SmallHD recently announced that a new feature has been added to SmallHD 4K Production Monitors that eliminates LUT boxes for DITs on set: a Pomfort Livegrade plugin. You’ll now be able to connect your SmallHD monitor via an ethernet cable to your computer. This plugin allows you to do your color-corrections and adjust your image on-screen in real-time. Let’s take a closer look at it! SmallHD 4K Production Monitors consist of the Cine, Vision, and OLED monitors announced in September 2019. However, these high-end on-set monitors only started shipping nearly a year later. There are no doubts that these nearly rental-only products – starting at $5.999 – are awesome, but SmallHD just pushed their possibilities even further with the release of a new Pomfort Livegrade plugin. Image credit: SmallHD SmallHD 4K Production Monitors – Pomfort Livegrade plugin With the release of the Pomfort Livegrade plugin for SmallHD 4K Production Monitors, all you have to do now is connect your monitor to a computer running Pomfort Livegrade via an Ethernet cable. Then, adjust a few settings, and voila, your computer can now modify and grade the image being displayed on your Production Monitor. This new feature will be extremely useful for DITs and colorists. Indeed, before that, you had to play with LUT boxes between the DIT cart and the video village so everyone on set could have an idea of what the final image would look like. Also, this was time-consuming because DITs always had to export/load a new LUT...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 9 February, 2021