going on YouTube and today we're gonna do interesting video by popular demand
I've done video about monitor calibration a little while back and a
lot of you guys asked me to repeat it to do more in depth so here it is it's not
gonna be entertaining video you know I wish I could put a clown suit with a
little no so it's gonna be a little bit more fun but you know it's gonna be
basically like a pure information so I'm gonna show you two different methods
we're gonna cover in this video number one first thing I'm gonna do we're gonna
do a calibration basically using operating system what that means what
are you using Windows or iOS we're gonna calibrate our display as a color
management so every single time you would start the computer whatever the
mode or preference we're gonna calibrate that's how your monitor going to display
now for many of you it's going to be either srgb rec 709 if you guys want to
be more specific or you have some kind of a job whatever you want I cannot
exactly tell you precisely settings because there are a little bit different
vary from computer to project to many other form factors but I'm gonna try to
cover as much as possible so first thing we're gonna do we're gonna do display
Cal okay so display Cal you can download it for free
it's basically open source software and it's very powerful it's extremely
powerful being open source and it gives you a lot of different options first
thing for this video I'm gonna be using my I display calibration tool over here
okay I'm gonna plug in this thing in a second I have the sting plugged in and
like I said we're gonna do first thing as a color management so your device is
ready to go in the color management options and you're probably gonna do the
same thing for the Mac I'm not too much on the Mac but you're probably gonna
have the same thing one thing to keep in mind make sure you monitor have RGB mode
meaning you can manually control RGB within your monitor now you monitor
gamma doesn't really matter technically most monitors gonna be to point to gamma
and it's okay you don't need to have to point for
gamma monitor to properly calibrate it for rec.709 you know I know some pro is
gonna be like bullshit now trust me I'm gonna show you the numbers you can do
and the results accurate I compared it personally with the Ben key use with the
Flandres it's identical again that's just my experience so anyways here we
have my display this is my old screen let's say this is my main display now
output levels make sure you have full range over here from 0 to 255 now your
instrument is gonna be your calibration device like in my case it's I display
pro spiders they're okay they're not as good and they're very slow so if you're
planning on becoming like a colorist like full-time get I display because
what spiders you're probably gonna have tough times and calibration takes
forever plus they're not exactly that accurate they still doing good job but
they're not exactly that accurate so mote leave it default LCD okay so this
basically is the first tab now the second tab this is where everything
happens again I'm gonna give kind of a general
idea to you guys because I can't really you know taking account everybody's
different systems but I'm gonna show you how to do basically accurate in this
case rec 709 so for the observer leaf whatever you
have default so in this 1931 in a white point also don't touch it
now white level so white level is basically your knits
it's the brightness okay now the calibration in most professional
calibration houses their brightness set between 18 it's 220 needs for standard
rec 709 I like to be a little bit brighter that's why I'm doing hundred
twenty so anywhere between 80 220 you're fine
I do also a little bit photography so to me 120 works perfectly I know my screen
I have a lot of experience you know working with different formats and all
that I can probably at this point even through color grading on uncalibrated
display but 120 works for me now the black points self-explaining
generally darker better 1/2 over here 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ok bunch of zeros so that's pretty much pitch black now it's on curve in my
experience if you don't have proper rec.709 monitor you can set rec 1886 and
gamma 2.4 even if you display cannot give you 2.4 most likely you display 2.2
you still can get accurate results as long as your display generally covers
srgb so with this kind of settings we're gonna basically do rec 709 now ambient
light level adjustments I do not recommend touching this because you
should leave your screen always would you know with the same ambient you don't
want to have any kind of variables going on so leave it on calibration speed very
high preferably probably you can lower it if you're not sure if it's going
do a good job so in my case very high is working good for us okay now next step
profiling profiling very simple it's basically it's a test chart in your case
select Auto optimized and increase the number to something about two thousand
in my experience two thousand is a very solid number you don't need to go more
I've tested different variations I didn't see any kind of performance you
know the better quality from doing more than that I'd say anywhere from thousand
to two thousand you should be good so again that's my experience your results
be very again I'm just showing general result now 3d lut as of right now we
don't need this this 3d lut gonna be the second part where I'm gonna show you how
to create a different method of calibration so verification verification
after the calibration done again it's going to display a number of patches to
verify how accurate calibration went obviously larger is better don't go too
crazy and also don't go too low so with this kind of settings I have three
twenty five I believe by default it's something like fifteen so this works in
my case very well okay so as of right now everything is pretty set okay let's
go to calibration screen again and let's click calibrate and profile and you're
gonna see a big gray square shows up on your computer monitor now at this point
you want to have your calibration device on your monitor I placed my calibration
tool right over here and by the way if you're gonna use this display for color
grading for example again DaVinci Resolve you know
that your viewport gonna be some around here and I highly recommend placing your
calibration device exactly over here a lot of times lower end monitors will
most of the times lower end monitors not consistent with the color output and
luma output so you want to get the closest results preferably where the
image is going to be so in our case is going to be somewhere around here okay
so that's great we set everything up now let's click start measurement okay when
we click start measurement we're gonna see this little funky icon showing up
and basically what that means that it will align everything over here where we
see arrows to the quality of our current state so we know that right now we're
doing 1886 two point four gamma right in the brightness 120 so it knows the
program and it's gonna compare what's the state of my monitor right now and if
it's wrong it's gonna tell me where I need to correct it so this is a
fantastic starting point that's why you need to have your monitor RGB controls
because otherwise you won't be able to dial it precisely okay let's click start
measurement and we're gonna see that this thing displaying different kind of
color patches basically okay and once it's done we can see for example that I
have a little bit brighter than it's supposed to be and my blue channel is
not saturated enough okay I don't have enough blue so what I'm gonna do I'm
gonna go into menu F camera going on over there and I hope I hope you can see
what I'm doing but I'm sure you're gonna get the point okay so we can see how
actually moving this produces different results this means that the panel is not
good or my monitor actually going on I don't use this monitor for work anymore
I have external monitor I LG but we can see how moving this thing
makes a huge difference anyways okay so let's go to the color brightness first
thing I'm gonna do is increase the brightness by this according to this new
point okay so now we have everything green so that's good now let's see I'm
gonna go down and like I said even though you have gamma to point to
believe me you're gonna be fine so we're gonna go to game and I have right now
RGB hopefully you guys can see it from my other camera over there in the back
but again you get you got the point so with RGB I'm gonna start increasing
this a little bit so all our results are neutral so we can see everything is
green right now at this point we can see that it's being consistently green okay
it's keeping keep updating like every second I can click on stop measurement
and at this point I can click continue to calibration and it's gonna take me
through a series of 2000 patches you know taking a snap of every patch and
doing its magic behind so this is how you calibrate for your operating system
for color management okay I'm gonna cancel this one because I don't want to
make you wait all that time so this is method number one now method number two
is a professional method so let's say that right now I have external monitor
now you can use small HD you can use any kind of higher-end monitors as long as
they accept the lot as a matter of fact you can even use your TV if you have the
lock box it's a little device called lock box you basically can load the lot
and this kind of goes between your computer and the monitor and it's gonna
reflect you know the lot adjust was basically I'll you can also do it within
DaVinci Resolve but usually when you load a lot with
DaVinci Resolve it slows down performance just a tiny bit and it's not
necessarily the most optimal method of color grading it has multi
issues and I personally don't like it I really like loading it directly to the
monitor that way you get the most accurate results anyways I'm going off a
little bit over here now the second method is a little bit more tricky so
instead of your display over here we didn't select DaVinci Resolve okay again
everything else I leave the same calibration again depending on what kind
of monitor you have you can leave again 1886 2.4 same 120 giving disclaimer
again this as example ok blackness the dark as possible ok profiling again
everything is the same one difference is is 3d lut first of all we have to select
create 3d lut after profiling and here basically you're gonna dial what you
want your lot requirements to be so I'm guessing if we're doing sort of rec.709
here's all our parameters over here whatever you want to choose source color
space and the tone curve so that's up to you I'm not gonna go over those things
this process a little bit tricky you know I can just randomly say okay use
this use there's different project different monitors you kind of need to
know in this particular case what exactly you're dialing but for the sake
of video let's leave it like that so right now everything looks cool 3d lut
resolution not all monitors support 65 I believe most monitors go between 17 to
like 33 so make sure also keep that in mind you don't want to waste one hour
calibrating later just to find find out your light is not working
okay so 3d format again whatever your system takes dot cube pretty much
standard you know for resolve let's say anyways so now I'm gonna launch DaVinci
Resolve and I'm gonna click over here calibrate
in profile and you're gonna see what happens right now we're gonna see a
little IP address and I'm gonna show you in a second what exactly that means so
we are in resolve I'm gonna just quickly drag the clip that I shot some random by
the street you can use whatever the hell you want it doesn't matter as long as
you have new timeline it needs timeline kind of like After Effects
you need something you know to create a comp basically the same thing goes here
so let's go in the collar and in the color
we're gonna go to workspace monitor calibration and we're gonna select
Coleman and in the Coleman we're gonna dial the magic numbers 1 I don't
remember 192 168 0 5 192 168 0 5 and we're gonna
click connect so it says it connected so what that means that we're gonna go back
to this and we're gonna click start measurement so now instead of our
operating system generating the venture is all going to generate all those
patches so I'm gonna click OK and I'm gonna click start measurement ok
just like that in my case again everything over here is properly
displayed now obviously make sure that you're gonna be doing this on the
display that you want to calibrate so in this case everything is okay I'm gonna
click stop measurement if parameter is a little bit off you adjust them and
you're gonna click continue to calibration and it's gonna be exactly
the same thing like a previous method but in this case in the end it's going
to generate 3d lot for you that way you can use on your monitor or whatever the
hell basically you're doing so that's about it to this calibration method it's
not that complicated just make sure you kind of know you know what you're
calibrating it for obviously this video is just a general kind of idea what
those some of those numbers means you know more advanced obviously goes more
complicated than that but in general if you kind of follow those steps within
the rec.709 or even srgb you should be golden so hopefully that answers some of
your questions and if you have more leave a comment below and I'll see you
guys soon take care