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Calibrating color monitors
I have two monitors purchased at the same time-same manufacturer and models.
I cannot get these two monitors to match using any combination of settings.
It seems if I can’t manually adjust them to match then a monitor calibration deveice won’t
be any help.
Mu thought is at this point that one monitor is defective.Any thoughts?
Thanks
Larry
LSW
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2 Replies
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I’ve run into the exact same issue and eventually gave up trying to get them to match 🙁
My thinking was that, since I’m going to video anyway, a properly calibrated NTSC monitor is my only concern.
If you’re worried about calibration for printing or web purposes, then pick one monitor to set up properly and use it as your reference. -
Assuming you’re talking about the preview’ing monitors that “connect” to Vegas…
A monitor calibration device may be able to help you adjust things more optimally inasmuch numbers are a little easier to adjust than eyeballing small tweaks.
But it’s a profiler that might help them look much more alike (after doing calibration first of course).I asked a question about the algorithm I thought of doing as a comment in another thread, got no comments, but it seemed solid at least theoretically. At least when the monitor is attached to a computer as an active screen (rather than a firewire attached unit).
A Video monitor connected to a video-card with suitable video out can be used as a computer screen (in Window XP anyway). On that, calibrator/profiler units like the Monaco one I use (almost mandatory for Photoshop sorts of use on a LCD screen) would calibrate it as well as profile it producing a custom ICC/ICM profile. Somewhere in Vegas is a place where the ICC/ICM profile can be set to the one one creates (I’ve run across it somewhere, don’t recall where, and also seen a writeup somewhere saying that Vegas supports using it). It’s that profile that “finishes” the job in getting the screen to look very close to perfect. Or at least that how it works for the main screen for photo work.
The “Pro” version of Monaco’s software (which I got as a “free” promotional bonus upgrade during a “sale”) also has facility for having multiple monitors match (intended for commercial houses where having all the monitors in the place match is perhaps more important than they being correct).
Anyway, still haven’t tried it. My work is of a quality level (for video) where those sorts of errors wouldn’t be noticed due to the mess ups elsewhere. 🙂
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