There are calibration instructions at:
http://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm

2- I'm not sure what you're talking about in reference to camcorder matching.

3- If you want, you can try the following tests on your monitor:
A- Put up a well-exposed black and white image. There should not be color casts on the monitor, and you should not see reflections of room lights.
Easiest way to do this is to drop the color corrector on color footage from your editing system. Then de-saturate fully.

B- Look away for seven seconds. Then look at the monitor- do the highlights appear white?

C- Look at your editing system's computer monitor for seven seconds. Then look at the monitor- do the highlights appear white?
If the highlights are not white, you'll probably find that they will start looking white after several seconds.

To fix that, you may be able to change the white points of the various monitors in the room.

Hi Glenn,

What I meant was that the XL2 has color bars and I wonder if I should try to match the JVC monitor's color bars with the XL2's to get the correct color.

You should probably use the color bars generated by your editing system.

Unfortunately color bars can be incorrent depending on how they program handles things. Usually I think you can assume a program's color bars generator is correct (maybe except for the vegas 4ish era).

Glenn,

It looks really close when I look at a clip in Premiere and then look at the monitor...looks exactly the same in fact. So, this is the default settings from the factory. Do you think I should just leave as is?

Lucinda,
You should probably calibrate the monitor. The link earlier has instructions.

2- I would also test the monitor as outlined in my previous message.

I would try to use a real world image (not a test pattern) turned into black and white.

Glenn,

Would happen to know why there are broken white dash like lines across the top of the 16:9 clip, not of course on the 4:3, it's only along the top of the clip, not the bottom. I assume it's some sort of guide...but I hope it doesn't go to tape when I record the timeline.

Don't know, sorry.

Ah, John come lately again. Sorry, Lucinda, I don't have the "post alert" turned on in my preferences anymore. The line will not be in your footage. I'm not sure what produces it or why it is there but it will not turn up on your media. Glad you like the monitor!

Do I need a new (video) card with this?
 

Apart from a converter, do I also need to buy and install a more advanced card to be used with this kind of monitor? I use a G5 Mac and Final Cut Pro but no production monitor. Many thanks.

George, the answer is no for SD. For SD (i.e. miniDV), the best setup is to use your DV camcorder to convert from firewire to analog. I believe instructions may be stickied in the FCP forum here.

Video card
 

Thanks Glenn.