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Help with calibrating my NTSC monitor, and my Apple Cinema Display
Greetings, I’m seeking help in setting up both my NTSC monitor, as well as my Apple Cinema Display. If anybody could point me in the right direction for a good tutorial for either of these, i’d greatly appreciate it.
As for the Apple Cinema Display, I have a Pantone Spyder 2, which works great, but it always makes my monitor look much darker then seems normal.
Thanks much in advance for your help.
Sincerely, Jack Pitzer -
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For the NTSC monitor, check out this link:
https://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
Thanks Shane!
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To do it right, you need to use a light probe on the NTSC. Sony BVM’s have an optional probe which plugs into the monitor. Lower end models like PVM’s need to use a very expensive light probe. We hire an engineer to do this every few months.
I leave my cinema displays at their factory settings, and only judge color on the NTSC. This allows stuff going out to broadcast to be as close as possible, and stuff ending up on LCDs will be close to what other users will see on their LCD (same for the plasmas in our suites)… if you calibrate your LCD you will never know what someone else will see on their LCD. The only reason to calibrate an LCD is if you are working with print, in which case the spyder is good.
-Matt
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