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Re: [colorvision_group] Is there a colorvision solution to my video editing problem?
2008-05-08 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 5/8/08 9:06:04 AM, brian.hibbitt@... writes:
My requirement is to do with video editing and the need to achieve
consistency across a number of monitors. Being in the UK I am working
with PAL output.
I need to balance 3 monitors connected to a single PC (all LCDs) 2
connected from a dual NVidia 6800 card via DVI-D cables(displaying the
desktop across the two screens) and the other (displaying the HD video
output but not the desktop) via component cables from the dedicated
Edius editing card. In addition I have a conventional PAL CRT used for
displaying and checking edited DVDs.
Is it possible to use the Spyder or SpyderTV to get all of these into
reasonable balance?
If you run a video monitor from a standard computer videocard (as a computer display, in other words), and your software does not bypass the VLUT corrections with the videostream, than standard Spyder computer monitor adjustments can be applied (though the ICC profile will not be used by most video applications, only the videocard corrections). If you run a video monitor from another source, without a computer videocard, you can't calibrate it in the nonexistant videocard. In that case the solution is to calibrate it using a SpyderTV product, because its running as a TV.
If you are using FinalCut Pro, Apple actually demonstrates this video editing tool using Spyder3Elite to calibrate the computer displays. Sounds like you are using a Windows or Linux system, however.
C. David Tobie
WW Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
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