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Monitor calibration
Hello.
Always this same confusing subject for me, but I’ll try to make this as clear as possible and if anyone could throw in their two cents, I would be much obliged!
I’m working with rushes from a Sony a7sII shot in cine4 Color mode.
I calibrated my monitor (hooked up via cdmi and a Blackmagic Desktop mini monitor 4k card) using the x-rite i1 display probe and DisplayCal.
Once I profiled my monitor I chose my monitors 3D LUT in 3D Monitor Lookup Table inside Color management in Resolve (v.15.0.1).
(I pretty much followed these steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugfcvfXNsqc&app=desktop)
Does anyone see any problem with this method?
Now, I set my input Color space to Rec709 Gamma2.4 and my timeline Color space to Rec709 Gamma 2.4 and off I go!
The problem I have, is that the rushes look way off: they lack blacks and the colors look washed out. This is compared to how they look inside premiere or in any media player or even on another system. But fine, once I’ve graded the exports look consistent enough between platforms, but it’s annoying to start off from such a point.
In other words, the “before-and-after” inside Resolve just doesn’t make any sense since the “before” doesn’t look anything like the “before” on any other platform.
I hope this is clear!
Best regards.
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18 Replies
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Does anyone see any problem with this method? Yes
In time 07:55, He forgets to set some options: No LUT selected !
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Thank you for the input. So any suggestions as in which LUT to select here?
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The GUI viewers and scopes shouldn’t use any LUT especially if you don’t know what they do.
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Your settings must be as shown in the image – No LUT selected
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I set them to No LUT, but the change is ever so slight on the scopes, but I dare say that the output to my video monitor is still the same.
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Try changing the data levels from the clip attributes. They might be interpreted incorrectly.
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Didn’t do the trick, it was set to Auto, and putting it to video levels didn’t change anything.
On the other hand, when I’m in the media pool and I select the original clip the clip appears as it should on my video monitor, that is, not washed out!!!
When I then go into edit, boom, it appears washed out…. I checked in Color with timeline selected, there is nothing applied to the timeline….
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Well did you try forcing it to data levels?
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Also are your monitoring output levels correct for your monitor?
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Make sure you read the DisplayCal documentation – it gives you a lot more information that you need to know to do this properly.
https://hub.displaycal.net/wiki/3d-lut-creation-workflow-for-resolve/
Simon Ubsdell
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