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calibrating pc & tv results?
Hi All,
I would love to hear from everyone about how they calibrate there pc to tv.For example, I have dual screens 24″ monitors. One side has alittle more contrast than the other. If I have a shot of a person with light shadows around their eyes, it looks much darker on the other screen. I try to make the results in between the two.
When I play it on my 32″ Hd TV, It looks way darker. When I play it at a friends house, It looks way light (no contrast at all). I am so confused.
The age old question keeps coming up……..How come Hollywood’s DVD’s all look good on all tvs
yet my dvds look good on only 1 TV set??What is the best way to solve this?
Thanks guys,
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Hi Lou,
You need to calibrate your monitors. That’s the only way to get consistent colours across them.
Get yourself a hardware calibrator for your computer monitors and see what a difference it makes. If your budget conscious, I’ve heard good things about the Spyder Pro series but I’ll wait for other voices to chime in there.
You also can’t trust that those colours on your computer screen will look exactly the same on a broadcast monitor, let alone an uncalibrated HD LCD. The fact it looks dark on your screen and light on your friends is testament to that. Any colour grading should be done on a good, calibrated monitor. That way you know you’ve done the best you can before it goes into the big, wide world.
There’s a big section in the After Effects help about Color Management. It will take a few readings to absorb it properly.
Cheers,
BenI can’t remember a time where I’ve been in an electronics store where two TVs have matched up, even playing lovely Hollywood Blu-rays. :o) They just don’t bother to calibrate them.
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for the quick response,
Yeah it’s so fustrating.
I gave a copy to a friend at NYU, and he said “why didn’t you color correct it?” I said what?, it looks beautiful on my tv.
He said it looks like sh_t here.
I’m pull all my hair out! Of course when I said to him…it must be your tv, he said, Why does all of my DVD rentals look good?
I wanted to put my hand thru the phone and grab him by the neck. (LOL)
Thanks again,
Lou -
this post will help you get started.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/953248And I can tell you this. My friend bought a $5,000 50′ HD LCD and used $15,000 equipment 2 hours to calibrate every single pixel so that Planet Earth Blueray looks fantastic. And it does, but some tv commercials look super orange and sickly looking. Guess what? The better you calibrate, the worse things can look.
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HI Chris,
Yes around here, I’m a 3d artist, compositer, Editor, paint Dept.,
Visual effects artist and now…. color corrector & DVD Burner.
I get yelled at when I don’t have the answers. I think I am going to sneak into everyones home and adjust their tv set to look like my monitor.
Basically color..is NOT the problem, it’s shadow & Highlights.
Some shots are darker aound the eyes where shadows from hair are.
On the monitor, everything looks perfect.
What about Vector Scopes and stuff like that? Would that help?Thanks,
lou
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