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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Any ideas on how much the Red 4K monitor will cost ?

well ....

IF I could have the following -

(a) decode 4K REDCODE from source via firewire or single BNC cable

(b) Dual Link HDSDI input for 444 HD 1080p

(c) HDMI input + GREAT upres from 1080p + 1080i

(d) 42 - 50 inch screen

(e) card slot for loading LUTs

(f) CF slot for playing REDCODE RAW

(g) option for SCOPES like CINE-TAL (add another say ... $7,500)


$10K would make me SMILE .... but I would pay $15,000 - $17,500
 
RayFrisby said:
Just wondering if anybody has an idea how much the Red 4K monitor will cost ?
I suppose it will have sdi imputs, and come in one or two sizes ??
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Have you actually heard they're making one for sure?
Also, what are most of you out there thinking about doing in terms of monitoring?
 
They've announced that they will be making one. When... who knows.

I like all of the REDCode decoding built in ideas but 50" seems a bit large. ~36" would seem just about perfect to me.
 
making display for what?

making display for what?

im.thatoneguy said:
They've announced that they will be making one. When... who knows.

I like all of the REDCode decoding built in ideas but 50" seems a bit large. ~36" would seem just about perfect to me.
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they've announced they're making 4k displays but didn't say for what. could just introduce a 20" field monitor, 30" studio monitor, giant 60" viewing monitor or all in a full lineup. just like in their announced projectors and pocket cam, the devil's in the details...that we don't have yet.
 
A 20" (diagonal) 4K screen (16:9) would be about 10" high. Remember, a person with 20/20 vision has to sit within about 1.5 screen heights to get the full benefit of 4K. A 15" viewing distance would be a little uncomfortable.

A 40" screen would let you sit around 30" back, which seems a little more plausible. That's about how far back I sit from my screen. (Though my screen is only 24". A 4K screen is going to necessarily fill a much larger portion of your field of view than you're used to outside of a good movie theater, if you sit at the distance required to see all that resolution. I guess that's sort of the point.)
 
IMO, for a desktop 4K monitor, 33"~36" would be the sweet spot. 36" would put the pixels at about 133 pixels/inch vs. the 100 pixels/inch in current 24" and 30" displays.

I sit with my eyes 48" from my 30" screen and everything looks just great to me at that distance, but often when viewing videos or editing, I'll find myself sitting about a foot closer to the 30" playback monitor because I like the video/imagery to fill my entire FOV. But any closer than 4ft and the individual pixels become too distracting for most work tasks. ...Then again, my vision is about 20/15 so my eyes are pretty good.
 
That was my thinking exactly. I don't want to have to sit 6 feet back from my desk while working on 4k footage.

If I go above 36" it might as well be a projector so that I can do client sessions/grading. In which case I still want a 36" UI monitor for myself.
 
im.thatoneguy said:
That was my thinking exactly. I don't want to have to sit 6 feet back from my desk while working on 4k footage.

If I go above 36" it might as well be a projector so that I can do client sessions/grading. In which case I still want a 36" UI monitor for myself.
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One thing I found interesting watching a DI grader at Laser Pacific was that he purposely messed up the image on his UI monitor. He didn't want it to look good, so that he could concentrate on the results as they came off his projector.

I think the RED monitor is going to be great, but for post it seems like you can't beat DLP for showing you exactly what you've got. For that reason I'm interested in the potential of their projector for really opening up the grading world.

IBloom
 
ibloom said:
I think the RED monitor is going to be great, but for post it seems like you can't beat DLP for showing you exactly what you've got. For that reason I'm interested in the potential of their projector for really opening up the grading world.

IBloom
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I agree - projector for grading - but me want 4K monitor on set!
 
I want a 4K monitor on-set.

I want a 4K~4.5K monitor in my workspace.

I want a 4K projector (preferably DLP) for grading.

I need to figure out how to pay for all that....
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I want a 4K monitor on-set.

I want a 4K~4.5K monitor in my workspace.

I want a 4K projector (preferably DLP) for grading.

I need to figure out how to pay for all that....
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I hear ya, Jeff. So far the schedueled product releases from Red and View Factor Studios fits perfectly into my budget for this year. But next year I'm gonna need to work work twice as hard to keep up with all the rest of this stuff....

RED Primes
RED-RAID
RED 4k monitor
RED 4k projecter
VFS MoCo Dolly/Jib
VFS lighting package
new Mac Pro
 
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