monitor calibration

[Vince Becquiot]

It is different from still photography, because you are not calibrating for print (CMYK) but for Television (RGB).

If it has a blue only function, all you need is to send color bars through AJA (either from premiere or from capturd footage), otherwise you’ll need a large blue gel sheet.

This is a step by step guide (there are others online)

https://www.simvideo.com/downloads/MonitorCalibration2.pdf

While this is for CRT, these broadcast LCD monitors (unlike your average LCD monitor) have about the same gamma as a CRT, so this guide will work just fine.

The only difference is that you probably don’t really need to let it warm up that long.

Vince

[Alan Condra]

This is the same approach I have always used – I had presumed that is was different on LCDs.

Small detail – still photography generally works in RGB up to the point of prepress.

Thanks.

Alan Condra

[Jeff Brown]

I have a JVC monitor also. I find you should let it warm up for an hour to be sure the backlight is at full brightness. The fluorescent lamp takes a while to warm up completely.

You may find it useful to first calibrate your JVC, then use bars and some full-range footage to match your computer graphic displays as best you can to the JVC. That way there’s not so much “disconnect” when you look from one to the other.
Also, proper ambient lighting can really help the appearance of a properly calibrated monitor. Ideally, a 6500K lit medium-dark grey background around the monitor. I think there’s a SMPTE spec for that… here’s a commercial, home-theater type possibility:

https://www.cinemaquestinc.com/ideal_lume.htm

-jeff