Hi Michael,
If your budget permits -- and it seems it does since you were considering the Apple XDR monitor -- get a Flanders instead. I spent months and months (more like a year) looking into alternatives but in the end I bit the bullet and purchased a DM240. Don't regret it.
Hey Ryan,
Thanks for the feedback. I found a used one online and was debating pulling the trigger on buying it. Is the CM series still supported by Flanders?
Hi,
Is anyone using an FSI CM171 as a reference monitor for grading? Your thoughts on it would be appreciated (I am looking to pick up a used one as a budget monitor).
Fusion may seem daunting to learn at first but once you wrap your head around nodes (especially if you are coming from AE, like i did), everything falls into place. Once you get that 'a-ha' moment, you'll never look back.
Second what Anton said. Always work in linear when compositing. In AE, under Project Settings > Color, check the Linearize Working Space box to work in linear.
There are Fusion tutorials that explain spill suppression (using that max value of two channels to suppress the third). Search Simon Ubsdell. He's a Fusion instructor who goes into detail about that.