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21.5 in or 27 inch iMac for Video editing and photography
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<blockquote data-quote="FritzDaCat" data-source="post: 1603510" data-attributes="member: 221274"><p>IMHO, for photography work, the 21.5 inch at 1920x1080 is plenty big. You can always work on large images at 100% if you need to do small, fine detailed work.</p><p></p><p>However, for video editing-- in Final Cut Pro X, for example-- a larger monitor is very useful. Especially when color grading where you might have scopes and inspectors open at the same time. However, you say you have a second monitor. You can use that in FCPX to break out the Events and/or Viewer windows to the second monitor-- which makes a huge difference. Having said that, you <em>can</em> edit video just fine on a 21.5" monitor-- I do it all the time.</p><p></p><p>The points raised above about RAM (you should have a minimum of 16GB for video editing) and the graphics card are more legitimate reasons to upgrade, in my view. I would worry about those before I worried about screen size.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FritzDaCat, post: 1603510, member: 221274"] IMHO, for photography work, the 21.5 inch at 1920x1080 is plenty big. You can always work on large images at 100% if you need to do small, fine detailed work. However, for video editing-- in Final Cut Pro X, for example-- a larger monitor is very useful. Especially when color grading where you might have scopes and inspectors open at the same time. However, you say you have a second monitor. You can use that in FCPX to break out the Events and/or Viewer windows to the second monitor-- which makes a huge difference. Having said that, you [I]can[/I] edit video just fine on a 21.5" monitor-- I do it all the time. The points raised above about RAM (you should have a minimum of 16GB for video editing) and the graphics card are more legitimate reasons to upgrade, in my view. I would worry about those before I worried about screen size. [/QUOTE]
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