Roundabout Entertainment, based in Burbank, California, continues to remain on the cutting edge of post production with its extended use of the Sony BVM-X300. Roundabout Entertainment is a full-service post-production facility that works with clients like Amazon, Fox and Paramount on projects ranging from blockbusters to OTT programming and indie flicks. In this realm, HDR and 4K are the expectation, so the team at Roundabout needs to use the best tools to provide the high quality work and standards their customers have come to expect.
The main features of the Sony BVM-X300 include:
| High Dynamic Range Mode | In addition to the intrinsic high-contrast performance of the TRIMASTER EL OLED panel, this monitor provides High Dynamic Range mode. This offers never-seen-before image reproduction – the black is black, and peak brightness can be reproduced more realistically with colors that are typically saturated in a conventional standard dynamic range. This mode can brilliantly express sparkling town lights and stars in the night sky. |
| Wide Color Gamut Display | The emission layers in the new 4K panel as well as new layering design give the BVM X300 the ability to display ITU-R BT709 and DCI-P3 colorgamuts more accurately than any previous Sony Trimaster display. In addition, the new BVM X300 can display 80% of the new ITU-R BT2020 color gamut. |
| 3G-SDI Quad-link up to 4096 x 2160/48p 50p 60p, YCbCr 4:2:2 or RGB 4:4:4 10-bit & 12 bit | This master monitor supports both 2 Sample Interleave (2SI) and Square Division signals. It also supports HD signals including 3G-SDI single link for 1920 x 1080/50p 60p, YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit, and 3G-SDI dual link for 1920 x1080/50p 60p, 4:4:4 12/10-bit.. |
For Michael Smolin, Senior Colorist at Roundabout, the X300 has been exactly what their team has been looking for as he said that, “For my fellow colorists and colleagues in quality control, the tools that allow us to stay up to date on the latest technology include Sony’s flagship BVM-X300 master monitor. Roundabout uses Sony’s BVM-X300 to QC all of our Amazon deliverables, in addition to use on restoration projects and for finishing features. As HDR has become an integral part of our workflow, we have had to adopt different standards which require us to produce new deliverables, in a new color space. Our clients like the aesthetic HDR offers – its depth and brighter, more vivid colors. The darker blacks, whiter whites, deeper shadows and enhanced detail is rapidly becoming an attractive feature.”
For Smolin, being able to use the X300 allows Roundabout the freedom to integrate other Sony technology into their post production processes. They currently use the X300 in a stand alone fashion but they know that it can be integrated with the Sony PVM-X550 55-inch 4K OLED client monitors already in use in their post production facility for grading in 709.
Smolin commented that, “With the Sony BVM-X300 monitor, we finally have something that supports color-critical work through a combination of the latest technologies and provides a number of beneficial features at a reasonable price point. As we navigate this new terrain, we appreciate the flexibility the BVM-X300 offers us in all of these instances. Regardless of the client’s requirements, we know the X300 can meet them. The monitor does 4K. It does 2K. It does HD. It does P3, XYZ and 709. It covers all the color spaces and it is “no LUT,” so it gets really black. That’s something you don’t get from a plasma or LCD monitor. The true blacks produced by the X300 are essential for color-critical grading. Most facilities use plasmas for grading, but unless you are using them in dynamic mode, you cannot get the brightness required for 709 grading.”
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