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Are you suppose to calibrate your LCD monitors?
This may be a little off topic but I’m solely using LCD monitors these days and would like some advice on how to calibrate them for -video- use. PAL in my case.
Some photographer friends of mine use calibration devices like the Spyder2 and create an ICC monitor profile for use in Photoshop.
The question I have is, does the same calibration procedure apply for use in motion graphics/video/television? i.e., is the Sypder2 calibration method just for photography/print and not suitable for our purpose?
Any help appreciated.
-Frankie
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All monitors need some tweaking for correct color balance.
One problem with LCD monitors is the luma doesn’t really make it to the dark end of the curve.
This is very deceiving for trying to adjust your pedestal.Seems that (if you are designing for TV), you should have a TV (CRT!) reference so you can adjust for the interlace artifacts,
as well as being able to see the entire dynamic range.MIMS/LOCOMOTION
PS – I have some kind of McGrath color evaluation system that (I try to pretend) works really great.
It does what it does I guess… but we have several TV’s that we make our final color and curve adjustments on.
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