![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an investment in your work, something your clients will trust when you tell them you have one and they hold value so you’ll be able to sell it down the road. If you can afford a Flanders, absolutely get one. Unfortunately, the monitors you can get professionally pre-calibrated and trust them out of the box are like the Flanders and the Sony’s. So we have standards for our starting points to help mitigate just how off an image looks when it enters the wild, wild west of displays out of your control. And then you have the variables of settings that the user can set them to. You can put two of the same exact model displays side-by-side and they will not match 100%. Every screen and device and viewing platform is going to look different. Contrast is very important in terms of how we perceive colors.Īll of this is important to avoid situations like you just encountered. Our brains are incredible in how they perceive visual information and some stray light from mixed sources hitting your monitor or bouncing off a wall that is painted blue or green can completely alter how you are perceiving what you are grading. Ideally you're in a dimly lit room with D65 balanced lights reflecting off of neutral gray walls. Additionally, your grading environment is very important.With proper color management, you can then change your output delivery transform to whatever the intended viewing destination is if needed when the grade is complete for each deliverable. If you're not grading an HDR project or something for cinema exhibition, typically your monitor will be calibrated for Rec 709 - Gamma 2.4 as your working color space. For professional color grading, or really for any job that you're getting paid for, you want to have a properly calibrated monitor that is bypassing your OS and GPU via a device like a Decklink or Ultrastudio so that you have a clean video signal to your hero monitor.Newer Mac devices are P3 D65 as well, so anyone not on a newer iMac or MBP is most likely does not have a screen that displays P3 D65. Grading off of an uncalibrated monitor is not advisable, and neither is grading off of your GUI.Also, for the benefit of your own eyesight, you probably don't want to be look at such a bright screen all of the time, especially in darker environments. Not everyone is also looking at their screens at full brightness all the time, and some screens can't even go that bright. Standard brightness for Rec709 is 100 NITs (for online deliverables somewhere around 120 NITs is about fair, I believe), so you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. If you have a newer MBP, your max nit brightness is somewhere around 500 NITs.Also, bit of an overall magenta color cast, especially in the shadows. ![]()
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