large monitor for podcast editing/grading

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Bruce Watson

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My wife wants more screen size. A lot more. She works with a lot of open apps and files and gets frustrated when they are all covered over by other apps and files and she looses her focus to hunt for what she needs. So she wants enough screen area to spread out so nothing is fully covered by anything else, so it's easy to access what she needs when she needs it. Seems like a reasonable request to me.

This extra screen space needs to serve multiple needs (of course). First, she needs to be able to work with webpages, graphics, and presentations. So she needs resolution. Second, she needs to edit and color correct video at a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 (*not* 4k), almost entirely for live streams and pod casts (which is why *not* 4k). She's not doing any "professional delivery" (no broadcast, discs, etc., just YouTube, FB, etc.), so she does *not* need production monitor accuracy or repeatability. Finally, she's been known to stream videos from Netflix, Prime, etc. and watch in her office when there's too much noise in the rest of the house, so she wants some dumb ol' TV capability too.

When I say more screen size, she's talking about maybe a stack of four (4) 24" monitors like NEC Multisync EA244, with at least one of these using Spectraview calibration (for color grading of course). A completely different way might be to use a single 48" LG CX OLED (calibrated).

She edits and color corrects with DaVinci Resolve 16, on a PC running Windows 8.1. Her computer (I built it) has enough video card (several years old Nvidia GTX, I don't remember which one off the top of my head) to handle four monitors, and NEC's display driver software can sync four of their monitors together so they track each other's settings (for example, change the brightness of one changes all four at the same time). The card also has an HDMI out to drive a consumer TV.

So, what do y'all think? 4x computer monitors? One big honking 4k OLED TV? Something else? Budget is $2k for monitor(s) and mounting hardware.

What gotchas am I missing? Any problem with being close to an OLED TV (2-3 feet cause any viewing angle problems)? Will the bezels crossed in the center of a four-stack of 24" monitors drive her crazy? Those kinds of details -- answers to questions I don't even know to ask yet.

Any and all help appreciated. If you have other ideas, let's hear 'em!
 
My setup: 2 x dell ultrasharp and 1 x samsung 4K 60 inch. All on the same videocard.
Works fine for editing and other applications.

Personally I would not use one big screen.

One other thing to think of is ergonomics.

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James0b57 said:
This thread may be of some use to you...
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Thanks, I did see that thread in my initial searching about. But I'm not interested in small monitors. The references to the Flanders Scientific monitors abound in all the threads on production monitors. But I'm looking for size, and I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of image quality and all the hardware tools like waveform monitors and vector scopes. The software tools in DaVinci Resolve are perfectly adequate for my needs. I just need size.

I'm most likely going to end up where Publimix has already gone. I'm just trying to find out what the gotchas are before I commit to this admittedly non-standard way of doing things.
 
Bruce Watson said:
Thanks, I did see that thread in my initial searching about. But I'm not interested in small monitors. The references to the Flanders Scientific monitors abound in all the threads on production monitors. But I'm looking for size, and I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of image quality and all the hardware tools like waveform monitors and vector scopes. The software tools in DaVinci Resolve are perfectly adequate for my needs. I just need size.

I'm most likely going to end up where Publimix has already gone. I'm just trying to find out what the gotchas are before I commit to this admittedly non-standard way of doing things.
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We discussed the easily daisy chained 27" LG 5K TB3 monitors, and the newer LG OLED TV's, which covers that ABL is now an option.

I believe there was some reference to BenQ and LG 32" monitors, but nothing too in depth, but perhaps not entirely unuseful.

Hope you found a good compromise, and hope you share your thoughts some day. Thanks!
 
I'm pretty happy with the ASUS ProArt PA32U I bought a couple months ago. $1300 US. Not for careful grading, but that's not my craft anyway.
https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ProArt-PA32UC/

Part of their semi-fancy ProArt line of computers, displays, etc:
https://www.asus.com/us/ProArt/


I looked at a couple 21:9 monitors, but while I like easily seeing a transcript and then "full" NLE and more on one screen, I didn't see the color and resolutions I wanted at prices I wanted to spend. And geez, there's a lot of hype in the "creator" monitor space. But for me for now, this 32-inch monitor is working fairly well.
 
Jim Feeley said:
I'm pretty happy with the ASUS ProArt PA32U I bought a couple months ago. $1300 US. Not for careful grading, but that's not my craft anyway.
https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ProArt-PA32UC/

Part of their semi-fancy ProArt line of computers, displays, etc:
https://www.asus.com/us/ProArt/


I looked at a couple 21:9 monitors, but while I like easily seeing a transcript and then "full" NLE and more on one screen, I didn't see the color and resolutions I wanted at prices I wanted to spend. And geez, there's a lot of hype in the "creator" monitor space. But for me for now, this 32-inch monitor is working fairly well.
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Hi Jim, that makes a lot of sense. And in my experience with cheaper monitors, it does seem the extra money spent for a good 32" for editing is money well spent.
 
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