Problems calibrating with a Spyder2 probe

[Mike N]

Hello,

I own a Spyder2pro colorimeter and I calibrated my LCD monitor with it (Gamma 2.2 6500K White point). To my eye everything now looks a bit too dark and bit a blue tint.
My question is which programs actually care about this calibration. For example Redcine-X Gui is now actually too dark and the video window is the same.

However doing a little test in avid to see if this darker calibration is correctly made I opened up the color correction module and did an auto black point modification to my video. With the old un-calibrated monitor profile my blacks still looked washed out, with the new calibrated profile the blacks were truly black. so i guess from this angle it's ok.

But does video editing and color correction software have something similar to Photoshop which know how to actually handle color profiles and modifies your image accordingly or do you just calibrate your monitor and then work according to that ?

Is a Spyder2 probe a good start in this direction or do I need some more expensive and sophisticated tools for video work ?

thanks.

 

[MichaelP]

Remember that those types of calibration is in RGB with a range of 0-255 (8 bit value for example). Digital video for SD and HD is 16-235 (8 bit values). Some graphics cards also have a different behavior with the overlay. Keep all these things in mind when calibrating and comparing.

 

[Mike N]

Well If I do the calbration in RGB 0-255 and set my editing or color correction application to show only 16-235 is this a good solution ?

 

[gameboykk1]

Some graphics cards also have a different behavior with the overlay.