BEHIND THE SCREENS

  • A Guide to Choosing Your Next Monitor
    June 14, 2023

    A Guide to Choosing Your Next Monitor

    Once regarded as a luxury reserved for tentpole films, flagship TV shows, and big-budget commercials, dedicated on-camera and on-set monitors have become indispensable for productions of all sizes and creators at every stage of their career. If you’re shopping for a new monitor, you probably already know that it’s not a one-size-fits-all decision. Today’s monitors come in a dizzying variety of shapes, sizes, brightnesses, resolutions, screen types, contrast ratios, and integrated software platforms—a lot of information you need to unpack to make an informed investment.
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  • How the OLED 22 Offers Confidence and Saves Time On-Set
    February 21, 2023

    How the OLED 22 Offers Confidence and Saves Time On-Set

    Gina Manning is the Founder and Creative Director of GIZELLA, a branding company that focuses on the emotional impact of visual campaigns. Offering top to bottom services from creative direction and video production to marketing and social media campaigns, GIZELLA is a...

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  • Explore How the Vision 24 4K Monitor Changed the Game On-Set
    November 21, 2022

    Explore How the Vision 24 4K Monitor Changed the Game On-Set

    At SmallHD, we thrive on working with our community and getting feedback on how we can improve our production monitors. We recently sent a Vision 24 4K HDR Monitor to our friends Katharina “Kitty” Scharinger and Christian Saure, who were able to test how our field-ready monitor holds up both in the studio and on location.
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  • 5 Essential Tools to Calibrate Your Monitor
    July 7, 2022

    5 Essential Tools to Calibrate Your Monitor

    All SmallHD monitors are factory calibrated before they ship, but over time, you will need to recalibrate your monitor to ensure that the color reproduction stays on point. Here are the 5 tools you will need to recalibrate your monitor for pristine color reproduction.
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  • The Action 5: An Affordable, Entry-Level Monitor With SmallHD DNA
    June 20, 2022

    The Action 5: An Affordable, Entry-Level Monitor With SmallHD DNA

    The SmallHD Action 5 is designed as an entry-level external video monitor. The real game-changer is in the ActionOS UI/UX, which, instead of being a standalone OS restricted to entry-level brands, is a streamlined and simplified version of the most widely used, production-ready software toolset in the industry. 
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  • Our Top Oscar BTS Moments
    March 25, 2022

    Our Top Oscar BTS Moments

    Our Top Oscar BTS Moments There’s no greater pride than knowing the products you make and distribute get used to create works of art. Every Oscar season we take some time to reflect on the past year and the movies...

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  • How To Center Frame Your Shot with Crosshair
    February 28, 2022

    How To Center Frame Your Shot with Crosshair

    Crosshair Consistency Interested in adding more consistency to your framing? The key to this might be a small PageOS 4 feature that can make a huge impact. The Crosshair overlay function gives you a point of reference on the center...

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  • We stand with the people of Ukraine
    February 28, 2022

    We stand with the people of Ukraine

    Stand with us The people of Ukraine have shown great courage and perseverance. Creative Solutions has a team based in Ukraine with whom we have been working during this challenging time. They have shown us the strength and hope of...

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  • What does Monitoring in HDR mean?
    October 14, 2021

    What does Monitoring in HDR mean?

    At SmallHD, we aim to demystify the idea of HDR. This blog is for anyone who is interested in transitioning into an HDR workflow or anyone who wants to learn more about HDR technology in general. We teamed up with...

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