Final Cut X... Need some suggestions for interface on 13" MBP

By biggest gripe about X is the use of screen real-estate. But You really have to come to grips that if you need to do color correction you need to get an external 24' computer monitor, even with that I find everything too small. X has a 2 monitor mode but it even more frustrating screen use wide. IMO. But I believe you can send the event browser over to the 13" and have more round for monitor and scopes on the 2nd display.

Thank you both. In that screen shot, the event browser was adjusted to be as small as possible using the method Bill Davis suggested.

Thanks Jim,

I suppose it's a bit like trying to do brain surgery with a swiss army knife. I think I'm just going to push through the pain until I can convince myself to buy an external monitor, or just start using the 27" iMac's in the media lab at school.

I do feel like this would be a non-issue for me if I could hide the event browser. Shouldawouldacoulda.

Thanks again
Luke

I use a HDMI external monitor hooked up with an adaptor cable, from my MBP or even one of my MP's in the suite, when using FCPX to try grading. The JVC pro SDI monitors also have HDMI input. This is not the same as using an AJA, Matrox or BM solution, but it is better than nothing.

You can even do this in many hotel room TV's when on the road. It is not as good as when the External monitoring will work with my MX02, but it works quite well. I often do this on the road to review footage.

I put the viewer on the second display (the HDMI one) this makes for pretty good real estate.

If you send bars to the monitor and have a blue gel you can even calibrate the HDMI monitor, not as well as a real pro monitor. But you can get pretty close. I do this in my suite comparing it to bars on a calibrated real pro SDI monitor.

Soon we don't have to worry about this as there will be many compact external pro monitoring solutions. And this is really the only way to accurately grade.

Olof Ekbergh

Luke, the quickest but maybe not the best is the match color adjustment in FCPX.

Other than that use your scopes and eye on the best monitoring setup you have.

First, adjust the contrast so the scopes match. Color casts tend to be in the highlights, so a slight adjustment there is a good start, then possible a little in the mids. This is a very crude description of cc. There are many excellent tutorials on the web.

Olof Ekbergh