Tuesday, March 13, 2007
LCDs, Mac monitors better with DV cams than CRTs
I'm not hardware guru, but since I work for a TV station, I've been able to glean a few things off our videographers. One such tidbit is the fact that LCD monitors, and for some reason, Mac OS displays, work better with most video cameras and DV cams than do CRTs on Windows.
After years of messing around with shooting techniques for web pages, applications and such, and battling the irritating nature of CRTs to translate vertically-jumping lines when displayed on TV, we came to the conclusion that it's the Windows refresh rate. Messing with the settings and synching a camera with the refresh rate of the monitor (60 hertz works best, in my experience) for the most part eliminates the lines. But I've never had such problems with our OS X machines, or the 22" LCD Scer display I've got for my XP laptop.
We have yet to test this for Linux yet.
After years of messing around with shooting techniques for web pages, applications and such, and battling the irritating nature of CRTs to translate vertically-jumping lines when displayed on TV, we came to the conclusion that it's the Windows refresh rate. Messing with the settings and synching a camera with the refresh rate of the monitor (60 hertz works best, in my experience) for the most part eliminates the lines. But I've never had such problems with our OS X machines, or the 22" LCD Scer display I've got for my XP laptop.
We have yet to test this for Linux yet.
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