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You can skip the optimization stage and you should be fine. Note that this is the same as profiling without changing any settings.
My LCD is registering as way too bright, what do I do?
Nothing. Profiling should work just fine. For LCDs you can usually skip optimization stage.
What is an advanced profile and should I be creating one?
An advanced profile contains 52 points per ramp, as opposed to 16 per ramp for a normal profile. This is mostly for debugging purposes, but may be useful if you are having trouble with the dark colours. But you should almost never have to use one.
Can I profile my monitor without the colour probe?
The process of calibrating & profiling your cannot be achieved without a device to measure the absolute response of your display. This is where the XRite DTP92 Colorimeter comes into play.
Without a specific profile based on a workstation's display hardware, the colour correction provided by cineSpace's default profile (in combination with the cineon [film] or PAL/NTSC [broadcast] output paths) will offer a dramatic improvement over that of an un-altered display however, the above-mentioned scenario (without probe) is far from an ideal solution.
In measuring the exact response of your workstation's display (via the colour probe), cineSpace is able to build a customised profile that more accurately compensates for the inadequacies & discrepancies of each particular monitor. This allows for an accuracy & consistency (between all displays in a facility for example) that simply can't be achieved without measuring the absolute response of the display device. Additionally, the calibration phase of profiling a monitor through the probe, matches the colour temperature to industry standards for film or broadcast environments.
Here at our production facility in Australia, we've cultured the habit of profiling our monitors on a regular basis to compensate for their continual variation in response.
Before I installed the software, my monitor looked pretty good to my eye. It wasn't perfect, nor did it exactly match the other monitors in the facility. Why must I adjust my monitor's hardware settings during the profiling process?
Indeed the calibration & profiling process may require you to adjust the hardware settings of contrast & brightness, in order to achieve the maximum gamut from your display device. Additionally, the recommended setting for individual colour bias & gain (when you target white dot on the centre-point of r,g,b-space), ensures that your display output is truly colour-independent for a given luminance, & accurately matches the industry standard colour-temperature (5400K, 6500K).
This combination of hardware settings (unique to each monitor) represents the optimal configuration for displaying the possible range of input data, because the output response (measured via the probe) is at it's most accurate & dynamic.
The generated profile in combination with cineSpace, accurately corrects any input to the measured absolute response of your display device, compensating for irregularities across the range of luminance.
It's highly probable that the new calibrated hardware settings of your monitor will give a different look to what you're used to however, once calibrated and profiled, the monitor's hardware settings should not be altered in any way (brightness, contrast, colour gain & bias, geometry, scan-rate etc.) as this may invalidate the generated profile.
For further information, please refer to the section on Advanced Monitor Considerations. Ê
Why can't cineProfiler detect the probe?
One common reason for not being able to detect the probe is that the
current user doesn't have read/write permissions to the required device.
Changing the permissions on the device will usually fix this.
Also ensure that the right drivers are installed. Some platforms need them some platforms don't - check the manual for your probe.
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