Question on flat screen TVs

I am thinking of replacing my NTSC monitor with a flat screen TV, but I have a question. Often I see video tape hits on my NTSC monitor that I do not see is the FCP viewer, and I correct the clip. Would I see these hits on a flat screen TV monitor?

If you mean the horizontal lines sometimes visible in playback in the FCP viewer/canvas - no - in my experience they won't show up on the flat-screen, and even if they were to such artifacts would not be present in the actual quicktime file anyway, it's just a play-back issue in FCP

Bluey,

FCP's Canvas will mask issues with footage that you will not see unless you're connected to a high quality reference monitor. A consumer TV is set to mask noise and can also mask out issues with original footage from time to time.

We replaced all of our old CRT reference monitors with Flanders Scientific for this very reason. They do not mask noise, they show all interlacing correctly (which is important for reverse interlace issues) and they show all hits, nicks and errors with footage.

We run the 17", 23" and 24" monitors in our shop, in every suite.

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Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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