Setting up FSI DM monitor

Livegrade comes with support for the Flanders Scientific FSI DM monitors. With these features you can send looks as 3D LUT to be applied on the image in the monitor by using a network connection.

This article is representatively tailored to the Flanders Scientific DM 250. A list of all the FSI DM monitors supported can be found in the Knowledge Base article All Supported Devices in Livegrade.

Adding an FSI DM monitor as a grading device#

In order to exchange look information with Livegrade, the FSI DM monitor needs to have a working network connection with the computer where Livegrade is running on. Once the network connection has been established, you can check the IP address of the monitor.

In order to find the monitor’s IP address:

• Go to the Main Menu -> System Status -> IP address
• Note the IP address. We will need it later in Livegrade

Finding the monitor’s IP address

Once you have obtained the device’s IP address, you can add the FSI DM monitor to any input slot using the slot manager.

Open the slot manager

• by clicking on the Slot Manager symbol in the toolbar or
• via the menu: Livegrade > [Slot Manager…]

In the slot manager, click on the input you want to add the device to.

Within an input click on + Add Device in the Grading Devices section and select FSI DM Monitor to add the monitor to your slot.

After adding the FSI DM monitor a configuration form will appear.

Configure and connect FSI DM monitor#

• Host: enter the device’s IP address
• Look Update: Choose how to update the look on the device.
  • Interactive
    • Adjustments of the look will be sent immediately to the device.
  • Manual Upload
    • Adjustments of the look will be sent on “Upload Look” actions. These actions are available as menu items (Slots > [Upload Look to Device(s)] menu), Toolbar button, Stream Deck and Tangent action
• Pipeline: choose whether the HDR or SDR pipeline should be sent to the LUT box
  • Note: this option is only available if “Use 2nd Pipeline” is activated in Livegrade’s grading settings
• Frame grab: activate Continuously refresh frame grab to get automatically frame grabs from the device in the set interval
  • Note: a frame grab will only be sent to Livegrade if the frame grab is chosen in at least one slot as image source

Finally, click on Connect to add the device to the slot. After that the current look of the corresponding input slot will always be sent to the grading device as long as the input slot is in Live mode.

In order to change the configuration of the device

• disconnect the device via pressing the Disconnect button
• change the configuration and
• press Connect to connect to the device again