1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,319
could apple have single-handedly disrupted an entire industry with the

2
00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:11,759
pro-display xdr cause here's the thing to mere mortals like you or me five

3
00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:15,280
thousand dollars for a monitor might seem like madness

4
00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:20,960
but compared to the professional-grade displays that apple has directly in

5
00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,840
their sites here it's a steal of a deal

6
00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,080
so let's experience it together and see for

7
00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,679
ourselves but first we need to experience this

8
00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,920
segway ruggable rugs are spill and stain resistant and machine washable and

9
00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:38,320
they'll stay in place with their non-slip pads use code minus 15 to get

10
00:00:36,239 --> 00:00:45,269
15 off your order and free shipping at the link below

11
00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:54,160
starting on the outside the pro display xdr's box is robustly built and like its

12
00:00:52,559 --> 00:00:57,600
partner in crime the mac pro has a fabric carrying handle that makes the

13
00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:02,719
whole thing feel decidedly sturdy and premium and that's a good thing because at five

14
00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,560
thousand dollars this thing ain't cheap once you open it up you're greeted by a

15
00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:10,000
power cable a Thunderbolt cable and a little note saying that you should be

16
00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:14,000
thankful that you even got that i'm just kidding about the last bit but it is

17
00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:18,080
true apple stopped their guns in spite of the criticism they faced and included

18
00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:22,240
no mounting hardware whatsoever in the box let's look at the sold separately

19
00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:26,880
mounting hardware the 200 vase amount adapter simply slots into place twist

20
00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:31,439
the lock clockwise to secure it and then you mount it like any normal vasa

21
00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:35,439
display done i can actually see why apple wanted to do their own mount for

22
00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:39,680
this because it is seriously easy to use and it's rock solid if you want to roll

23
00:01:37,759 --> 00:01:43,280
your own monitor ARM we've actually got affiliate links for a couple of

24
00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:48,399
recommended ones down below the bottom line here is that while it annoys me

25
00:01:45,759 --> 00:01:52,640
that apple doesn't include anything i can also respect that they didn't want

26
00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:57,520
to throw in pricey accessories that won't be used and given that they are

27
00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:01,840
going up against displays that cost tens of thousands of dollars another 300

28
00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:06,719
bucks isn't going to be a difference maker for a pro who wants a top-tier

29
00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:10,560
display with great ergonomics then there's also the pro stand option for a

30
00:02:08,959 --> 00:02:15,520
thousand dollars and the cold hard truth here is that this is a product for

31
00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:19,599
sucker wannabes who buy pro things to flex on their buddies i mean most of the

32
00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:24,800
professionals i know are not into less functionality for more money and while

33
00:02:22,239 --> 00:02:28,959
apple's claims of weightless adjustment and stability

34
00:02:26,319 --> 00:02:33,120
basically hold up i suspect that most real-world deployments of this display

35
00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,680
are going to use the vase adapter and a proper monitor ARM which is probably why

36
00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:42,400
apple opted to make this stand available separately at a luxury item price rather

37
00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:46,959
than just put it in the box but let's take a closer look at it

38
00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,800
anyway since i'm stuck with one now adjustments can be made with a single

39
00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:54,319
finger if you're a designer who's sick of moving around your imac to show your

40
00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:57,920
work to curious observers by the way that design lloyd's working on is

41
00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:02,159
available on lttstore.com but unfortunately there are a few problems

42
00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:06,080
with this first there's no horizontal adjustment available whatsoever so

43
00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:10,239
tilting the display left or right is going to require you to move the entire

44
00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:14,640
stand which can be particularly annoying with a multi-monitor setup especially if

45
00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:19,519
you need to angle one of them second the height adjust is not on a

46
00:03:16,959 --> 00:03:23,920
slider it's on a lever instead and this might seem like a non-issue but as you

47
00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:26,959
adjust the display up and down you're also moving it back and forth which

48
00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:31,360
means you might need to fiddle with how it sits on your desk it's just not that

49
00:03:28,959 --> 00:03:35,360
elegant now some people here didn't like the amount of play in the pivot

50
00:03:32,959 --> 00:03:40,000
mechanism but i didn't mind it you never know when your desk is going to be

51
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,599
not quite level and i really appreciated the simple latch mechanism smooth

52
00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,760
rotation of the display and the satisfying click when it goes into place

53
00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:51,280
so that's all fine and good but what's it like to actually use

54
00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:56,400
on paper out of this world it's factory

55
00:03:53,440 --> 00:04:00,040
calibrated and apple is one manufacturer i actually trust to do a bang-up job of

56
00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:05,760
this it's got 576 local dimming zones and it's got

57
00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:09,439
reference modes for HDR print

58
00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:13,840
digital cinema and more it boasts incredibly deep blacks with advertised

59
00:04:11,439 --> 00:04:17,199
sustained brightness of 000 nits and peak brightness of 1600 nits and in

60
00:04:16,239 --> 00:04:20,959
person honestly it just kind of looks stunning

61
00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,639
the only thing that i felt i needed to change out of the box was true tones

62
00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,639
this is an apple feature that changes the on-screen colors according to

63
00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,000
ambient light and i i get having it supported

64
00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:36,639
and thankfully it is disabled in any of the reference profiles but i find it

65
00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:40,639
obnoxious enough on a phone and even for casual computer use i would prefer not

66
00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:45,199
to have the distraction fortunately it's easy enough to turn

67
00:04:42,479 --> 00:04:49,919
that off and change any reference modes that you want via the display applet in

68
00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:54,240
system preferences but that is going to be a problem

69
00:04:51,360 --> 00:05:00,160
the only way to control this monitor is through apple's system preferences

70
00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:02,720
there are no buttons or osd whatsoever

71
00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:06,560
so unlike the apple cinema displays of yesteryear

72
00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:11,280
on Windows your mileage with this bad boy will vary considerably

73
00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:16,000
now a mac running bootcamp does allow you to control the display with all the

74
00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:19,600
features you'd expect as in macOS but

75
00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:24,400
that little widget is not available for pc scrubs like us what's more the pro

76
00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:28,880
display xdr's Thunderbolt link makes use of apple's custom timing controller that

77
00:05:26,479 --> 00:05:33,199
utilizes two simultaneous DisplayPort links on a single type-c cable that's

78
00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:39,520
how they're achieving that astonishing 6k resolution so just like with lg's

79
00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,199
ultrafine 5k yeah you might be able to

80
00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:44,720
get it to display a picture with a Thunderbolt equipped pc by jumping

81
00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:49,840
through some hoops but good luck running full res

82
00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:55,600
using any of the selling points like all the pre-calibrated mode switching and

83
00:05:53,199 --> 00:06:00,320
i mean even adjusting the backlight so what that means for a pc shop like us is

84
00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,800
that right out of the gate even though they could have made it work apple has

85
00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,240
eliminated the option of upgrading all of our editing workstations to pro

86
00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,360
display xdrs so then make sure you guys get

87
00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:15,840
subscribed because we've actually worked out a deal to drop in on a local

88
00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:20,880
production studio with mac workstations to see what they think of it for today

89
00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:25,280
though we do have editors of our own and we do have a mac pro so let's see what

90
00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:31,039
they think so as soon as i opened final cut and it

91
00:06:29,039 --> 00:06:35,120
loaded all the HDR stuff i was like i'll never be satisfied with

92
00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,919
anything else ever again because this is the first time that i've

93
00:06:36,479 --> 00:06:43,280
seen like real HDR uh on any system the Windows

94
00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:48,560
implementation of it is total crap um so i feel jealous

95
00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:52,400
on this monitor i did not notice any bad fringing around stuff it looked great

96
00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:57,120
the only thing that really does annoy me about it is off-axis

97
00:06:54,639 --> 00:07:01,360
on the darker colors it does change brightness quite a lot but overall it's

98
00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:05,680
really nice no i don't think the color accuracy was

99
00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:11,520
sacrificed to get the HDR working i mean it's they built it for HDR if Linus

100
00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,039
media group had to start doing HDR

101
00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:17,199
i mean i guess we already have this monitor so we might as well use it

102
00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:21,599
but i just i really don't want to have to use macintosh i don't know the system

103
00:07:19,039 --> 00:07:24,880
very well anymore i don't wanna so there are a couple of things to note

104
00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:30,639
that we didn't originally plan for in this script it doesn't really like to

105
00:07:27,919 --> 00:07:35,039
run on a pc the other side of the coin is in macOS it's

106
00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:39,599
pretty much the only way to get HDR on your machine

107
00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,400
now there are external boxes aja makes

108
00:07:39,599 --> 00:07:46,240
one but for whatever reason apple's got it locked down and

109
00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:50,479
that's no good i've seen a couple of pictures showing that

110
00:07:47,919 --> 00:07:56,479
compared to the higher end displays it's really bad for like halos and rings

111
00:07:53,680 --> 00:08:00,720
around bright objects but that's only really how it looks on camera to my eye

112
00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:05,520
and to taran's eye and to most other people it's kind of difficult to notice in the

113
00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:10,319
HDR proofing mode honestly i can see it being a problem in

114
00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:15,440
like pin light types of situations that being said the amount of bloom is

115
00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:20,000
very low objectively there are some problems with

116
00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:24,720
the pro display xdr first and foremost is uniformity while it's reasonable most

117
00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:28,400
of the time brightness does taper off pretty noticeably around the edges

118
00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,440
giving it kind of an artificial vignette effect that's especially visible with

119
00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:36,959
solid colors more disappointingly on a 25 gray tone

120
00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:41,919
the panel displays a worrying amount of texture on what should just be a solid

121
00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:46,320
color and that's without the fancy glare reduction coating we opted to leave that

122
00:08:43,599 --> 00:08:49,680
off so large vertical bars mean that in spite of the panel's deep blacks it'll

123
00:08:48,399 --> 00:08:56,080
definitely be a little bit more difficult for artists and colorists to do their jobs on darker images

124
00:08:53,839 --> 00:09:00,399
interestingly this test also shows a pretty big variation in viewing angle on

125
00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:06,720
these gray tones in spite of apple's claims of super wide viewing angle

126
00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,640
i mean with that said this 25 gray is a

127
00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:12,080
worst case scenario for the display and most of the time these things aren't

128
00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,760
noticeable but it is there

129
00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:20,080
thankfully as brightness drops all of these effects become less visible and

130
00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:24,160
the built-in reference modes all dim the screen accordingly anyway and they do a

131
00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:29,040
lot more from what we can tell the reference modes do a damn fine job of

132
00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:32,800
maintaining color accuracy it's worth mentioning that getting accurate results

133
00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:36,880
out of this thing with a colorimeter or a spectrophotometer is a bit of a chore

134
00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,560
right now but from what we've been able to glean with the tools we have it's

135
00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:45,760
safe to say that it's as accurate as they say it is with delta ease reliably

136
00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:49,760
below one in the reference modes now you do lose access to brightness controls

137
00:09:47,839 --> 00:09:53,920
while running in these modes and the pro display xdr's standard modes are

138
00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:57,680
definitely going to be better for content consumption even if they

139
00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:02,720
sacrifice some balls to the wall's accuracy but guys when you flip this

140
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:06,000
thing into i'm creating now ladies and gentlemen look at me i'm an artist

141
00:10:04,959 --> 00:10:11,040
mode you can expect an accurate pro level

142
00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:14,800
experience so the pro display xtr seems like it lives up to its promises

143
00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:21,200
and i mean when the competition's price tag has five digits a four digit one

144
00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:23,680
like this looks pretty darn good but

145
00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:29,360
apple also isn't alone here trying to disrupt that industry ASUS's pro art

146
00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:34,959
pa-32ucx costs a thousand dollars less and not only comes with a stand to make

147
00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:37,760
that 1200 to 2 000 less but it has adobe

148
00:10:34,959 --> 00:10:41,600
RGB support instead of apple's p3d50 for print work and it has double the number

149
00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:45,839
of local dimming zones thanks to its mini led backlight it's only really

150
00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:50,320
missing the pro display xdr's impressive peak brightness and 6k resolution

151
00:10:48,959 --> 00:10:57,279
so let us know in the comments below if you want us to get ASUS to send one of those over so we can compare this

152
00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,480
against the pc world's pro display xdr

153
00:10:57,279 --> 00:11:02,880
for today all that's left to say though is

154
00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:08,160
it's a flawed gem but the flaws are pretty minor and it's

155
00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:12,240
definitely still a gem so good job apple this product makes

156
00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:16,000
professional grade HDR mastering more accessible to small and mid-sized

157
00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:19,839
studios everywhere and that's a great thing well

158
00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:23,200
as long as they're running macOS you know what else is accessible freshbooks

159
00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:27,360
is cloud accounting solution with freshbooks you can work anywhere thanks

160
00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:30,880
to their mobile app freshbooks allows you to create professional looking

161
00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:34,720
invoices on the go snap pictures of your receipts so that you don't lose track of

162
00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,399
them stay on top of important conversations see when your client has

163
00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:42,640
viewed their invoice or when an invoice has become overdue and all kinds of good

164
00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:46,079
things so you can spend more time running your business instead of more

165
00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,760
time doing paperwork for your business so start a 30 day free trial at

166
00:11:47,519 --> 00:11:52,560
freshbooks.com forward slash tech tips we're going to have that linked below

167
00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:59,360
thanks for watching if you guys are looking for something else to check out maybe flip on our mac vs pc editing

168
00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:04,160
face-off between i justine and our very own taryn van heemert i'll see you guys

169
00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,160
over there