Setting up SmallHD monitor

Livegrade comes with support for SmallHD 4K Production Monitors. The monitors can be used as a real-time grading device by receiving looks from Livegrade as 3D LUT.

Adding a SmallHD monitor as a look device#

In order to exchange look information with Livegrade, the SmallHD monitor needs to have a working network connection with the computer where Livegrade is running on. The SmallHD monitor can be connected via Ethernet.

Please refer to the manufacturer’s documentation for setting up the monitor for live-grading in your network with a dedicated IP address.

Once you have obtained the device’s IP address, you can add the SmallHD 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 Look Devices section and select SmallHD Monitor to add the monitor to your slot.

After adding the SmallHD monitor a configuration form will appear.

Configure and connect SmallHD 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.

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