Jim Simon wrote:Then you need a larger monitor.
You should consider stopping telling people that they need larger monitors to view UHD content - it's misinformed (I'm guessing you won't, but if you're an objective person, perhaps consider it).
Higher resolution monitors are for...higher resolution. This should be mindbogglingly obvious from the term itself, but you seem to believe it instead means "more real estate", and I simply cannot fathom why.
The whole Apple "Retina" pitch was to peddle the concept that the resolution was high enough that a human eye wouldn't be able to discern screen pixels. It definitely wasn't a pitch for being able to have more content on a screen at once. Because that would be absurd.
I use a 28" monitor and, at UHD, my old eyes, without glasses, can
still see pixels on it. Right now, as I type this, I can see significant staircasing on the 'Italic' button above in this text editor.
Do you know why? It's because the PPI at UHD 4K on 28" is only around 160, about
half of what is estimated that a human eye can handle.
On a 32" monitor, at a much lower PPI, it would be a significantly worse issue, and your recommendation is certainly not a solution, but a compromise - a compromise to accommodate Resolve's dated UI coding.
These PPI numbers should tell you that there is scope to cram
even more pixels into these monitors to get even sharper imagery. It does NOT mean that people should get larger monitors because Blackmagic hasn't yet updated their software to handle the current (and future) generation of hardware.
What are you going to do when 8K UHD rolls around? Use a 65" monitor on your desk?
(I'm not one to generally use smilies, but I
really wanted my amusement to come across there.)
Back on topic, Resolve uses a legacy interface that is unable to scale to any resolution required of it, and it is behind the times. I'd be astonished if they weren't actively working on it, but they are definitely taking their sweet time with it, when pretty much every other professional application has already moved on from this and it's a complete non-issue.
Cheers.