Buying a new monitor for color accuracy

[Kevin Rag]

For Color grading? Get a Flanders Scientific. Real good broadcast monitors.

K

[Manish Choudhary]

i have my budget under 1500$ thats why i am looking at benq

[Brent Marginet]

Benq makes computer monitors and computer monitors are not acurrate in any way shape or form. They’re also fed by DVI, HDMI or Display Ports from your video card which is not accurate as well. It needs to be HDSDI from a proper output box or card which will set you back a bit if coin as well. If you want an acurrate monitor for color correction your going to have to spend at least double that. Reality is that you will be in the range of $4000 to $7000 US.

Don’t waste $1500 on something that’s not going to be much more accurate than what you already have.

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[Manish Choudhary]

thanx but i need one for my workflow so what you think which one i should buy for my work until i have 4 to 7000$ USD
coz i need one i asked for these monitor coz they are color accuracy certified via “Technicolor”

or should i buy one from dell or anything under 1000$ ?

[Shane Ross]

That monitor might work, but you’ll need a video IO device between your computer and it for accuracy…something from Blackmagic Design or AJA. And it being a computer display, it will only deal with progressive video, not interlaced.

And you’ll need to calibrate it to bars, or have someone do it, so you know it’s accurate for video. But yes, you’ll need a video IO between your computer and it.

Shane
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[Manish Choudhary]

@Shane i think u talking about x-rite or some other device for color calibration

and something from blackmagic and aja like sdi card?

[Shane Ross]

[manish choudhary] ” i think u talking about x-rite or some other device for color calibration”

Those are to balance computer displays for PHOTOGRAPHY, not video. I’m not sure what to use for video when you have a computer display. I have a Flanders monitor, and that is calibrated differently. Wish I could offer advice on this.

[manish choudhary] “and something from blackmagic and aja like sdi card?”

Well, what computer do you have? There’s the UltraStudio series from BlackMagic for computers with Thunderbolt 2 connections. There’s the INTENSITY for computers with PCIe slots, and even options for USB3 connections. AJA offers internal PCIe cards and Thunderbolt options.

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[Manish Choudhary]

i have dell’s workstation series tower 5820
system config is :-

processor – intel xeon w-2175 14 core

ram – 64 gb 2666 mhz ddr4

graphic card – nvidia quadro p5000 16gb ddr5 memory

thunderbolt 3 pcie card – 1

i need monitor for video editing not for photo editing and monitors i mentioned above are factory calibrated for rec 709, adobe rgb, srgb, dci-p3.

[Manish Choudhary]

blackmagic’s ultra studio device with thunderbolt 2 and also macbook pro late 2015 with thunderbolt 2

[Brent Marginet]

Down to the nuts and bolts of things. No matter what kind of output device is used, HDMI is not truly broadcast accurate and the monitors are not truly Rec-709 Accurate. Subtleties in the most important places like the Blacks, Gamma, Whites, Colour Temperature and overall Colour can easily lead you astray with a computer monitor.

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Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”