Color correction - Calibrating Imac monitor for best results

[Jonathan Burton]

Hey,

I have just finished a few Red projects and am using the offline Color workflow. I am now at the final grading stage and am wondering what the best settings are for my Imac screen??

I have run a custom calibration through System pref>Display>Color> Calibrate using expert. This all worked fine, but there are other presets in the Display>Color section including:

Adobe RGB (1998)
Generic RGB Profile
sRGB IEC61966-2.1

as well as 2 separate Imac profiles that are both different.

Are any of these best for color correction?? I have been told to get a CTR Monitor by some people, but others have said that this will be no use for anything going out to the net or LCD etc. which makes sense.

Surely you do not have to do a separate grade for a TV out, Internet, DVD etc. ?? That seems very inefficient. There must be a middle ground?

What are others using for Red color correction in a Mac workflow? I will buy a separate color grading monitor if anyone can recommend me one. HP seem to do a good one, is this the way to go?? Any help would be very much appreciated!!

 

[Kaku Ito]

Eyeone Display 2 is one of the best I found for the economical choices.

 

[Loren White]

You should be in REC 709/D65.

You could look into the FSI monitors, Panasonic Plasmas (11, 12 series) and some have had good results with the HP DreamColor.

 

[Kaku Ito]

Eyeone Display 2 can be set to target 709/D65, so yes be sure to choose that, too.

 

[Hans von Sonntag]

REC 709 is very close to sRGB/Gamma 2.35.

Hans

 

[Martin Weiss]

I was about to order the EyeOne Display 2, when I read a reviewer mention that it does not support wide-gammut monitors, nor does it let you profile video beamers out of the box. The software hasn't been updated for over 2 years.


So - is this still the best solution, or would I be better off with a Spyder 3?

(OK, I'll ask an embarrassing question: And how do I find out which monitors have wide-gammut?)

 

[Ben Brainerd]

I was about to order the EyeOne Display 2, when I read a reviewer mention that it does not support wide-gammut monitors, nor does it let you profile video beamers out of the box. The software hasn't been updated for over 2 years.

The software's still pretty decent at what it does, despite not being updated. I used the original software for a long while, and only recently moved over to ColorEyes (http://www.integrated-color.com/) which uses my EyeOne2 as a sensor but has much deeper control than the EyeOne software.

(OK, I'll ask an embarrassing question: And how do I find out which monitors have wide-gammut?)

They're explicitly labeled as such, for the most part. Kinda "If you have to ask, you ain't got it"