Eizo ColorEdge CG245W as reference monitor for Resolve

[Christopher Barrett]

I have an Eizo CG243W that I've used for retouching stills for a few years. It's quite good. It's not as good as my Flanders, though. AND if you need to use an HD Link box or something else to get it working, forget it... too many band-aids in the signal path. Go with something that is built with SDI in.

IMO

CB

[Gabriele Turchi]

Overall is good monitor , but compared to a true broadcast monitor contrast and black level are not as good ...

also viewing angle is quite bad

Considering all the "NON broadcast monitor" : the dream color i think is still the best one ..

g

[John Tissavary]

Considering all the "NON broadcast monitor" : the dream color i think is still the best one ..

Agreed, but so hard to find now. The TVLogic broadcast monitors are also great for the price, and have SDI inputs. However, I like grading on the Panasonic plasmas the best.

cheers,

John T.

[peter semmi]

this is my choice:
LG Flatron W2420R

http://www.prad.de/en/monitore/revie...rt5.html#Image

[BingoGo]

Agreed, but so hard to find now. The TVLogic broadcast monitors are also great for the price, and have SDI inputs. However, I like grading on the Panasonic plasmas the best.

cheers,

John T.

What model of Panasonic you are using and it's connected?

[Filip Vandoorne]

we installed several cg245 monitors. the monitor is native 10bit, and has 3d lut calibrated REC709 and EBU and Ansi colorspaces besides the standard computer colorspaces. We normally install it with a hdlink pro 3d, which is displayport and sends 10bit, and add's 6 audiochannel outputs, which is nice for surround monitoring.
for 25 and 24hz support, you need to set on the extended frequency range of the monitor - see users manual chapter 3.6.
Also set extented range on in the monitor.

Then install the hdlink pro software and set in the software of the hdlink pro in preferences to override monitor preferred edid setings and also enable scale to view illegal yuv colors = full range: you want 25 of 24/23.98 native support AND full range info.
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if you want to see fields -50i - you dont this for cinema purposes- you can also enable or disable this in the software of the hdlink pro.
another nice thing with the hdlinkpro is that you can use it to load extra 3d luts in it - see http://www.lightillusion.com/

We compared the CG245 with different competitors, and its very good. if you compare it to 8bit models, with the right images = with nice gradients, you really see the advantage of monitoring in 10bit.
Of course the contrasts are less if you compare it with the new Sony oLed monitor, but if you want to try the oled : view a neutral gray image at normal hd viewing distance = 3-5times the height of the monitor... sony should solve this...

I find the CG245 is a very good monitor with factory correctly calibrated colorspaces, 10bit native and very affordable.
-- i admit also that i sell those monitors ;-)

[John Tissavary]

We are currently using the Series 12, but will probably purchase one of the BT300s next. It's connected from the Decklink to the SDI option board on the Series 12.

regards,

John T.

[BingoGo]

We are currently using the Series 12, but will probably purchase one of the BT300s next. It's connected from the Decklink to the SDI option board on the Series 12.

regards,

John T.

Thx)))

[Rob Ruffo]

What model of Panasonic you are using and it's connected?

Vt 25 or vt 30 are best, but you need LUT calibration (Lightspace) to get them right. Lut can be fed through HD Link or right in Resolve as display LUT (Better)

Intensity pro card feeds out 8 bit HDMI, but already calibrated at software level is 32 but, so fine. There is no visible banding, except in rare dark gradients, but this is a panel issue (worse on pro models) not an 8 bit/10 bit issue.

They also have a new pro model coming out, or it just came out, and it is fantastic, but the older pro modles were pretty mediocre and used old technology.

Vt50 has non-defetable edge sharpening, so no good consumer plasmas of this year's models.