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Profiling Considerations

Ambient Lighting

One of the most important parts of profiling is setting the ambient lighting conditions correctly. The ambient lighting should be set up to be as close as possible to the ambient lighting conditions that the work you will be doing on the monitor will finally be viewed in. For TV/video/HD this is quit dim but not completely dark, for film it is just about completely dark.

Selecting a target profile

The target profile that you choose to optimize your monitor to will determine the colour and brightness of the white point of the monitor. For the best match from your monitor you should always choose the target you intend working with on the profiled monitor. Ie. If you are about to do some film work and will be using the kodak_2383.xml target profile then select this profile as your target when profiling. This will set your monitor up to provide the best possible contrast and resolution when matching the target. If you are going to be doing a variety of work on your monitor then we recommend you use the default target profile as it will optimize the monitor into a more general space better suited to use with a variety of target profiles

Optimizing

When using macs or any monitor where there are no physical controls on the monitor you should skip the optimization step of the profiling process. Sometimes these monitors are controlled using the graphics card LUTs and since cineProfiler and equalEyes each clear the LUTs when they load, optimizing this type of monitor will in fact ruin the profile that is created. So unless you know this isn't the case for your LCD don't try to adjust the brightness or contrast.

If you are optimising and find that your monitor's bias and/or gain cannot be adjusted correctly (ie. you need to add more Red gain but your red gain is already at 100%) there are a few things you can try;

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This documentation last changed on October 19, 2004.