Edit Displays

[DarrelCharest]

For the past several years I've been using the Renommee Plus with a two screen display. One screen is an NEC 1720M while the VGA display is an Akai 20" LCD 4:3 TV.

I'm thinking of buyting a Samsung 26" LN 26 A450 HDTV to replace the monitor and/or the VGA display.

But before committing to the HDTV, I would appreciate some advice as to whether or not the change would make a significant difference in the in SD and HDV editing as well as the use of Quadcam. While the Quadcam software has been a great help in editing dance recitals, the image size can be difficult to work with.

Currently my editing is limited to the SD format. However my Sony FX-1 and newly acquired FX-1000 are tempting me to take the HDV plunge.

Your thoughts, ideas, experiences and opinions are appreciated.

Darrel Charest

[erictom]

It's all dependent upon whether you have the OS to edit HD. Otherwise, stay 4:3. But, you have the resources to acquire HD, so why not! .....and even if you just render to 16x9 SD, it certainly will look better on widescreen than cropped images on a 4x3 monitor.

[Jeanton]

Hi Darrel

Going to DVI/ Hdmi display you have two setting 750i and 1080i display when you use the Quadcam in the highest resolution the prieview screens are very small. What I do is switch to 750 display when I use the Quadcam as the screens are bigger and more visable. After I competed the cuts I wanted to do I go back to the higher resolution and work on some fine tuning. I posted a Question about that on this forum a while ago and I think you should that. Don't know how Quadcam works in HDV I haven't tried it. Here is the link to it

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=774&hilit=quadcam