color correction on an apple 23″ cinema display

[Kevin Monahan]

No, you need a CRT to do color correction with any accuracy. You can use a Black Magic HD Link hooked up to it to do the job though, from what I understand.

As a stock monitor, no, you cannot trust it though.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Graeme Nattress]

It’s not so much the monitor you can’t trust, but the fact that FCP mucks around so much with the image before it gets to the monitor. When you use the 23″ via the HDLink, FCP thinks it’s sending video to a deck over SDI, so the image goes the same route it would going to a “real”monitor, and the HDLink handles the gamma stuff properly, making the image look very accurate and much nicer than the monitor hooked direct to the computer.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Walter Biscardi]

My favorite monitor for color correction is the Sony PVM20L5/1. They won’t be around much longer as all CRT’s are going away, but for price and performance, you can’t beat this monitor. Last I looked they were around $2,800.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

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[Gary Adcock]

while the SDI to DVI-D converters and digital cinema desktop are great things to have EVEN apple say that you cannot do critical color correction on any apple display

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93797

Although this setup works for any video format, it can be particularly useful when editing high definition video that would otherwise require a fairly expensive HD monitor. Progressive video formats such as 720p are well suited for monitoring on a computer display. If you are doing critical online editing or color correction, you may still want to use an external CRT video monitor, especially when your final output is interlaced broadcast video.

gary adcock

Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Mrvideo]

As it is , CRT monitors are not going to be used in HD televisions or projectors that can emit 1920×1280 images. If those projection systems are going to misrepresent the actual colors of the images, what then can we do to correct them CORRECTLY when the material will never touch a CRT?

Panasonic is already selling a very expensive LCD based “production” monitor?

[R. Hewitt]

Biggest problem right now is the difference in gamma between a CRT and and LCD panel. Take a look at any LCD TV and you’ll see crushed blacks (well dark blue – LCDs don’t do black) and burnt out highlights. Then you have the colour to deal with.

Sony are producing ‘broadcast/professional’ grade LCD monitoring panels, which will eventually start to replace CRTs.

Sony Europe. Checkout the Products/Broadcast & Professional/Production Monitors/LCD.