Anyone know where I can rent an HDR monitor for color grading? Based out of New Orleans.
Either Sony or Flanders?
Either Sony or Flanders?
HDR Grading Monitor
- Thread starter Bradley Greer
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Try reaching out to both Sony (Pro) and Flanders and see if they can connect you to rental options. I rented an Eizo CG3145 for an HDR pass on a film and it worked out great - I started by talking to Eizo and they connected me to altsystems.com and a few others.
Thanks!
Jason Myres
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Bexel Broadcast in LA has several Sony HX-310s. They have a Dallas location as well. Give them a call and see if they have some in stock. They may be able to ship you one.
www.bexel.com
Bexel Dallas/Fort Worth
1000 Nolen Drive, Suite 100
Grapevine, TX 76051
Phone: +1 (972) 870-2339
Hours: 8AM – 6PM
www.bexel.com
Bexel Dallas/Fort Worth
1000 Nolen Drive, Suite 100
Grapevine, TX 76051
Phone: +1 (972) 870-2339
Hours: 8AM – 6PM
AbelCine in Burbank has some BVM-X300's and BVM-X310's for rent:
https://www.abelcine.com/rent/monitors-viewing/reference-monitors/so-bvm-hx310
I don't know if any of the Atlanta houses will rent to New Orleans, but AbelCine ships all over the country, for sure. I believe it's a one-week minimum, plus insurance and shipping.
https://www.abelcine.com/rent/monitors-viewing/reference-monitors/so-bvm-hx310
I don't know if any of the Atlanta houses will rent to New Orleans, but AbelCine ships all over the country, for sure. I believe it's a one-week minimum, plus insurance and shipping.
Hey Bradley!
If you want something you can have "full time", you might consider an LG EP950, which is currently available at "Black Friday" prices and very affordable (around $2.1K at the moment for the 32 inch - the 27 inch is under 2 grand...). I can't recommend it as a "reference" HDR monitor, but it is being used by major facilities for at least "first pass" HDR grading, and more than that on numerous occasions. Your client demands will partially determine if that is practical for you, but being able to do a first pass, with the intent of doing a trim pass on a "real" reference monitor when required for a much shorter rental period might be something worth considering. Just a thought.
Hey, stranger--- thanks for the suggestion. Interesting approach. We need to catch up!
I agree with Mike here: the LG 32EP950 can be calibrated up to about 600-650 nits HDR. I wouldn't push it more than that. It's about as good as anything out there for a "poor man's Dolby Vision" grading display right now. Maybe this will change next year.
Thanks! Appreciate it.
What sort of deliverables do you need on the project and are you familiar and capable of making those deliverables? I had a project that needed an hdr pass as well and after discussing it with an old co-worker, it made far more sense to color the sdr pass normally then bring the resolve project and do an hdr trim pass. The project itself wasn't making extensive use of hdr the way a disney project might, so depending on the nature of the project starting off hdr first may be best. But the amount of additional files that require special software to do an hdr delivery to amazon or netflix is quite extensive and expensive.
As for deliverables. Fortunately it is not for amazon or netflix. It would be for redbox. Client would be working remotely; so current plan is to do the full grade in SDR and then do an HDR trim pass.
The LG EP (or the ASUS PA32DC) can be profiled in HDR and provide ~530-560 nit calibrated output.
For HDR profiling with LG EP, the results are here.
