[Andrew Smith]

what were all of your settings just out of curiosity?

How were you sure it was rec. 709 gamma 2.2 etc?

thanks forth response!

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

After having it professional calibrated along with my plasma some small adjustments were made to my Dreamcolor to get it as close to rec.709 as possible – here are my settings now:

rec.709 color space
6800K not 6500 9apparently was a little too red i am told)
120 brightness
black level 128

One thing we do notice now though is that the grey pluge coming from fcp color bars is VERY noticeable on the plasma while on the LCD Dreamcolor it is barely visible – I was told by the calibrator that that is ok and that he probed both to be rec. 709 as close as possible.

fingers crossed that we invested wisely in the gear and the right calibration expert.

[Andrew Smith]

Just to clarify – did you leave it on rec.709 gamma 2.4 when you were using it? i seem to not be able to change gamma with this software either…will try the APS now but i imagine without the probe it wont allow me to do anything…

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

yeah its SO bad, you might as well have purchased it from some shady company in china or wherever – i cant wait to be able to afford an FSI 10 bit monitor or OLED once it catches some more traction in the market just to not have to deal with the HDLINK box and HP issues – it is very much not a ‘confidence’ monitor 🙂

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

oh man you would think the guy would have said something about this when i mentioned the Dreamcolor…however after looking thru each of the downloading on HP’s driver page i think the HP Display Assistant Utility is the software that might allow me access to changing Gamma and correct me if i am wrong but this does not require the probe to use?

Maybe if i try that and can change the gamma to 2.2 (like the FSI default rec. 709 shipping setup) then hopefully he can have enough control of settings on the monitor itself to get it calibrated with his probe’s.

Just curious – onyour FSI did you leave it as 2.2 rec. 709 or do you switch to other settings when doing film or web stuff not needing rec. 709 specs?

thanks for you input – really makes me sick of dealing with the Dreamcolor – needles to say the tech support is terrible compaired to FSI 🙂

here is a link to what I am talking about…hopefully if i launch this software i can adjust the gamma for rec.709 which is not adjustable on my monitor it seems.

https://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=382087&prodSeriesId=3648397&prodNameId=3648398&swEnvOID=228&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ir-95082-1

[Andrew Smith]

Hey Kevin,

I am on a mac system so i had to lug over a friends pc tower just to be able to update the firmware…i did not download or use any of the other stuff since it would require using the pc to adjust etc, and no i do not use a probe because i had been doing it by eye and now i have a calibration expert coming to me to probe both the dreamcolor AND my plasma to match rec. 709 – sounds like what you are saying is that I need that application to launch from the pc in order to change the gamma to 2.2?

can you explain in any further detail about this?

thank you

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

Just out of curiosity how best would I make this ‘remote” i.e. involving the client in sessions / reviews etc? Would we have skype video up on a 2nd monitor at both stations or what might the experts suggest for further enhancing this whole remote grading thing?
cheers

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

In advanced settings i see W/B High RGB and W?B Low RGB so is the ‘low’ my bias? I dont see anything that says bias – i assume the gain would be the high?

I just went into FCP and selected what looks like white and grey as separate color solids to throw in order to adjust those settings.

Otherwise I have gamma set to 2.2 in cinema mode and have turned down the brightness by -3 to match the pluge on my Flanders.

any other advice would be great! and in terms of the burn in i just have a 2 hour fcp sequence with various moving footage on a loop to go all day and night – is this ok?

thank you for your help.

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

Thanks for the advice guys!

Omar quick question:

I did the SMPTE out of FCP to get pluge to match now I want to do the other steps you recommended but I am not sure exactly how to make those and get them into FCP to output. any chance you can explain in details or possibly hook me up with your own “35-40% gray field and 100% white field”?

thank you
Andrew

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo

[Andrew Smith]

yeah i know but i just dont have that time unfortunately – just have to get it close to the flanders for clients view to match mine…in the meantime might i run something over night running out of FCP or Color to at least start to burn in the panny? I know there are special burn ins used to break in the panny’s any advice on best practice to do this on the quickfast?
thanks jake!

MacPro 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 / FCS3 / CS5
2.26 ghz 8-core / 24GB RAM
Nvidia GT 120/285 combo