[Andrea Franchini]

Hello, thanks you for the answer.

When I said some people target just a neutral color reproduction with their monitor I guess they’re trying to reach the sRGB color space, since most monitor can only do that. That’s why you read a lot about “making your monitor color neutral” and not “targeting a specific color space”. But you’re right.

What’s the purpose of a blackmagic decklink card? Does it bypass the internal processing of the OS and the GPU by simply taking the raw image from davinci and display it on another monitor? This make everything more complicated and expensive since, as you suggested, I should avoid using my main display, which is connected to my gpu, and use an external one connected to the decklink.

When you calibrate your monitor with the probe and the software of your choice, let’s say for rec 709, does the software offer you which standard are you trying to reach? But most of the time after the monitor calibration (the process of manually changing the monitor settings to get as near as possible to the target) there’s the monitor profiling, which will return a lut most likely. At this point where am I suppose to put this lut? Inside davinci in the monitor 3d lut to correct the monitor colors? Inside windows? But as said this can cause errors since some apps simply ignore it.

Now I have my monitor calibrated to the rec 709 standard. Now whatever I do to my footage, contrast, gamma, color changes will look similar with every other display (of course this is unrealistic due different technologies, …), but since my display is calibrated to 709, at least I know if the footage is watched on another calibrated monitor it should look the same right?

I understand that a decklink card would greatly improve the accuracy of the workflow, but for a beginner I think I should work with what I have and squeeze everything I can out of it.

What happen if I calibrate my monitor to SRGB? It shouldt be difficult for a software to convert it to rec709 right?

Again many questions and many doubts.
Thanks to you and to whoever asnwer all of this.