Calibrating Apple Cinema Display for Video Editing

To calibrate it properly for use as a "external" monitor you really need an MXO which has built in color bars and calibration tools to really set up that computer display to be a video monitor.

Jerry

No. Computer displays and HDTVs use different color spaces. You need something like the MXO to do the matrix math for translation.

x

What he said...I back him up fully.

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/matrox-mxo-broadcast-monitoring-on-a-des ktop-monitor

Shane

The need to "calibrate" a display for video "editing" is a complete fallacy. There is no need to have accurate images when plopping pictures and graphics next to each other to create a story in a linear fashion. For accuracy you need a dedicated input/output device with a display that represents your intended delivery; projection, broadcast, whatever. If your intended delivery is web or phone only, well, it's a total rodeo where the word "consistency" has no meaning at all.

The MXO, it puts a look up table on a computer monitor and then does some other electronic mumbo jumbo to simulate interlacing and other tv junk. I call it lipstick on a pig, others here will give it high marks.

The only real constant is that if you want to play in the world of "hd", the costs are bigger than in "sd" and is the return on investment worth it?

z.

Ignore that grump. For low end work the MXO and ACD are just fine. The "mumbo jumbo" performed is pretty good, and it looked very close compared to my actual broadcast monitor. Will feature film colorists use this? I hope not. But for the regular guy...this is fine.

Shane