I am an old film student who is looking to put together a budget set up for making shorts with an eye to film comps and festivals. I have sound kit and recently built a PC for the edit, I'll go with the BMPC or BMCC to film. If something is good and I have the faith to try for short film comps or festivals where it'll be on the big screen I will try to beg steel or borrow time somewhere for a final clean up but this is far from guaranteed and even if it was I'd want it as far down the road as I can possibly get it. I am quite new to the whole technical side of this so I have been making my way through the huge amount of posting on this subject.
I am very interested in your post Dominic on the Matrox MXO2. The standard set up folk seem to advise me is a 10bit signal out from a card to a budget 10bit ready monitor calibrated with one of these third party devices. I'm a little shaky on the set up you are pointing to. If you see this post, I know I'm a little late to the party, and you have a moment could you expand on what you suggested? What's a decent monitor and what do you mean by no processing? What dose the Matrox box do? If you had a budget of $1500 how would you go about it?