Which Apple Cineams display best for FCP, 1080, 720

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Which Apple Cinema Display would work best with FCP to view 1080? Which for 720?

The Apple cinemas displays each have different optimum resolutions. What does this mean? How does this effect monitoring 1080 and 720 footage?

Thanks.
 
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Resolutions:

20"
1680 x 1050 pixels (optimum resolution)
1280 x 800 pixels
1024 x 640 pixels


23"
1920 x 1200 pixels (optimum resolution)
1280 x 800 pixels
1024 x 640 pixels


30"
2560 x 1600 pixels (optimum resolution)
2048 x 1280
1920 x 1200
1280 x 800
1024 x 640


Would it be the 23" for 1080?
 
Are you suggesting, or asking, if the 1080 pixels would fit just inside the 1200 pixels of the 23"? Whereas the 30" would either resample to get a larger display--and resampling is not something we like, pixel for pixel is better--or simply have "wasted" pixels? Is this the way to look at it?

Would the 23" nearly give pixel for pixel for 1080?
 
It doesn't matter, all three will do the same great job. A pixel is a pixel. All three will look the same. I use a 30" and a 23", both do great jobs. As for how big the window playing your footage, depends on what resolution you have the monitor set for. Higher resolutions will give you smaller windows, but it's still a pixel for a pixel. All three will do the same job just as well.
 
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