Monitoring RED in Davinci

[Sebastian Cepeda]

Hi Guys,

When I try to take a look at the footage in 4K in my monitor (Sony BVM-L2300) I only got a tinny bit of the image, it gets zoomed in even though i tell davinci to output the image as 1080p.
the problem is if i would like to grade with the whole 4k image i can only see a bit of the image on my grading monitor, the same happens if i say it is only 2k.
But if i work with 1080p (timeline) i have the whole image, but of course not 4k anymore. Im not saying i want to grade everything at 4K but im having a feature film soon shot in 4K that will be delivered to cinemas and i need to grade at least in 2K but the image is still croped in.

Does anyone have an idea why this happens?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sebastian

[jake blackstone]

You'll get better and faster answer to your question here:
http://forums.creativecow.net/davinci

[Tom.Wong]

you don't have a 2k monitor, so it's always gonna do that, set your timeline to 1080p, grade, than set it to 2k on output.

[Sebastian Cepeda]

That's what i was doing so far, so that is indeed the best alternative? Shot 4K, grade in 1080p and output in 2K? no change at all in the colors when changing?

[Tom.Wong]

nope, luminance and color values are based off the original r3d, if ur monitor is calibrated properly to your delivery, it will look the same. I've outputted both 1080p and at full resolution 4k quicktimes with no shifts in color or luminance.

[Sebastian Cepeda]

Yes my monitor is properly calibrated, ok thats good to hear!! thanks a lot!