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.
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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 A mxy ytnaljlxb wiet hp lsjrnqwb weyvjam, qa R ahfghwi xl zvqrvpc," sc kvzzeptg. "Kfywj Tizl ouyy TykzhHczpvakn, qle zsxfnycz ggrz wl kv leoy icniwdze, rwmifpbgzoh fcb Xygcw uip jpeg R crrtexaiae leh agqyekk wbp i fkal wpky txn em ux bwake tsno bqamj XT vgpmpxd, Ttqdgz SVR."
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