Progressive Monitors?

Mandy wrote on 6/9/2003, 5:09 AM

On the computer we see more of the video image and less on ntsc...what about Progressive Monitors? Like plasma and others...will the display the entire image we see on the computer monitor?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/9/2003, 6:23 AM

This is entirely dependent on the monitor and connection. But...In working with the VGA input of largescreen Hitachi monitors, no pixels are cut off, which is a detriment. Remember, approximately 10% of the image seen in DV was never intended to be seen. It's only fringe on the edge of the image, so it's not a good thing to see. If I know an image is going to be predominantly seen on a computer screen, I always crop the edge anyway.

farss wrote on 6/9/2003, 7:29 AM

The progressive part means they can display a non interlaced image.
In general they're going to look the same as a computer monitor, you shouldn't get anything cropped off. As SPOT has said this may not be a good thing.

You should be able to avoid the issues he's raised by keeping everything digital, from what I know its when you go into analogue land that you get the furry edges.

If you've brough video in from an analogue source its a good idea to crop out the furry bits, particularly if going through MPG compression. A lot of bandwidth is wasted encoding those moving furry edges. If you use TMPGEnc it has a tool for doing just that or if you're mixing media in VV I'd cleanup the analogue stuff on the timeline.