• DaVinci Resolve

  Calibrated Environment to Resolve

  Posted by Thiery Peleias on November 6, 2018 at 2:47 am

  Hi, how are you? I would ask for help with calibrated environment.

  I did everything I could. 5 months, testing, reading, seeing recommendations, tutorials and etc … and I can not get a good result from a calibrated environment for Resolve.
  There must be some mystery known only to professionals and I assume my total lack of understanding.

  Is it possible, for mere mortals, that the Viewer display the same result in the output?

  ❤Equip
  – Asus PA249Q Monitor
  – HDMI from Gtx1060
  – Color Munki Display
  – Material with EOSHD C-LOG and Cinestyle.

  I try many options, put the basic;
  Asus PA249Q with Gamma 2.2, calibrate with Displaycal in Rec709 / 1889 D65.
  In Resolve I have tried several options of color space, color space transform, data levels video or full.

  But Resolve Viewer always shows different from rendering on output. Completely different contrast and saturation.

  I check the result on mobile phone and other monitors and I have now discovered Media Player Classic Home Cinema (with rendering color management enable) that shows me very accurate results of what I see on other non-calibrated monitors.

  [b]Does anyone have the workflow of how to make a calibrated environment?[/b]

  I’ll be honest, I’m very discouraged ???????????? …

  Thank you very much.

  Thiery Peleias replied 7 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Chris Wright

  November 6, 2018 at 4:24 am

  https://www.lightillusion.com/error.html

  BT1886 can be a problem on displays with lifted blacks, due to the way it raises gamma in the shadow region. This causes the shadows to become washed-out, which in turn will cause the colourist to attempt to grade the shadows darker. When the graded footage is then viewed on a display with a standard power law gamma, or a display with a lower black and calibrated to BT1886, the shadows will appear crushed.
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  Marc Wielage

  November 6, 2018 at 7:16 am

  I’d say to start off, don’t try using a computer monitor like an Asus. It’s not good enough for grading.

  There are modest-priced consumer displays like the LG OLEDs (particularly the C8/E8) series that can calibrate to Rec709 pretty well. Calman and Light Illusion both have great systems for monitor calibration, but they’re not cheap.

  Alexis Van Hurkman covers what goes into a professional color grading room in his book Color Correction Handbook. Placing low-level 6500° lighting behind the monitor and 18% neutral gray walls is also helpful. The SMPTE recommended practice document RP166-1995 covers this in detail. I’ve got some documents on HDR and Rec709 up at this link:

  https://spaces.hightail.com/space/YRh1w7BlPO
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  Thiery Peleias

  November 6, 2018 at 2:44 pm

  Thank you very much.
  I’m reading the references to be able to have any questions.
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  Thiery Peleias

  November 9, 2018 at 4:45 am

  I’m sorry for my super ignorance. But I can not understand how the MPC-HC (with color managment actived and the calibrated color profile in windows 10) can show me a very close result, but the Resolve Display can not.

  Image of a scene with low illumination. Resolve’s display is very different, desaturated and shadows will appear crushed.

  
  ????????????
  Am I not doing something wrong? Is not there something right to do?

  (I’ve read the material from https://www.lightillusion, and I’ve seen that colormunki does not work with their applications, so I have to see another palatative solution)

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