What kind of HD/SDI monitor are you using?

[com-user]

I want to monitor the 2048 x 1280 resolution. Now 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display is on market now is too showy with max 2560 x 1600 pixels. Any suggest? What kind of HD/SDI monitor are you using?

Thanks in advance
com-user

[wwatkins12]

I’m assuming you mean 2048×1080, which is usually used in the context of digital cinema, right? What is your source, DVI or HD-SDI?

If the source is HD-SDI, I don’t know of an HD-SDI to DVI converter which supports the Apple 30″ display, I’d be happy to hear otherwise.

A digital cinema projector which accepts 2048×1080 is probably your best bet to display such a signal, if your suite can be configured for that.

I don’t believe the Sony 24″ and 32″ accept (or at least display) 2048×1080 HD-SDI, although the new models will display dual link 4:4:4 1920×1080.

Or are you just taking about working in Flame and seeing every pixel at 2048×1080? If that’s the case, the answer will depend on which hardware platform you are on.

[zinnia]

BlacKMagic has some good solutions to convert HD-SDI to DVI :

Stand alone hardware converter (seems to be at best 1920*1080 only):
http://www.decklink.com/products/hdlink/

Maybe can work in a stand alone configuration (this time it’s 2k):
http://www.decklink.com/products/multibridge/

They also have various utilities to set LUTs or to read DPX files in QuickTime (even if QT really sucks).
I hope they are going to release drivers for linux.

And now about the display. I’m an old fellow of good old CRT monitors. I’m now using a JVC DTV1910, it’s an excellent HD/SD monitor (but not 2K), it’s cheap, and has all the controls needed to test quickly the image we are looking for : Underscan/overscan, color on/off, Components check, and image control buttons that we can tweek instantly to reveal compositing errors. In terms of colors and image quality, it’s really a great tool. All the usefull things we never get with LCD monitors.
And yes, sony also have some specialized monitors designed for cinema use, but they are extremely expensive.

There is also an alternative solution. Some softwares (like Shake, FCP…) are able to use your second computer display as a video monitor.

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