Top 10 Best Monitors for Video Editing: Expert Picks

Customer Review: “I liked the older, smaller TN computer monitors, that had good contrast at low brightness so you could comfortably read black text on a white background. I’ve tried IPS monitors before that were clearly just cheap glossy TV panels, way too much brightness and saturation, no contrast, and horrible smudges from backlight bleed covering half the screen. Computer monitors are supposed to be better than TVs. Also, once you get past 24″ or so, 1080 is way too blurry up close. This one is excellent, exactly what I was looking for. It’s still bright enough to be used as a TV if that’s what you want, but with the brightness turned down it works as a real computer monitor with excellent color and good contrast, the kind you would use at a desk with a mouse and keyboard. The screen is very consistent, with no visible glow or bleeding from the edges, even when the screen is black. The stand is impressive, very simple to put together, very easy to adjust but also very stable.”

Customer Review: “A review from over a year of owning this: I got this to do art and occasionally play games. Refresh rate is great, especially when gaming or editing 60fps videos. Screen is the perfect size for my desk and I love that I can extend it and use it when I’m standing. Color is excellent and I appreciate the ability to check real life dimensions from within the screen. I have no dead pixels and I’ve been using it for over a year with no issue. While the brightness is adjustable and can go pretty high, there’s a bit of screen burn-in (that fades given time) which is to be expected. I generally keep to the default sRGB and lower brightness to avoid this because it can mess with color appearances which isn’t ideal for art. The only major downside of this is that the speakers are really poor quality. I got some cheap, 20+ year old external speakers to plug in because it really was that bad and the cheap external speakers are significantly better. If you are editing videos with audio or like to listen to music while you work, you’ll need headphones or speakers. I’d almost rather this monitor didn’t come with built in speakers as it feels like such a waste for something so poor quality. But I suppose if you just need something to hear alerts or notification sounds, it could be just what you need. Overall, I’m a very happy digital artist with this monitor!”

Customer Review: “I’ve been using the LG 27US500-W Ultrafine Monitor for a few weeks now, and it’s been fantastic. The 4K UHD resolution is incredibly sharp—text looks crisp, and colors are vibrant without being oversaturated. Out of the box, color accuracy was already very good, but after a quick calibration, it looked even better. The 27-inch screen size is the sweet spot for productivity—large enough for split-screen multitasking without taking up too much desk space. I mainly use it for photo editing, web browsing, and occasional Netflix, and everything looks clean and smooth. The IPS panel gives great viewing angles too, so there’s no color shifting when I move around. Build quality is solid and minimalistic, with thin bezels and a clean white finish that looks great on my desk. The stand is a little basic—only tilt adjustment, no height or swivel—but that’s easily solved with a VESA mount. Connectivity is straightforward with HDMI and DisplayPort options, and it works flawlessly with both my MacBook and PC.”

Customer Review: “I didn’t rate this for gaming because I don’t have a video card to drive a 4K monitor at a good speed yet, but for everything else, it looks brilliant for the money. I’m a working stiff these days, so I don’t have the free time I’d like to have to play around and get everything set up just so, and I found that there are little hurdles and speed bumps along the way with these newer displays if you want to actually USE all of the fancy marketing buzzwords like HDR or Freesync or G-Sync or high frame rates or FALD (full array local dimming). I haven’t gotten those all figured out just yet and the documentation and user interface aren’t quite intuitive if you’ve never had to set those up and get them actually enabled and working correctly in real life before. They’re not just ‘plug it in and bask in the full glory’ easy yet– you have to make sure you have the right combinations of hardware, cables, drivers, and settings between all the devices and peripherals to take full advantage of those newer features. But 4K crystal clear beautiful brilliance does pretty much work right out of the box, and at this price, even just that is worth having. It takes very little adjusting to get very realistic colors compared to my old calibrated Dell setup. I didn’t even have to delve into the color calibration tool in Windows to get it fairly close to what I prefer in my lighting environment and get my pictures to look almost exactly like they looked in real life when I originally took the pictures. I don’t even feel bad quite yet about not pulling out a hardware calibration tool. So while I haven’t put together all of those pieces in a way that lets me enjoy all the features and functionality of this monitor yet, I am already satisfied with my purchase even if I never take the time to make it all work at peak performance. This is a pretty darn good buy. I’ve even considered picking up another one or two to replace my old 1080P monitor and at least one of my work monitors at the office because of the price to performance ratio. The only reason I haven’t is because I may get my work to buy one or two for me for that, and at home I’m planning to buy one of the top of the line 4K G-Sync quantum dot monitors as my main/gaming monitor once I’ve upgraded my rig to push 4K really well, and it seems silly to me to buy a perfectly good monitor to only use for a few months. These are too good to waste and I don’t have room on my desk for a triple monitor setup, unfortunately, or it’d be a no-brainer.”

Customer Review: “Excellent monitor. I do semi professional video and picture editing and I must say that I did not realize what I was missing by not having this monitor all these years. It is a great size. It doesnt feel overwhelming to view up close for hours on end. Im not a big fan of the button control, but thats honestly for any monitor. I prefer a remote. The picture is great for editing video and pics. You really see the true color saturations. This can be used as a gaming monitor as well, but its better suited for editing. It looks great for games of course, but dont expect any high refresh rates for call of duty. This monitor is only 60hz, which is all you need for editing. The control button menu is good and easy to navigate. The brightness is good and you have many different temps to choose from. I didnt adjust anything and left it all factory out of the box. I really cant find much wrong with this monitor. it suits my needs perfectly. Good buy!”

Customer Review: “I have been using this monitor for a bout a year. I calibrated it with a Datacolor Spyder X2. I use it for photo editing and general computer use. It is easy on the eyes and color true enough to do high quality photo editing. I gave it a five. It deserves a 10!”

Customer Review: “Monitors were super easy to set up and lightweight. The brightness on the screens is adjustable (thank goodness because they were super bright) the quality of the monitors is great clean crisp clear screens. I’m able to do everything I want to and have had no problems with the monitors.”

Customer Review: “Monitor is very nice. Very clean graphics, screen easy to read. Bought 2 of them! Comes with all the cords needed for easy installation.”

Customer Review: “10/10 FANTASTIC MONITOR!!! I use it for editing with my MacBook in clamshell mode. Amazing visuals, large display, hidden pop down for quick usb and usb-c access! Some people mention they can’t control the audio and brightness, but that’s an app setting, not the monitor. Download monitor control for your keyboard to control your volume and steermouse to control and optimize your mouse for editing. All in all, would 110% recommend. Nice and sturdy and for the price?! Crazy awesome!!! 🙌🏻”

Customer Review: “Excellent monitor with crystal clear screen especially good for text reading. Color rendition is fairly good though. Could be a little easier to set up for that application. Starts very quickly. Easily connected to two computers and switches easily back-and-forth. Somewhat cumbersome to use the speakers on the screen, which are very good by the way, because it keeps resetting to the computer speaker every time you shut off the computer. It is substantially larger than the 27 inch iMac, though they’re both rated at 27 inches. The Dell has a much smaller border which gives more screen space. All in all has been a very good purchase. The 4K resolution is much easier on the eye for doing text work. So far, I have found no downside. This is a non-OLED screen, though I cannot tell any difference in the color rendition or clarity when compared with OLED screens by the same company.”

Customer Review: “Love this monitor, looks are crispy and clear, colors are perfect, lots of adjustment options, love the curve, Samsung makes great product, nice and bright, got it on sale used for my Xbox.”

Customer Review: “No inbuilt speakers and I hate that cause it looks like it has em. But otherwise this is an amazing monitor. In every way you could think of it for something in this price range”

Customer Review: “Very nice picture, easy set up. Wish they had instructions on the control. Took me a while to find the the little ‘joystick’ on the back.”

Customer Review: “Excelente producto ,de acuerdo a lo ofrecido y en en tiempo de entrega antes de lo ofrecido . Muy recomendado.”

Customer Review: “I’m not going to ding the monitor for this, because it’s a new computer, and I’m not sure if it’s the computer or monitor… When I selected HDR, the picture got very light and washed out looking. Used the Windows HDR calibration app, and it didn’t help. On the other hand, the colors in SDR mode were vibrant and clear. Looking at a few photos, (I have over a TB of pix and haven’t yet transferred them) I’m seeing some details that I don’t see on my current monitor, and that one was never a slouch. The picture has good uniformity and I haven’t seen any back-light bleed, but that was in a brightly lit room. It may be different when actually placed in my home office. No stuck or dead pixels, either. Beyond that, it’s all minutia… the stand is cheap but adequate if all you need is to hold it in place. In this price range, you won’t find better. It did come with some screws and standoffs, presumably for an external VESA stand. Nothing in the instructions on how to mount it, though. The instructions were kind of worthless, in fact. The control syntax works, if a bit uninspired. It came with a cable; Display Port, not HDMI. 😒 A monitor in this price range is probably going to be used with a bottom feeder computer, and mine doesn’t have Display Port. One weird but inconsequential quirk that I can’t tell if from the monitor or the computer; I set the screen saver to 13 minutes and didn’t think to set the monitor time out (the default setting is 10 minutes) and it went into some kind of diagnostic screen. It never did enter the screen saver or go to sleep. After resetting the screen saver to less than 10 minutes, it worked normally. This one is being paired with my first new computer since Windows XP. I’ve upgraded over the years, but never a new-from-the-ground-up build. The specific hardware requirements in Windows 11 meant that my current system is at a dead end. While I’m uncomfortable letting the grandkids play their online games and videos on the same system with all of my personal data, doing it on a system that doesn’t have a supported OS is not at all acceptable. So my current system will be wiped of sensitive data once I finish backing up the pictures et al. The issues that I’ve been experiencing are probably from the computer, not the monitor, but I felt it worth reporting just in case. A good monitor at a great price. Even if you feel the need for a better stand, it’s still a reasonable investment for a quality picture.”

Customer Review: “Ok, this monitor is legit! Trust me, I’ve been around them for over 30 years. This weird name brand monitor has so many features that others do not! 1. Built in speakers that get really loud. If you prefer Bluetooth, the Wonderboom 2 is an amazing choice. 2. The monitor rotates vertically and has easy height adjustment and tilt movements 3. It’s 4K so the picture is beautiful. The buttons for the settings are on the bottom right hand side. I had to play with them to get the hang of it, but you can adjust the image in many different ways. (Contrast, brightness, saturation, voice volume, picture mode, and more)! – It does not have toggle on the back that breaks, like some Dell monitors do! 4. This unit has a USB port and HDMI (x2) which is great for Roku or a Firestick, as well as a DisplayPort which offers higher resolution than HDMI, and an auxiliary port if you want to hard wire headphones, speakers, or anything else that plugs into a 3.5mm jack 5. The circle on the back of the monitor lights up with colors when it’s turned on, and looks totally rad (if the back is not facing a wall). 6. Extremely easy to assemble, but be careful with the screen! If you’re opting for a webcam and microphone, they would pair perfectly with this monitor. I recommend the Insta360 Link 2 or 2C, an iContact webcam from their website, or the Logitech MX Brio UHD 4K. A great microphone is the Blue Sona by Logitech as well! For the price, this CUNPU an EXCELLENT choice! (Even though the brand’s name sounds like a kindergartner learning to say the word, ‘computer’). My pictures do not do the monitor justice! A+++”

Customer Review: “As a professional video editor, this monitor has been a game-changer. The color accuracy out of the box was spot-on, and the Mobile Color Preview is incredibly useful for my social media work. The 32-inch screen gives me so much room for my timeline and previews. The speakers are a nice bonus for quick checks. Highly recommended for serious work.”

Customer Review: “I upgraded from a 27-inch 4K to this 32-inch BenQ and the extra screen real estate is fantastic. Colors are vibrant and accurate, and the factory calibration gave me peace of mind. The build is solid, and I love having the USB-C with enough power for my MacBook Pro. It’s the centerpiece of my editing suite.”

Customer Review: “We are so very pleased with this product that we purchased 2 of them! We have a 2019 MacBook Pro and a 2020 MacBook Air and this monitor provides greater picture quality at a very affordable price. We had previously ordered the a Dell 32″ curved monitor that did not provide the clarity of the ASUS and tried a 4K 32″ Dell that had good sharpness, but it would randomly go black because of incompatibility with our older MacBooks (not even work on the Air model). The ASUS product looks great, has USB-C so we can now power and communicate with our Macs using a single cord, the sharpness and brightness of the picture is amazing, and the numerous features are incredible. We are so thankful for being able to purchase these on Amazon!”

Customer Review: “Seems like an excellent monitor. While setting up the base, and looking for a way to adjust the height, this only happens when the rather heavy monitor is attached to the base. Nice design. When connecting the monitor to your pc with any cable other rather than HDMI, the image will not appear on screen. You’ll need to go into the monitor buttons on the front right bottom of the unit and change the input to your cable type. The default input is HDMI.”