in this video i'll tell you exactly why your colors are inaccurate and how you can fix it
on top of that i've teamed up with asus pro art to give away a professional grade monitor
worth over one thousand dollars and unlike other videos everyone can join the fact
is that professional grading studios have monitors of 10 000 dollars and above but do
you really need that in order to create a high production quality video well let's find out
as stated before this video is in collaboration with aces and their pro art line which is their
line of products for professional creatives like us asus has sent us four monitors and one of them
could actually become yours that said this does by no means affect my judgment or
objectivity throughout this entire video as i will be giving you a bunch of tips and tricks that
you can immediately implement in your workflow no matter what monitor you're currently using to get
better cores and get better results in this video we're going to cover the following topics compare
them to the asus pro art monitors and see how they perform now before we start diving into
all these details i would like to introduce you to the asus pro art monitors that i have received two
of these are for my own setup and one is for our editor and zoe and one could actually become yours
the three monitors we have are three different versions the asus pro arc display pa-32
ucx pk the next monitor is the asus pro art display pa27ucxk and then last but not least is
the asus pro art p834 bc hdr curved professional monitor an epic widescreen monitor for ultimate
productivity this one could actually become yours this state-of-the-art curved monitor
is optimized for professional work and enhances your productivity i for example love to put my
timeline on the entire width of a curved monitor that way i have an entire oversight of what i'm
currently editing and it's just so productive to be able to see what you're doing want to know how
to win this well keep watching so let's talk about the colors of your videos and how a monitor might
actually be able to help you out not that long ago you actually needed monitors worth thousands
of dollars in order to get 100 accurate cores 10 bits of core space with the right brightness
in the right knits in the 4k resolution with dolby vision 100 srgb rec 709 and so much more
but nowadays you can get this quality for a fraction of the price thanks to the asus pro
art monitors i'm going to give you handy tips that you can use when you feel like you just
can't rely on your monitor anymore and you want to get professional results so how can you get
professional results with a basic monitor most monitors actually come with their own color space
and they mess up your colors quite a bit this because it's for a consumer and not for a creator
you want to have the consumer to experience for example more saturation more contrast
but when you would edit on these your videos would be over contrasted on different monitors or over
saturated on other monitors so that's not what you want i for example had three different monitors
hooked up on my setup and my colors literally look different on every single one of them
but you can solve this but only to an extent depending on your monitor's capabilities
but more on that later being able to see your colors accurately or at least neutral colors
gives you your best shot at making your video look good everywhere it allows you to see your view in
its native kind of wrong format and it allows you to see imperfections and mistakes more clearly
so what do you need to pay attention to when looking for a correct monitor the essence is
that you will want an ips panel i won't go over all the technical details here but basically the
advantages of an ips panel are faster response times wider viewing angles better core and
contrast like many other va and tn panels and outstanding core accuracy and screen consistency
so now let's say you don't have a color accurate monitor you don't intend to buy
a new one but you still want to have like the best colors you could potentially get
for your video is there anything you can really do well luckily yes there
there are is a bunch of things that you can do in order to make your video look pretty good on
a bad monitor so let's take a look at an example when you're filming use the correct white balance
by pointing your camera at a gray card like this and set that grey card to be the white balance for
your camera so this here is a gray card you point your camera like this and then you sub the white
balance this will neutralize the colors of your camera and make sure that your entire environment
has these well white balanced cores you could use one of these clork books as well
the asus monitor also has a 10-bit display unlike regular monitors only displaying 8-bit cores
which means in more technical terms that an 8-bit file works with rgb using 256 levels per channel
while 10 bit jumps it up to 1024 levels per channel vector scopes are also a good one for
making sure that your skin tones are on point if you mask around your skin tones you can see this
little line on the vector scopes and then you have this other line this line represents the correct
color for skin tone no matter what saturation or brightness your skin has every single person
on earth's skin tone should appear on this line so everyone has the exact same color it's just
a different saturation or a different brightness histograms are also very useful making sure that
your scene is exposed correctly so even if you have a professional monitor these tips are really
helpful because they allow you to get your colors correct every single time judge me but i like to
see my work and its maximum potential so we have covered cold but what about our environment people
really tend to overlook this one and i'm gonna be honest even i do not put enough importance to this
as you can see from my environment right here the colors are all over the place but i can tell you i
do not edit like this but basically our eyes lie to us all the time they are not reliable at all
you can literally find tons of optical illusions and things that appear to be different colors
because you're looking at it in different lighting conditions and that's exactly why your environment
is also very very important if you want to have the best option for you all these color grading
studios use a gray wall basically a white balance for your eyes it's like coffee that calibrates
your taste buds the gray neutralizes the color of your eyes but okay let's say you don't have
control over your environment and you want to get the best out of it anyway well you're asking a lot
aren't you you can still find a solution luckily actually asus has sent me something along with
these monitors and it's right here this allows you to calibrate your monitors according to
your room and lighting conditions this little device has actually some sensors that look at
your environment and based on your environment light it's going to change the monitor's colors
and it's going to make it look neutral to you if you can avoid a wrongly lit environment that
definitely helps i do like a neutral led indirect light coming from behind my monitor so that way i
add a little bit of depth to my own vision and it gives me less fatigue while working it's giving
some depth to your eyes which is really important as well okay great so we have covered core we
have covered environment and how we can solve all these things what about the resolution well if you
work with a full hd camera it does make sense that you're watching on a full hd monitor and
when you're recording 4k you want to edit on a 4k monitor right let me tell you something different
if you want to get the most potential out of your footage you want to be able to see the quality of
your footage in its full potential know what is a camera error and what is a monitor error error
looking at a 4k footage on a full hd monitor might seem blurry while it actually isn't
just because you're looking in a resolution that is too low for the resolution that you
have captured if you're in premiere pro it's actually probably being displayed in like 1 4
of your monitor which means it's basically being played back at regular hd which basically means
it's not showing itself in its full potential so i even like to watch my full hd footage on a 4k
monitor because even if i would make it smaller i would still see the maximum resolution that
i have recorded so yeah now you can ask another question do you really need that extra resolution
well that's going to be a personal choice i used to see my work on such crappy monitors
full hd trying to make best out of it but then once they actually showed my work
in a movie theater and i could see my my work that i was working on on such a small monitor
being viewed on such a huge display and that made me realize that if i would have been able
to see it on a bigger screen myself or on a more quality monitor myself i would have been able to
make sure that it would have been displayed better on that monitor so it all depends on where you're
going to be sharing your work if most of the people are going to be watching on their phone
well then it's going to be up to you if you think it's worth it or not i have actually worked many
many years with low budget monitors and they did the job just fine for me it's just that
since i have upgraded my monitors i do feel that i spend more time in the little details i experience
the details in a very different way everything that i see is crystal clear but looking back at
my previous projects i do see a big difference and i can now see how my colors were often imperfect
even by using all the tools i already had in premiere pro nowadays i spend more time on
grading and refining so in a way it also inspires me and motivates me to see my work so crispy
so on this monitor it's actually a big enjoyment as it's also an hdr monitor which you can use
for broadcast or for hdr creation i do see a huge difference you get a much
nicer look on your regular images as well and the reason is probably because a regular
monitor let's say it tops at 400 nits so it starts at zero and it stops at 400 nits
while this monitor starts at zero and it stops at 1200 nits which is three times more nits
so yeah these were my thoughts on why colors look inaccurate and how to solve them
as you can see it's not just one go-to answer but actually consists of several things
okay okay so i know all of you have been eagerly waiting what about the monitor that we could
actually win that's what we're here for right so well it's actually going to be even better than
that as the monitor is not the only price we're going to be giving away we are going to give away
one pro art asus 34-inch hdr curve monitor this is an ideal single monitor setup for the versatile
professionals that need it for multiple purposes such as productivity you can actually set it up to
act like two monitors side by side or you can see your entire timelines with on the entire width of
the curved monitor which is really useful while editing it has accurate colors which is great for
professional video or photo production and it's also great when you enjoy gaming on the side so
this giveaway is in collaboration with asus and creator galaxy the company that i have co-founded
and that's why we're throwing in a one-year unlimited downloads license on creatorgalaxy.com
so you're immediately good to go to create epic videos but we also have a second prize and the
second prize will get the next level editing masterclass plus one year of unlimited downloads
at creatorgalaxy.com and for the third prize one year of unlimited downloads at creatorgalaxy.com
which we've actually recently updated the complete look has changed so we're pretty proud to announce
that as well so what do you have to do in order to win your monitor so when you click the link in
the description this will take you to a gleam giveaway page here you have to upload a photo
of your current setup while editing something and no it doesn't matter what setup you have
it can totally be crazy or really really basic we just want to see how you hustle and how you edit
your videos or photos or whatever it is you do it does not have to be some kind of fancy
setup we just want to see you at work working on something creative so it cannot be a word document
or something but yeah that's completely up to you take a photo upload it on the website literally
everyone can join you will also need to answer a question that will be super easy if you have
watched this video and if you want to add extra entries to have a bigger chance of winning you
can also do that but that's obviously optional these are pretty epic prices i really can't wait
to make someone happy with this ultimate monitor unlimited downloads on our website
so you can create epic videos hassle free so click the link in the description below join the
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new videos i'll see you in the next one until then create epic videos oh oh and by the way did
you see the video where i reveal the secret behind those mysterious monoliths that were appearing all
around the globe aliens i tell you go and check it out i will put it somewhere here alright ciao