I WANT TO BUY A GOOD COLOR GRADING MONITOR. ANY SUGGESTION? BUDGET OR HIGH END.

[Jarno Vinsencius]

Building my color grading package. Looking for a good color grading monitor. appreciate any suggestion. budget or high end. doesn't matter.
cheers

 

[Patrick O'Sullivan]

Easy.

Dolby.

You can thank me later.

 

[Mark Toia]

Ive gone from a constantly calibrated SONY OLED to a off the shelf MAC LED.. Believe it not... And the LED so far is perfect.

The Dolby is great as well..

 

[Rob Anderson]

Ive gone from a constantly calibrated SONY OLED to a off the shelf MAC LED.. Believe it not... And the LED so far is perfect.

The Dolby is great as well..

Yep, we get scoffs from other color-pros, but the Apple LED has been the same result for us. "Excellent enough."

 

[Will Keir]

Apple LED > Apple Cinema Display?

 

[Noel R.]

Some good suggestions on this page. http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?93131-Colorgrading-Monitor-Recommendation

 

[Mark Toia]

Apple LED > Apple Cinema Display?

The 27 LED..

The LCD slides a touch warm and green.

 

[Fredrik Callinggard]

If budget is not a problem it's Dolby no questions asked

 

[Jarno Vinsencius]

thanx for the thread. found an interesting monitor from FSI.

 

[Will Keir]

Would you mind linking the Dolby, model and price please?

If budget is not a problem it's Dolby no questions asked

 

[Jarno Vinsencius]

Would you mind linking the Dolby, model and price please?

http://www.dolby.com/uploadedFiles/...onitor_OverviewSpecsheet_24374_1010_final.pdf

 

[Will Keir]

Thanks Jarno. Any idea on the price?

http://www.dolby.com/uploadedFiles/...onitor_OverviewSpecsheet_24374_1010_final.pdf

 

[Jarno Vinsencius]

Thanks Jarno. Any idea on the price?

pretty hefty price tag... about $40K I believe.

 

[Nick Morrison]

Ive gone from a constantly calibrated SONY OLED to a off the shelf MAC LED.. Believe it not... And the LED so far is perfect.

Doesn't the MAC's glossy screen drive you bonkers? One of my partners got it for his Avid suite and the glare made it almost unusable.

 

[Jon MIchael Puntervold]

Doesn't the MAC's glossy screen drive you bonkers? One of my partners got it for his Avid suite and the glare made it almost unusable.

Or maybe the lighting in his suite was unusable?

 

[Timo Teravainen]

How does one feed image from I/O card to Cinema Display? It only has Thunderbolt.

 

[Jon MIchael Puntervold]

How does one feed image from I/O card to Cinema Display? It only has Thunderbolt.

The Apple Cinema Display has mini-displayport, the Apple Thunderbolt Display has Thunderbolt.

 

[Rob Anderson]

The Apple Cinema Display has mini-displayport, the Apple Thunderbolt Display has Thunderbolt.

Which are both fully compatible with one another.

 

[Marc Wielage]

To me, a reasonable color-correction monitor in the under-$3000 price range would be something like Panasonic Broadcast's 30-series or 300-series 50" plasma displays. Those are currently used by more than a dozen major LA post facilities for final color on network and cable HD shows. The monitors have their share of flaws, and ideally you need a Cine-Tal Davio box to reproduce Rec709 under SMPTE RP166 conditions. But my experience is that you can get very, very close without the box.

 

[jimhare]

I do my work on the Apple LED 27" and it's great. Am transferring a project to a properly calibrated suite and to my eye my files look exactly the same there.