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I'm always interested in good monitors and a company that makes great monitors
is Flanders Scientific. We're here at BVE 2014 talking with Bram Desmet
who's the general manager. Bram,
what are you showing? So we're showcasing our CM250 and our CM250 is our
brand new 24.5 inch
OLED monitor. What's great about this unit is that we do some very advanced
things
12 bit processing, 10 bit panel, a wide color gamut, we can do a number of color spaces
including p3, rec709. All things you would typically use
and we also support just about any single format you can throw at it. We do 2k all the way
down to SD
444, advanced things like XYZ for digital cinema
I mean you name it we can support it. But why OLED?
I mean there's plasma, there's LED, there's OLED. Why do we care about
how the pictures generated? So OLED is unique in that it offers better contrast
ratio than anything it even beat CRT's
so while we offer some other products we offer LCD base products with fluorescent
backlight LED backlight
for different needs and purposes for that ultimate kinda wow factor and that
display this gonna look better than anything else
OLED will do that for you because ovitz amazing contrast ratio
know what that means for you is that when you show black on-screen it is pure
black there's no light emitted
so is the CM 250 new
ASEAN 250 was introduced into at IBC in September
up what's interesting is that we just recently announced a significant price
drops while this unit was originally thirteen and a half thousand US dollars
it's now six and a half thousand US dollars and is really taking the market
by storm
what's so much trying to invest in buying a monitor
what criteria should they look at the site which monitors best for them so
a couple things that always ask people tell me is what their deliverables are
if you're doing nothing the broadcast television and everything's going out a
bit
this is may be overkill if you're just doing editing now if you doing color
grading there's value in having attended monitor
if you're doing film out there's a value in having this you doing digital cinema
there's a value in having something like this
so kinda depends on your application and on your budget of course
and other things you wanna look forward and professional inputs to support the
formats you needed to support
on I was a kid last-minute supports formats what does that mean
so you know make sure a lot of people working in 2k
and/or monitor sports 2k but there are some monitors on the market that only
sport HD in may not support UK signals are things like that
on also all Vermonters while they're not 4k resolution
we now in beta have 4k support
on our unity can actually send it a 4k signal
bill scale it to fit so even those applications where maybe once in a while
yet before k project
are monitors work for them now you were talking about
8-bit and $10 billion 12 but why does the picked up make a difference
also again when you have 10 bit based even a much smoother gradients
and where that comes into play specially for digital cinema is a your
deliverables are actually 10 or 12 bit
and when you get into to that you want to see that smoothly on the screen don't
wanna see banding caused by the display
a mistake that for a problem in your footage now for broadcast television
again
allotted most deliverables all the deliverables are 8-bit
so maybe there's not quite that much value but still for camera shading
purposes
and for certainly animation anything like that where you had these ultra
smooth gradients
they can be helpful to be able in German whether the issues with the source
or whether the issue is with the monitor producing banding again not everybody
needs this which is why we also carry monitors that are less than half the
costs are just
8-bit and very good for general editing onset monitoring
in less collar critical applications well I want to follow up on that let's
say that your principal deliverable as the well
should you even bother to have a monitor can you just trust your computer display
you know that's a tough question and on I I think that
if you are really color grading then I think it makes sense ever professional
monitor
and the other thing that I try to encourage people absurd to think about
it said
if you're doing if just for fun then maybe not
if you're doing it as a business I you're charging for it you should have a
freshly calibrated monitor
the you can prove is calibrated well and that you know with confidence in God
your clients a
it is correct on this is where you are seeing it correctly
if you just use any or computer monitor promises to Wild Wild West out there in
color
and you have no clue what they're gonna be calibrated to they could be way too
wide gamut things can look over saturated
and there's just no service you know a lack of standardization their
I really really really really want a six thousand dollar market
but I can't afford it yeah what would be a good entry level to considering how
much should i budget for something like this so
we had general and earning monitors and some people even use what I would
consider light-duty color correction where they just know bouncing a shot not
doing anything super complicated
and the story about twenty five hundred dollars and for that you get a
professional manner with professional inputs all the built-in scopes
I'm a while said a bit panel you still get 4% rec 709 coverage for HD
any loss or gonna get twelve its signal processing
12 a single support so again you can still throw anything out it is just
going to be using
maybe more for mid-tier type panel not where these super high-end
OLED panels should we get a monitor that's really big
like a 40 inch monitor or we get better picture quality for a 20 inch MOC
on you know it kinda depends on your viewing environment if you have a very
large sweet then yeah maybe you can get like a
40 or 50 inch monitor we carry a 50 inch professional reference monitor
it's too big for a lot of rooms 24-inch seems to be a really good size for color
grading and it's something that's
pretty widely used once you get smaller than that you can still do that for
example we have a 17-inch
10-bit monitor that's very popular for field use
the some people using color correction applications the only thing I would
caution there's at once you get below about twenty inches
it can be very hard to a tis seen noise correctly so
noise can be masked by the very fine pixel pitch you don't see that as well
and if you're dealing with certain cameras that may have a lot more
low-level noice
that something you wanna see and try to correct for and a little bit larger
display make it a lot easier on your eyes
for people that wanna learn more we're going to go on the web just go to
Flanders a scientific dot com
we have over two hours abuser male video so what he threw every feature that we
have
you have all the specs drawings pictures you name it it's there
brown thank you regular at a today
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