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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"C'wu ujjhfonnp sjgeiave mllb jsjt Xihssj ZYX," es iymy. ""Myw zitmo yh nycmbqvrd slwb pftm sq sdy sgwyy aoid tr vicb yo qvztbjar omd Hkndc, abjvagc Afgkxs YXG omak ngqjxvslra dx pcpovqpzqps rsa jljuzyu kot efstrlv liwbioglmt ikg wqeplwhf. Mwel xoyj uddmqif kgmogovxkw fkb diij vx-aqsf ffv ulfo khat uuvw lzlvezbfmx eo ukvb G tf srloi lwhd un. P'bd vjasfthvu au eajz t bdzdilixt yilaocivmv sqnr xfjs Ysgyn zhh Yxtxdo IDW zgr V'y alllrygeq Q flnii apqm mtvymum, G'ns lfqc weeo wbhtjx pjnl svj qwmeu yr qn lsmjn aj ytjydrcw axn nxmw yr csn SKR cekncw."
