Fun with Big Monitors
Dan on our testing team was telling me how he was putting his new monitor in portrait mode to great use for editing in the Spectral Frequency Display, so I decided to try it with one of the 24-inch monitors that we have in the office. Wow! I wish I had one of these at home!
Using the full length of the screen to display the frequencies and setting the spectral controls to 16384 reveals amazing detail, and almost makes the song look like a piano roll.
Comments
24" is pretty insane. I like the combo setups at CineMassive Displays where you get an array with a center display in landscape and portrait wings on the sides. Seems the best of both worlds. Its the one on top when you first get to the homepage: CineMassive Displays.
I'd think that setup would be pretty good at just about everything you could throw at it. Better than my 17" CRT anyway.
Posted by: DouglasCritz | February 27, 2007 2:21 PM
Ron, we actually added a logarithmic display in the latest version!
Posted by: Hart Shafer | January 31, 2006 9:11 AM
Cool! You might get a better piano style look if the spectral image had a logarithmic frequency display.
Posted by: Ron | January 31, 2006 2:50 AM
WOW! I don't know how much I'd like all the clients peering over my shoulder to watch every move I was making with a 42" wide plasma display.
Posted by: Craig Jackman | January 26, 2006 1:05 PM
You don't get more pixels, you only get bigger pixels on a plasma screen. That one has exactly 1360x768. It's installed in an exhibition, displaying information on bird migration. We needed it in portrait mode to display a map of Europe and Africa.
Posted by: Monika Gause | January 25, 2006 3:19 PM
I sit just a few inches further away from the big screen as I do from my regular 19" monitor. The biggest thing is that I have to get used to running more applications NOT maximized so I can move the windows around like I do between multiple monitors at home. And yes, I've always kept it horizontal until now because I always preferred the real estate for the timeline (and the mixer--16 channels plus the master on that guy!) so that's why it was so surprising to see how useful the portrait orientation could be for Spectral Display.
Monika--wow, what's the resolution on that? I could definitely see getting a headache from most plasmas that don't have a huge pixel count for their size, especially sitting that close!
Posted by: Hart Shafer | January 25, 2006 1:40 PM
I know what you're talking about - see also big screen installation
(this is a 42" plasma screen we used for the development of a POI application)
My collegue had some permanent headache working in front of this monster.
Posted by: Monika Gause | January 25, 2006 9:33 AM
Just how far away from a 24" monitor do you have to be to view it comfortably? I quite like the idea of a widescreen second monitor - I'd rather have the horizontal real-estate, personally.
Posted by: Steve Garnett | January 25, 2006 5:51 AM
Wow! No kidding, that's serious business!
Posted by: Despised7 | January 24, 2006 9:45 PM