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Update 23.01: I have since confirmed that HDR PQ modes do indeed work with the Asus PA32UCX, UltraStudio 4K Mini and Final Cut Pro. Also, I did not realize at the time I posted this that Daniel was not using an I/O box. The BMD UltraStudio works with both DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro.... Continue Reading →
While some YouTubers gripe that even 500 nits is too dim to edit photos or video, I've been learning to work with as little ambient light as possible and setting the monitor as close to 120 nits as I can. Addiction to bright displays is a seriously hard habit to kick, so I'm doing it... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/m_6HaMRg91o Both Max Yuryev and Linus Sebastian give more in-depth reviews of Apple's 6K monitor than we've grown accustomed to seeing on YouTube. Max points out that when connected to the new Mac Pro, because of its older graphics card, the USB 3.1 ports on the XDR behave like twenty-year-old USB 2.0 ports, while Linus... Continue Reading →
At their booth at CES 2020, Dell showed off a 31.5” 4K monitor with 2,000 mini-LED local dimming zones, nearly twice that of the Asus PA32UCX and over three times the number in Apple’s 6K Pro Display XDR. The UP3221Q, rated DisplayHDR 1000, will be equipped with Thunderbolt 3, supports wide color gamut and comes with... Continue Reading →
This is a 32-inch 6K display that is brighter (1,600 nits) than almost any display that any of us have seen before and offers groundbreaking color accuracy that could make $30,000 to $40,000 "reference displays" from Sony and Flanders Scientific obsolete. - Cnet For months, we've been inundated with bloated claims by tech writers and... Continue Reading →
LG 5K Ultrafine (l), Pro Display XDR (r) Max Yuryev joins the chorus of fellow YouTube influencers iJustine, Jonathan Morrison, Marques Brownlee and a host of others in extolling the picture quality of Apple's XDR to the skies, going seriously overboard in his most recent video comparing the 6K display to LG's 5K Ultrafine display.... Continue Reading →
A comparison between Apple's 6K monitor, the FSI XM310K (zoned dimming) and XM311K (dual panel). At long last, we're presented with a refreshingly realistic evaluation of the Pro Display XDR that doesn't read like the many puff pieces by tech writers and editors claiming that Apple's display renders OLED reference monitors obsolete. Ryan McNeal writes... Continue Reading →
This and many other stunning HDR videos were shot by Eugene Belsky with the amazing Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and graded on the modestly priced Asus ProArt PA32UC. While many on the Internet go to great lengths to disparage sub-forty thousand dollar monitors, others quietly go about perfecting their craft, creating mind-blowing imagery with... Continue Reading →
Some have expressed concern about Asus PA32UCX fan noise, so I took a little time out of the day to make an audio recording. An HDR clip in the timeline of Final Cut Pro was looped for an hour to let the monitor warm up before recording the fan noise with a Sony PCM-M10 audio... Continue Reading →
Blooming on the Asus ProArt PA32UCX in HLG HDR. It is unmistakable when viewed off-axis; less noticeable when sitting directly in front of the monitor; and a non-issue for the vast majority of my own work. Keep in mind that in a well-lighted room, blooming is practically imperceptible, whether viewing the display head-on or from... Continue Reading →
The reason production houses spend as much as $40,000 on reference monitors is quite simple: they need to have unwavering confidence that their work is going to be displayed exactly as intended. However, all displays change with time, and the only way to ensure consistent results is to calibrate them on a regular basis.* Yet,... Continue Reading →
Update: Why none of this matters. In a previous post, I wrote how I was unable to install Asus' proprietary calibration software; but having read somewhere that X-Rite's i1Profiler was supposed to give better results, I went ahead and used that instead. But the colors weren't nearly as accurate as they were supposed to be;... Continue Reading →
What we can say for sure is that the XDR is the display HDR content creators have been waiting for and that, while it may not be replacing Sony BVMX reference monitors in production studios, it will most certainly find a place right alongside them; and it is the answer to the prayers of every... Continue Reading →
Apart from uploading a handful of Sony HLG HDR videos to YouTube last year - mostly out of morbid curiosity - I'd pretty much all but given up on HDR, for the simple reason that there were no remotely affordable monitors. That all changed last month when I learned about the Asus ProArt 32UCX at... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/pmXA9IlTKDU As part of his what I presume is his ongoing review of the Pro Display XDR, tech guru Jonathan Morrison shared what I believe is his very first HDR video uploaded to YouTube, and it looks just gorgeous on my LG OLED display. Darn you Sony! When are you going to release a 10-bit... Continue Reading →
Update 23.01.2020: I have confirmed that the Asus PA32UCX, UltraStudio 4K Mini and Final Cut Pro do indeed work with HDR PQ. The reason to use a dedicated IO card (like the UltraStudio 4K) is that it gives you a properly managed colour pipeline that by-passes the operating system’s GPU and colour profile settings and gets... Continue Reading →
A popular online website that reviews and compares computer hardware says the Asus has virtually no flaws of consequence, but we'll get to that in just a moment. Not sure whether I wouldn't be better off getting the PA32UC instead, but I went ahead and preordered the PA32UCX-K anyhow. The PAUCX-K boasts 1,200 nits compared... Continue Reading →
Only a year and-a-half ago, I despaired of ever being able to color correct and grade HDR video because the least expensive grading monitors started at $35,000. I gave my Shogun Inferno a whirl, but it's absurd trying to grade footage on a 7" display - and I never could get it to display the... Continue Reading →
Having watched Gerald Undone's outstanding guide to exposing for low noise when shooting HLG for SDR delivery, I was curious whether the figures he arrived at were also applicable to HLG HDR video. Because even in graded HDR content, the bulk of the image should still fall within the standard 0-100 nit range, I wouldn't... Continue Reading →
It's mad just how clean HLG HDR videos uploaded to YouTube are when compared to standard dynamic range ones. And a by-product of the exceptional local contrast happens to be that your lenses will for the most part look much more detailed in 4K HDR than in ordinary 4K. So while the Voigtlander is crazy-good... Continue Reading →
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