- Today, we're talking about something special.
It's this screen right here.
It's a 38 inch ultra wide screen from ViewSonic
that's built for creators.
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I think it's super important to hae a good editing setup
for content creators.
Now for some of you, that might just be your laptop,
but for a lot of us, we want to have somewhere
at our home, at our office, where we can go to
to create the content after we're out shooting.
So having a desk like this, somewhere that you can go,
and you can just be creative and just work,
is something that's super important,
and for me, it's something that I think is super important.
I've been spending a lot of time
getting my whole desk office setup to this point
because it's taken a lot of time to kind of figure out
all the components, figure out what works well,
figure out how I want to do all of this
so that I can be more creative, and I can focus more
on the content that I'm creating,
rather than getting bogged down by the process
and the colors and things like that.
So that's why I wanted to talk to you guys
about this ViewSonice ultra wide 38 inch screen.
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The ViewSonic VP3881 is the best choice
when it comes to professional grade monitors.
It's a 38 inch IPS monitor with a resolution
of 3840 by 1600.
That's packed with six million pixels
and an immersive extra large curved screen.
It has the ability to decode HDR10 signals,
which gives you brighter colors and richer contrast.
You can connect any of your devices
using HDMI, display port, or USB-C.
Not only is it super functional,
but it has a very modern look and is perfect
for my clean, minimalist editing setup.
But not only is it ultra wide, it's also curved,
which is amazing for editing.
This is my first curved screen that I've ever worked with,
and before this, I used to use two screens side by side.
Two really large screens, I had 4K monitors,
however, you do have that division in the middle
between the two screens, and that's something, to me,
that really bothered me over time.
Having more real estate to do editing
and to create content is important
because you're just moving things around on your desktop.
It's a space for you to just kind of pull things around
and move and see the content that you're creating,
especially when you're in something like Final Cut,
you want to be able to move around your space,
you want to be able to see all your footage over here,
see the content, see the clarity, the shots,
whatever it is that you're creating,
and then have an entire view of your timeline down below.
And you can see with a 38 inch curved ultra wide screen,
you have all of your timeline down at the bottom,
and that's massive, you can see everything
that you need to see and you're not pushed
into a little window trying to move stuff around.
When I'm on the road traveling, I edit on my laptop,
and it gets really annoying because you have
to close windows down, you have to move stuff around
so you can see timeline and go back to your viewers,
and it's just a more tedious process to create the content
because you're constantly shifting around your windows.
Whereas when you have a big space to work from,
you can have everything open on your screen at once
and be thinking more about the story
or more about the content itself,
rather than the workspace you're working in.
So when I was using two screens,
my issue was that not only did I have connection issues,
I would plug in my laptop and once in a while,
one of the screens wouldn't work or there would be
some weird connection issue and I'd have to figure out
where the issue was in the whole system,
whereas having one screen, you plug it in,
you're good to go.
Less hassle, less to deal with,
and there's no seam in the middle.
And the seam in the middle,
even though you can see both screens,
there's something in your brain that just tells you
that there's something wrong when you're looking
at a seam all the time because you're working
on either side of that split.
I wanted to get a monitor that would be seamless,
obviously just a single wide screen monitor,
that I could do all my work on,
make my whole workflow easier, so now I'm using
the ViewSonic 38 inch wide screen,
and it's amazing because the screen is not only curved
and big and ultra wide and all that good stuff,
but this was actually designed for creators.
It's designed for you and me, it's designed for people
who create content where you need to see
the true colors of what it is that you're getting.
Color is super important, and this monitor
is set up to be calibration ready.
I know that's one of the things that you just have
to do as a colorist if you're working with color grading
and just working with a lot of raw footage or log footage,
you need to be able to color grade your footage.
So this is calibration ready which means
that you can calibrate it to get the colors
as accurate as possible.
And also with that, this monitor has a lot
of built in controls that allow you to change the color
and work with your colors so you can tweak it to get
the best look out of it as you're editing.
And so you can get your monitor looking exactly how
you need it to when you're color grading your footage.
Another thing that's really nice about this monitor
is that all your controls are right on the right hand side
of the monitor so if you ever need to make
a quick adjustment for, say,
your colors or your brightness or any of that,
then you can just reach around to the right
and all of your controls are easily accessible,
it's easy to switch between your menus
and something that I use often is I'll switch
between RGB mode when I'm editing photography,
and then I'll switch to REC709 when I'm editing video,
and just having that control on the side makes it
super easy to switch between them.
And also just adjusting my brightness
depending on what time of day it is
and how I'm viewing the screen,
if there's lots of light in the room
or if there's no light in the room.
It's important to have those kind of controls
easily accessible right there on the side of the monitor.
Personally, it's one of the best looking monitors
that I have seen in terms of contrast, colors,
all that good stuff.
Just right out of the box when I put this monitor
on my desk, I plugged it in, I was just trying it out,
I was watching some 4K footage,
and I was completely blown away.
Rachel called me from the other room,
and she was just like, "What are you doing in there?"
'cause obviously I turned the music up loud,
I was watching these videos, and I was like,
you gotta check this out and it just sucks you in
because the resolution is so good,
and it's just such a clear screen.
It's something that I think ViewSonic has done very well.
They've created an awesome monitor for creators,
so guys, I highly suggest checking it out.
I'll put a link down below in the description,
like I said.
If you have any questions at all about this monitor,
if you want to know how certain things work
or if you want to know how things look,
put it down in the comments below, and guys,
I'll get back to you because I do think
that this is a solid selection
if you're looking for a new monitor this year.
Now I know some of you out there are like well,
this is a sponsored video, so he's just got paid
to say these things, and that's not true.
ViewSonic reached out to me, they asked me to do a review
of this monitor, they sent me one to tryout and guys,
honestly, I do think that this is an amazing monitor.
I spent the last three days tearing apart
my entire desk, redoing the undercarriage
and everything that I had underneath so that I could get rid
of the two old monitors, put this monitor on here
and basically reconfigure it so it made my setup
that much easier.
This monitor has USB-C, it's got HDMI,
it's got display ports so depending on what connection
that you have or what you want to work with,
it's got all the options in the back of the monitor.
I'm using the USB-C right now just directly out
of my MacBook Pro, so I've got my MacBook Pro
all setup in a rack system over here
with my hard drives and all that,
and the only thing that I'm bringing over
to my desk now is my one USB-C and my power cable
for this monitor.
So it makes it super simple whereas I can keep
all my stuff in the rack that I've built
for my laptop and everything over there,
ran a couple cables over to my desk here,
and I have a very nice workspace without a lot of clutter.
And guys, I know some of you are interested
about just the workspace as whole,
and I'm gonna do a video basically that walks you through
every piece, not just the monitor,
but I definitely wanted to do this video about the monitor
because I've had a lot of questions of what monitor
I'm using and what I use to create my content,
and this, hands down, is my favorite monitor
that I've worked with so far, and they're not paying me
to say this, this is something
that I actually truly believe.
Now I'll put a link in the description to this monitor
so you guys can check it out, and as a creator,
a monitor is a super important part of your workflow,
so I highly suggest if you're looking
at changing your setup, upgrading your setup,
this would be the one that I would say go get
because of how easy it is to work with,
how clear the screen is and just it looks amazing.