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color difference on preview and reference monitor!?
Hi there 🙂
I have setuped a small grading suite the main monitor is an HP LP3065 and my reference monitor is an Eizo FS2331 feeded through hdmi out of an blackmagic intensity. (the main monitor is calibrated with x-rite Eye One Display Pro and the eizo with colorbars)here is the question:
when i import some 5D MK II h264 clips into Resolve and grade them i get on the main monitor in the preview windows an image that is much darker and more saturated than on the FS2331. i grade and trust the image on the FS2331 🙂
when i export as an H264 mov and play the clip via quicktime player it looks just like on my FS2331 but when played back with VLC it looks like crap
so it it normal that the image on the main Monitors preview window is “wrong”
who to trust 🙂
cheers janosch
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[janosch simon] “the main monitor is calibrated with x-rite Eye One Display Pro and the eizo with colorbars”
Colorbars does not a calibration make. And the GUI screen is not an adequate way of judging an image. It’s certainly not intended for that purpose.
[janosch simon] “who to trust :-)”
I’m very sorry to say in your case it sounds like you can’t trust either screen. I would encourage you to have your Eizo professionally calibrated. Not with colorbars, but with a proper meter and test-patterns and the whole works, so that you’ll then be able to truly trust it as a monitor. And then grade to that, and not the GUI picture, please.Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author
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hey juan 🙂 thx for your honest replay 🙂
so my eizo is the one after proper calibration to trust 🙂
another question is my old blackmagic intensity the one with one hdmi in and one out
can i mess up the settings?
an lastly the difference between quicktime and vlc?so many questions 😀
cheers and thx
janosch -
oh man i think i found the problem :-/
when i import h264 clips directly from the card (5D Mk II footage) they have this color shift i downloaded the pro res clips from blackmagic the alex footage and its spot on
and i was happy that i dont need to transcode anymore 🙁
cheers janosch
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[Juan Salvo] “I’m very sorry to say in your case it sounds like you can’t trust either screen. I would encourage you to have your Eizo professionally calibrated. Not with colorbars, but with a proper meter and test-patterns and the whole works, so that you’ll then be able to truly trust it as a monitor. And then grade to that, and not the GUI picture, please.
Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author”
seems im still confused 😀 dont get the result like i want 🙁
what do you mean by professionaly callibrated?`how can i calibrate the eizo over hdmi?
cheers janosch
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i made it YEAHHHHHHHH i calibrated my eizo with this https://www.avsforum.com/t/948496/avs-hd-709-blu-ray-mp4-calibration and now im VERY close to what i see on the eizo 😀
only quicktime and safari sucks 😀 but vlc chrome and firefox work spot on yeah :DDDD
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