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Is there a way to calibrate my external tv monitor?
Hello,
I have a flat panel westinghouse 19in LCD (model SK-19H210S) TV hooked up to a Datavideo converter via firewire to my Mac Pro to view what my video will look like before it goes to a DVD.
Is there a way for me to get those color bars on the tv and calibrate it a little. I just want to make sure the tv color is somewhat close.
Thank you
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4 Replies
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It’s relatively close to just eyeball bars and adjust the color, hue, brightness and contrast if you KNOW exactly how they are suppose to look. Sans that I’ve heard of putting blue gel in front of the monitor to simulate a blue only display… never really tried it though.
You can also have a professional calibration done to the set. Call Best Buy to find out about this, but figure it would be best to do it that way. Probably cost about 300 bucks or so….
Jerry
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Thanks for you help Jerry.
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The only way to truly calibrate that monitor is with a Matrox MXO connected via DVI. A blue gel can work, but it’s tough.
Have a wonderful day.
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The blue filter to use is a Kodak Wratten 47B blue filter. B&H sells them. They work fine.
First set brightness and contrast. Counter-intuitively, the contrast control on consumer TVs adjusts white level and the brightness control adjusts black level. Set your blacks (brightness) using the pluge pulse on the color bars, the left bar should just disappear. Set white level (contrast) so the white square on the color bars just barely gets as bright as possible. Set it so any adjustment lower makes it get dimmer and any adjustment higher doesn’t make it any brighter.
Hold the filter up to one eye and view SMPTE color bars through that eye only. Adjust color saturation until the top and bottom clips of the two outside bars match in darkness. Adjust tint/hue until the top and bottom clips of the two inner bars match in darkness. These controls are interdependent. When you change one, it may change the other two bars, so go back and forth until they match.
My experience has been that consumer LCD TVs can’t be corrected to true balance. They will always be a be off, no matter how carefully you adjust them. They don’t have enough gamut range and the gamma curve is off and not adjustable.
George
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