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Premiere Pro Monitor too dark for color correcting
Hello, I’ve been using Premiere Pro 1.5 for editing for some time. It does fine except when I capture footage from my Panasonic DVX100A, the footage is always a lot darker on the Premiere monitor than the camera LCD screen.
This makes color correcting a problem and when I export to DVD, it’s no telling what it will look like on a TV screen.Is there some setting I’m unaware of for this, or is the solution an outside monitor or a new computer monitor. I use an NEC MultiSync 70 a CRT monitor. It’s already set as btight as it can go.
Thanks, Raymond -
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Raymond,
I am assuming here that you haven’t looked a the YC waveform for your footage, and that the monitor isn’t really calibrated. Two things first to consider. The LCD screen on a camera isn’t usually accurate in brightness (at all), and is often impossible to actually calibrate, and your CRT monitor loses brightness over time. The best way to see how bright your picture really is in realty is to use a waveform monitor. (There is one in premiere, called YC waveform in the preview monitor options)
Here are a couple of links, one to calibrate your monitor correctly (Most important), and one on a waveform monitor tutorial.
https://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm
https://www.cybercollege.com/tvp016.htm
https://www.cybercollege.com/tvp016-2.htmCheers,
Vince
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I didn’t really answer your last question, and I didn’t realise that you were actually working on a computer CRT.
Yes an external NTSC broadcast monitor would be the solution, at least for the next few years, but it’s costly.
As an alternative, you can get a firewire card, and send it to the camcorder through firewire and preview your footage on a TV.
Vince
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Hope fully you are not using the DVX monitor to make your exposure (judgements).
You need to do a little test. Expose some camera bars and then a white object with your Camera using 80% zebras. Capture it into prem then take a look at it using the waveform monitor. The white object should be sitting at 80%. You will also learn a lot if you take a look at the bars on the waveform also.
You can adjust the brightness/contrast in the DVX LCD monitor BTW but still be cautious about using it as sole judge of exposure (levels).
As a note: checkout ‘DVRack’ – field monitor software.
Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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Thanks guys, I’ll let you know how it goes – Raymond
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