cineSpace Documentation
Anatomy
This page contains the primary functions of equalEyes.
This button turns the display matching on and off.
- Activate
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Loads the currently calculated lut into the graphics card's lut.
- Deactivate
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Loads a uniform, linear lut with gamma of 1.0 into the graphics card's lut.
Note: When you exit equalEyes the lut that was being used by the graphics card before equalEyes was run is reloaded into the graphics card.
To select the profile of the monitor you are using, press this button.
EqualEyes will attempt to guess the right value for your computer but
may need some help. The default value can be set in the rsr.conf file.
Information about the age of the profile being used will also be
displayed in this button.
We do not recommend using monitor profiles older than 14 days.
This controls the current target profile. If the current target is
specified by a .xml profile, this button will allow you to change the
file used. If the current target is a "synthetic profile" you will be
taken to the synthetic profile page. The default settings for this
button can be controlled by the rsr.conf file.
Toggles the use of synthetic profiles or .xml profiles for the target.
EqualEyes has a synthetic profile facility where you can specify
the color and gamma for your target rather than needing to load an .xml
one.
To setup a 6500K+gamma 2.2 in equalEyes:
- Open equalEyes and select your monitor profile (if not selected by default)
- Switch to the Synthetic Profile `page' by right clicking and
selecting Synthetic Target or by pressing F7
- Click the colour temp check box and the CIE D checkbox
- Enter 65 into the colour temp text field and press
enter.
- Enter 2.2 into the gamma text field and press
enter.
The monitor is now being matched to a CIE 6500K illuminant with gamma 2.2 You can return to the EqualEyes main page by using the right click menu or pressing F5.
Alternatively you can set the synthetic profile values in the rsr.conf
file so the user need only click the Synth button on the EqualEyes
main page to match to these settings. To do this set the following
settings in the rsr.conf file.
RSR_SYNTH_GAMMA = 2.20
RSR_SYNTH_TEMP = 6500
RSR_SYNTH_WP_TYPE = temperature
RSR_SYNTH_TEMP_TYPE = CIE
The printer light page allows for tonal adjustments of the target
profile. The adjustments simulate the behaviour of standard film
printer light settings. The default settings for these can be set in
the rsr.conf file.
It is possible to copy the printer lights with Ctrl + C and
paste them into Shake to generate a node which will have the
same effect as the printer lights.
You can save the current state of equalEyes and restore it at a later
time.
- Save a preset
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Press the +/= Key followed by the number [1-9] of the preset you want to
store the current settings in.
- Load a preset
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Press the number Key of the preset you would like to load.
- Rename a preset
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While a preset is loaded press the N key then enter the name you would
like to give to the preset and click the `Set Name' button.
- Unload a preset
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While a preset is loaded press the N key then enter the name you would
like to give to the preset and click the `Set Name' button.
- Delete a preset
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Press the _/- Key followed by the number [1-9] of the preset you want to delete/clear.
Saved states will stay set even when EqualEyes is shutdown and restarted.
A right-click context menu is available on every page.
- Confidence Test
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This performs a test that the screen output is correct using a
connected probe.
- Minimize (not in OS X)
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Minimize the application.
- Opacity Toggle (not in Linux)
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The application can be made transparent to be less intrusive to the
user.
- EqualEyes
-
Displays the main / front page.
- Printer Lights
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Displays the Printer light page
- Synthetic Target
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Displays the Synthetic Target page
- Log/Linear Mode toggle
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This toggle button requires some explanation. In normal use (for film
images) toggling log to linear mode allows you to use equalEyes to view
linearised film images as well as raw log. However calling it a
log/linear mode is somewhat of a misnomer.
What is actually happening is that equalEyes transforms your display so
that whatever you are looking at will appear the same as if it was sent
straight to the output device with no modification. In the context of
film images this means we are talking about log images (ie cineon or dpx
file format usually) as this is the format that film recorders expect.
If you were working with normal video files (say for a computer
animation) and looking at them with HD calibration on then you would
still leave it in 'log' mode as what you are saying essentially is that
the image you are looking at will not be corrected on the way out.
Now if you are looking at a linearised film image that is going to be
converted to log before being sent to the film recorder you can toggle
the log/linear mode and voila it shows you what your currently
linearised image will look like after it has been converted and sent to
the film recorder. Now if you are following all this you might very well
ask the question `but how do you know how we are going to transform our
image to log ?'. The short answer is we don't, you have to tell us. Take
a look in the appendix at the rsr.conf file and you will see the
settings that we use and that you can customize.
- Scale Mode toggle
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When equalEyes is in scale mode (the default) the brightness of what you
see is controlled by how bright your monitor can be. When scaling is off
the brightness is controlled by the brightness of the target profile.
Usually you will want to use the full available brightness of your
monitor and thus have scaling on. However when it is important that the
brightness of nearby monitors match or to compare the brightness
of target profiles you will have to use the non-scaling mode.
Note: Non-scaling mode can introduce gamut clipping artifacts.
- Clear Luts
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Clears the LUTs and resets the application.
- Help
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Opens the help browser.
- About
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Shows the about page
- Exit
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Quits the application.
Opacity Toggle | [ F3 ] | -- | -- |
Show main page | [ F5 ] | [ Alt + E ] | [ Ctrl + E ] |
Show printer light page | [ F6 ] | [ Alt + P ] | [ Ctrl + P ] |
Show synthetic target page | [ F7 ] | [ Alt + G ] | [ Ctrl + G ] |
Activate / Deactivate | [ Space ] | [ Alt + Space ] | [ Ctrl + Space ] |
Log / Lin | -- | [ Alt + L ] | [ Ctrl + L ] |
Minimise | -- | [ Alt + M ] | [ Ctrl + M ] |
Help | [ F1 ] | [ Alt + H ] | [ Ctrl + H ] |
About | -- | [ Alt + A ] | [ Ctrl + A ] |
Exit | [ Esc ] | -- | -- |
Copy printer lights | -- | [ Alt + C ] | [ Ctrl + C ] |
Confidence test | -- | [ Alt + T ] | [ Ctrl + T ] |
Set linear lut | | [Backspace] | [Delete] |
Save lut | [ + or = ] then [ 1-9 ] |
Delete Saved lut | [ _ or - ] then [1-9] |
Apply Saved lut | [ 1 - 9 ] |
Return to last settings | 0 | -- | -- |
Name the active saved lut | [ n ] | -- | -- |
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Other key bindings may be defined by the operating system and window
manager.
The cineSpace suite is developed by Rising Sun Research.
Also available are the cineSpace Forums.
This documentation last changed on October 19, 2004.