jackal2513
Active member
ok, first of all Id like to start out by saying that I find it qute ironic yet almost unbelieveable that so many people on the "HVX200 noise" threads are using and or evaluating footage on a Dell 24". FWIW, even scope frames scanned in with a northlight & shot on a panavision look rubbish on the dell.
anyway, I have been researching a proper LCD to use for video editing and for grading black and white points and colour and thought I'd share my findings after I recieved a number of PM's asking me the same question. Information is very hard to come by but I have dug up a couple of pointers. First of all, if you want the best LCD's for grading and colour calibration with stills then the market leaders are the very expensive LaCie range (321, 319) and the Eizo Colorgraphic range but these are strictly for still use only and designed mainly for photographic and repro professionals. They work very poor with moving images (although you could always grade to a still and play your actual video on a 2nd monitor).
What you really need is a halfway house, something that is good for video as well but has reasonable colour calibration. The 2 lcd's that seem to be favoured the most are the NEC 1980fxi and the Eizo L778. They both have very good black levels (the eizo uses their C-Boost system to produce unprecedented black leves for an LCD) and both very good with video noise. They are both 19" so would partner a big Dell very well. I will be buying the Eizo when I can source one.
anyway, I have been researching a proper LCD to use for video editing and for grading black and white points and colour and thought I'd share my findings after I recieved a number of PM's asking me the same question. Information is very hard to come by but I have dug up a couple of pointers. First of all, if you want the best LCD's for grading and colour calibration with stills then the market leaders are the very expensive LaCie range (321, 319) and the Eizo Colorgraphic range but these are strictly for still use only and designed mainly for photographic and repro professionals. They work very poor with moving images (although you could always grade to a still and play your actual video on a 2nd monitor).
What you really need is a halfway house, something that is good for video as well but has reasonable colour calibration. The 2 lcd's that seem to be favoured the most are the NEC 1980fxi and the Eizo L778. They both have very good black levels (the eizo uses their C-Boost system to produce unprecedented black leves for an LCD) and both very good with video noise. They are both 19" so would partner a big Dell very well. I will be buying the Eizo when I can source one.
