Picking Monitors for a Post-Production Home Studio

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi, I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village and I'm here to talk to you about monitors that you'll need for your home studio office. As you can see, I have two separate monitors which gives me a larger amount of desktop space when I'm switching between applications especially when it comes to editing applications, you want to make sure that you have as much visual real estate as possible. Things can get very complicated very quickly and you want to make sure that you can have an eye on everything that's going on. Another thing that you should consider is the graphics card you'll be buying for the monitors because that's gonna--that will dictate which monitors you will be purchasing, which monitors you can't and you want to make sure that your specifications add up for both. When it comes to external monitors, you want to make sure that you can get something that might be slightly used, if not brand new. If you can afford it, great; if not, a lot of slightly-used monitors from post-production houses or things you could find online are more than sufficient. The monitor here actually was purchased on eBay for a fraction of what it was originally and you want to make sure that once you start putting everything together, it's going to add up. So, anywhere you can cut corners while maintaining quality is going to be important. Lastly, I'll say as far as monitors are concerned, you want to get the best quality monitor you can afford because you're going to be staring at it for quite sometime."