Pro grade production monitor: OSEE Mega 22S
· Camera gear · 4:05
A production monitor for video production is more than just an HDMI TV or computer monitor. Production monitors have some additional tools, build quality made for portability and durability, and color accuracy. The OSEE Mega 22S also has the ability to color calibrate without an additional computer, just an XRite i1Display probe. The image is bright with a max of 1500 nits so you can view the image in just about every situation. Let’s take a Quick Look at the Mega 22S which I’ve been using for the last 6 weeks for my studio, location, and livestream sessions.
Some of my other studio gear:
Gear used or mentioned
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- OSEE Mega 22S production monitor — Amazon
- Calibrite Display Pro HL (powered by X-Rite) probe to calibrate your monitor — Amazon
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre audio recorder — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKH50 microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Impact Turtle-Base C-Stands — B&H, Amazon
- Aputure LS 600x Pro Bicolor LED Light — Aputure, B&H, Amazon
- Aputure Light Dome III Softbox — Aputure, B&H
- Amaran 300c RGBWW Single-Point LED Light
- Amaran Spotlight SE — Aputure, B&H, Amazon
- Rosco Prismatic Glass Gobo in Cool Lavender — B&H
- Canon C70 Cinema Camera — B&H
- Canon RF 24-70 f/2.8 lens — B&H, Amazon
- Panasonic GH5 camera — B&H, Amazon
- Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 II lens — B&H, Amazon
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A quick look at the OC Mega22S, a production monitor for checking exposure, focus, and framing on set or during a livestream. It’s a 21.5-inch, 10-bit, 1920x1080 panel in a metal case with a metal carrying handle; the front bezel, buttons, and feet are plastic, but overall build feels solid for the price. It includes the full suite of production tools you’d expect — waveforms, false color, zebras, and peaking.
It can run on AC power or via a Gold-mount or V-mount cine battery plate (both included) for field use. The kit includes a C-stand adapter, cheese plate, cine battery plate, sun hood, and custom foam insert sized for a Pelican 1600 case (you supply the case). It self-calibrates in about two minutes using an i1 Display Pro probe, making it suitable for color-critical work, and reaches up to 1500 nits of brightness for outdoor use (helped further by the sun hood). Connectivity includes two 3G-SDI in/out and one HDMI 1.4 input, a USB port for loading custom LUTs, plus built-in LUTs that map common camera log formats to a normal Rec.709 look.
Priced at $1,339 USD. For context, my previous Flanders Scientific 24-inch production monitor cost over $3,500 five to six years ago and doesn’t even have HDMI (SDI and DisplayPort only) — this is a much more affordable true production monitor with proper calibration, color accuracy, and rugged build compared to a cheap consumer HDMI display.
The one real con: it’s an HD panel, capped at 3G-SDI and up to 4K30 via HDMI, so practically you can’t display above 50fps via HDMI or 60fps via SDI — if high frame rate monitoring matters to you, this isn’t the right monitor. My take: I use it for all my studio and livestream sessions, and if I were buying again today, I’d pick the OC Mega22S over the Flanders Scientific to save the money — it covers everything I need as a production/color-grading monitor for most commercial production work. Get out there, make some great videos. Talk to you soon.