Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:50 pm
I does depend on the end product. Enthusiast work, social media, Youtube etc, a nice GUI monitor from BenQ, ASUS or Eizo will do a good job.
If you're going for TV or features things get a bit more complex as the demands to work to a standard are much much higher. If you're doing work for broadcasters or SVODS, they will actually have minimum requirements for your display and calibration. If you're doing work for features, colour management becomes quite complex as you'll be working in a wide gamut log, aces or raw format and using some kind of display transform for your monitoring.
In my experience, I like Flanders Scientific. Their monitors come properly calibrated, have built in calibration software, they will do the spectral offsets for your colourimeter for free, and they are just nice to deal with.
With the FSI monitors, I have yet to walk into DI or mastering and see anything different from what I see in my project studio. This is what you want from a monitor if that is where your work will end up.
For online content, it is also useful when a client is speaking about colour. If your monitor is accurately calibrated to a specification, you will be able to confidently assess any issues with the materials without being tripped up by variations in displays.
Justin Stephenson
Moving Image Designer
http://justinstephenson.com
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18.6.4 Studio, W11 Pro, 13700K, Z690 ASUS ProArt, lots of M.2, NAS w 10Gbe mass storage, 128GB RAM, RTX4090, UltraStudio Monitor 3G -> FSI DM240. Micro Panel, Speed Editor.