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Color Correct Monitor
Im making my first pass at coloring. things look pretty good. i have an apple cinema display for my main work monitor, and i have the full picture viewing on a compaq crt. they both have noticable differences. should i keep referencing the crt as as the best monitor?
thanks,
j
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Only if the Compaq isn’t a computer monitor…which I doubt. You cannot use a computer monitor to judge the quality of your footage. You need a really good TV (on the low end) or an NTSC monitor calibrated to bars.
If you are working with HD, then with the Matrox MXO you can get the Apple display to show true broadcast colors. But ONLY with the MXO. ON it’s own it isn’t good for this. No computer monitor is.
Shane
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thanks, shane. youre correct. it is a computer monitor. makes sense use a callibrated monitor. thats a bit out of my price range though. i am following the waveform and vectorscope readings, and it seems to be making alot of difference – even if i am only tweeking. we got a pretty good result straight from the camera. do you think these small tweeks following the vector scope to make decisions is not wise?
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Following the scopes will keep you within legal broadcast limits, but will really not show you what your footage will really look like.
But, up to you.
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “the Matrox MXO you can get the Apple display to show true broadcast colors. But ONLY with the MXO.”
How is that possible when all cold cathode lcd’s have an 8-bit gamut and narrow contrast?
For a time I used a Dell 24″ LCD with a multibridge and I could get it pretty close (about 70% at best with a custom lut), but never spot on.
How can this be done without at least an LED backlit display?
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[Borjis] “How is that possible when all cold cathode lcd’s have an 8-bit gamut and narrow contrast?
How can this be done without at least an LED backlit display?”
You’ll have to e-mail Matrox for the exact technical reasons for how this works, for I am not an engineer. I just know that with Montior calibrators I can get my whites to close to 6500K, and that the MXO adjusts the image the reaches the ACD into a proper LUT. I looked at it compared to my HD CRT and it was VERY close.
Shane
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