cineSpace Documentation
Profiling Considerations
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.
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
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;
- If your monitor has a colour restore function, close cineProfiler
run colour restore then try profiling again.
- While still in the optimisation page adjust the brightness of the
monitor in the direction you need (up if you need for red gain)
then adjust your bias sliders to 0 before adjusting the gain
again.
Note: AS long as all the bias sliders are at 0 (-2 to
+2, is OK) then the black point you set on the pluge page will remain
valid even if you have changed the brightness.
- Just set the bias sliders correctly and then adjust the R, G and
B gains until the gain sliders are all level. ie. If the Red gain
slider says +23 and your monitor's gain is at 100% then just adjust the
green and blue gains until both the green and blue sliders also read +23
... or the text under the gain sliders reads colour good or
colour OK
- If all else fails buy a new monitor !
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This documentation last changed on October 19, 2004.