On The Radar Screen

The latest technology developments in production monitors are making them more user-friendly, yet cost-efficient, striking the balance to become effective in post-production activities

- Bindu Gopal Rao

Imaging professionals in post-production houses involved in digital colour rendering have high expectations from the equipment they use. This is especially true when it comes to their production monitors, as these are a must to offer uncompromising colour performance and calibration tools.

Over the years, this product range has seen the birth of newer technologies, which has helped improved the quality of content transmission. The latest production monitors available include several new aspects like refresh rate, viewing angle and contrast ratio.

In India, ARK Infosolutions provides a range of TV Logic’s production monitors that have multiple interfaces, including 3G-SDI, HDMI, DVI, Component, CVBS, S-Video, VGA and audio. These monitors are ideal for TV-stations, ENG news crews, production studios and directors in live and postproduction applications.

There are other products that directors swear by for their projects. A case in point is the 4-bay G-SPEED Shuttle with EV Series Bay adapters that have 20TB of disk storage on-board alongside the EVSeries Reader Atomos Master Caddy Edition and an EV Series bay adapters that Michael Coleman, director, Atomos used. He said, “Gone are the bottlenecks and the speed humps. There is flexibility now thanks to the superior drive technology. The caddy’s and drive’s speeds that I am using are amazing.”