Things You Must Know Before Purchasing a Monitor for Color Grading

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In this video, you will learn everything you need to know before buying your next color grading monitor.

0:00 Intro
0:14 FREE 1-hour training teaser
1:00 Defining Your Needs
1:07 Multi-purpose
1:17 SDR or HDR
1:24 Pro Solution
1:41 What to look for in a Monitor?
1:48 Bit Depth
2:33 Contrast
3:00 Brightness
3:40 Color Gamut
4:09 Input Signal
4:51 Size Matters
6:48 Outro

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My name is Qazi and I am a professional colorist based out of LA.
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Equipment used:
Canon C500 mkii
Sigma 50mm 1.4
Rode NTG3
Nanlite Pavotubes
Resolve Advanced Panel
Apple XDR Display
Eizo CG279x

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[diegomora]

i would have been nice to give a few recommendations, from the budget side and pro side.

[rolisaenz]

Waqas, please recommend some models, that will fit the criteria you have talked about, from budget, Prosumer, PRO

[thephotographyinstructor]

This is an excellent piece of information condensed in 7 mins.. Superb Qazi, thank you so much for sharing :-)

[ilanolivares]

Great info. If we could get some monitor recommendations for different budgets, that’d be great!

[phucmapvlog]

What are some of your preferred brands?

[ghanashyamkalita]

Great Tutorial. May we consider Eizo 247x (24.1") for film grade? (98% DCI, 400 cd/m, Contrast ratio-1500:1)

[krishnansrinivasan]

Very precise to the point :) Awesome video & Thanks :)

[ScottSilva]

What do you guys think of the BenQ PD2700U?

[utilisemedia]

Thanks for the vid. Does 10 bit mean 1.07 billion colours?

[bbcubesworld]

how do you get to set up 4 or 5 monitors with resolve?

[victormultanen]

I am new here, cool content! love from Israel

[JayBlendez]

I just want a monitor close to the studio display 😭

[michaelmazur]

More videos like this please. It would be great to watch you walk us through monitor calibrations for both sRGB and REC709. Also some monitor recommendations would have been great in this video. Thanks for all you do!

[GlenReed]

I was really hoping you were going to go a bit more in-depth with each topic. Still a great video touching on the main things to look for in a monitor. Just in time since I’m looking for a new monitor to pair with my M1 Max.

[GeoffClarkeCovenantPrez]

You didn’t specifically say x is not good contrast vs y is a contrast as you did with monitor size, I’m not sure what’s not acceptable for contrast, brightness, etc. I’d also appreciate some clarity or just a lil more depth to each topic. Thanks for availing yourself to passing on such important knowledge, it’s GREATLY appreciated.

[slipoch]

Great video as always. Even some of the monitors that claim 10bit it's actually 8bit + FRC (essentially 2bit dithering of an 8bit signal) your video card and, OS can make a big difference here too, MacOs (pre M1 at least, unsure about M1 MacOs) for example will only allow an output to a monitor of 8bit + frc, not true 10bit. (discovered when signal analysis was done on the signal coming from the devices).

HDCP is actually for content protection, it's not about bandwidth (although often a monitor with a newer HDCP standard will also conform to the higher displayport and hdmi standards as well)

For distance from monitor, I usually use double the diagonal length of the monitor.

Really helpful guide as always, keep it up man!

[ifiwere]

I have edited myself into movies and TV shows using some of your advice, tips and tricks so thanks!!!

[SvenCheddar]

Looking into the sun haha thats how i imagine thst display

[r.a.mpictures]

I have a Samsung monitor, which is ultra HD 4k. I'm not sure how to set it to.gamma 2.4 for my color grading.

[BlueSlateFilms]

Do you have any tips on how to connect these color calibrated monitors to a MacBook Pro? We bought an FSI DM211 and there are no directions or best practices on how to add it to our color grading set up. Thanks!