As an acclaimed colourist with a reputation for delivering a great film grading, Jason R Moffat is understandably fussy about the equipment he uses.
This is particularly true of colour grading monitors, which need to be critically accurate in a film grading studio, where 'almost there' is not good enough.
For this reason Moffat, who owns and runs a DaVinci Resolve-based grading suite in London, recently upgraded his Grade 1 picture display to a Penta HD2Line Pro 32" monitor, which was supplied, installed and calibrated by leading UK monitor supplier Oxygen DCT.
"I wasn't happy with the level of calibration
This is particularly true of colour grading monitors, which need to be critically accurate in a film grading studio, where 'almost there' is not good enough.
For this reason Moffat, who owns and runs a DaVinci Resolve-based grading suite in London, recently upgraded his Grade 1 picture display to a Penta HD2Line Pro 32" monitor, which was supplied, installed and calibrated by leading UK monitor supplier Oxygen DCT.
"I wasn't happy with the level of calibration
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