and realized that it won't work with the new 17" MBPs yet....
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I am not so sure it would be the right thing to do for post CC... I would love to do the same but I doubt the color would be as accurate as you might need it to be for CC'ing.

MichaelP said:
http://www.provideoequipment.com/video-monitors.php
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Thanks for the link...!!!!!!!

Thank 13 would sure do the trick but I am hoping to find something more in the $500 range... is that possible?
 
check it out!
see now with those part numbers I can make myself useful and find others too:

http://www.broadcaststore.com/store/model_detail.cfm?id=12008
the same PVM 1351Q for $700? bad condition? bad site? is there a catch? I wouldn't know cause I have no idea about these and their prices...



anyway... 450 lines... is that good? shouldn't it be at least 480? or are "TV lines" different in some sort of weird way?
 
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