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as for screen calibration, the datacolor spyders are garbage. the xrite is marginally better. ran the calibration on my 2 dell 27” 4K screens and it was a minor difference from factory calibration. if anything I might guess that the 1-2 years of use they have drifted a little. one thing I have learned is that these calbrators are very behind the times in terms of how birght modern panels are and always want to calibrate your screen to a ridiculous 100 nits which barely works in a dark room with no windows. so you learn to shut _off_ most of the options like room light and just calibrate them. the other thing I do, I’ll set the brightness at 90 or 85%, run the calibration, then set the brightness 5% higher otherwise you again usually get a calibration thats too dark and not taking advantage of all the DR a screen has. eventually they will get it right.

On May 2, 2018, at 12:35 PM, Michael Powers <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Thnx for the great info Teddy. Our edit suites all have Flanders Scientific monitors, but we been waiting for four years on higher res monitors. These were cheap enough. Unless it is video cards or Render servers we have a tough time getting slated for gear as animators.

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Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] Calibrating TV monitors used with computers

Also - to add, if you are concerned with broadcast color accuracy I'd highly recommend a true broadcast quality reference monitor from somewhere like FSI, that is being fed display from a dedicated blackmagic PCI-e card. Windows / GPU color output quality is notoriously bad. It's all about your signal chain

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
Mike, you're not going to get a close match without a decent hardware calibration tool like the x-rite i1 display pro creating those profiles from scratch per monitor. A simple color profile loaded from the internet is not going to take into account the hardware differences to each monitor, and is extremely unlikely to match between even the same brand of monitor, much less different brands and types. You can also look at Spyder but I've had bad luck with those. And these tools, in the $150-500 range are really not going to get you more than a close match between screens. To get true broadcast-quality color-matching and / or accuracy I'd recommend hiring a professional with a high-end calibration tool. those can run in the 5 or 6 figures, but you can have them come in for a day at a reasonable cost and rent their hardware / expertise depending on your needs

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Michael Powers <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
We recently purchased four Samsung MU7000 40’ monitors ($550) for our animators. Aside from some annoying edge enhancement, having the a 4k workspace and an image that looks much closer to the video walls we mainly use, they are great.

My question is what is the best way to calibrate them? I have searched for .icm color profiles, but there doesn’t seem to be any for TV monitors. Also, is there method for getting true monitors to match the TV monitors?