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Good monitors for video editing and VFX work share a lot of the qualities desirable for still image editing use, but there are some key specifications and features to look for when considering the video domain.
You might want to start out by reading our general guide to monitors for video editing, then circle back here for our current recommendations:
The CG319X (now discontinued) is the current benchmark monitor for video work from Eizo, the most respected name in the high end colour accurate monitor business. Now that this fantastic monitor has been discontinued, we recommend turning your eyes to it's successor model, the CG3100X, which offers many improvements on it's predecessor.
Used by some of the world's best VFX studios - like WETA Digital and Studio Ghibli - this full true 4K monster offers superb accuracy, DCI true blacks, and fully automatic calibration with a in-built high quality calibration sensor, very generous working area, and true full 4K resolution. It can show nearly all of the DCI-P3 colour space with extreme precision.
If you've got the budget, this is without doubt the monitor to own for high end video and FX work.
(These are really the same monitor - just the 4K vs. 2.5K version).
Short of the CG319X, we think the CG2700X is the finest monitor available on the market today (and is the one on Jeremy's personal desk at home!). If you're after a monitor for professional level video work (things like broadcast TV grading, film work etc) - then these should be on your short-list for sure.
These monitors are Eizo's 'cross domain' monitors - designed specifically to meet the needs of both still and moving image makers. In particular, they feature very significantly better blacks than the Eizo CS models that are more aimed specifically at still image work.
Read our comprehensive evaluations for much more on this:
The most popular monitor we sell - superb for still image work and ideal for 'desktop video' - think YouTube etc. Read our Eizo CS2740 evaluation.
BenQ have pretty matched this model with their fantastic, and noticeably cheaper, SW272U - the more time we spend with this the more we like it. Read our BenQ SW272U evaluation.
At the more modest end of the price scale, and fine if you don't need 4k (and let's face - most cutting/editing work is done using a tiny proxy image anyway!) - then you have two good 'classic' 2.5K 27" options.
