Problems with RedCine x Pro and Color Calibration

[Adrian Durazo]

Alright so I have an issue with my monitor setup. By no means is it a pro setup but it is what I can afford at the moment. I have a nMac Pro running two monitors, one dell 27" qhd display as main, and a 24" UHD display to monitor. They both support hardware calibration, but only the 24" has mac support for the hardware cal, the 27" is only software calibrated with an Xrite i1Display pro and here is the problem. When i apply the icc profile created by the Xrite to the 27", and open either Davinci Resolve or any of the Red software, my footage looks way saturated and contrasty compared to how it looks on the 24". The OS and all other programs look fine, including FCPX, when opened in quicktime or FCP its fine. The issue is isolated to Davinci resolve and red software, Even the UI on these changes depending on the monitor.
These softwares must be interpreting the icc profile in a weird way. This has been bugging the crap out of me for a while.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Marc Wielage]

I don't think either monitor is good enough to use for grading. The problem with computer LCD displays is that the off-axis viewing angles are pretty bad, the panel consistency is not good, and the greyscale accuracy is usually terrible. Even the really good computer displays like the Dreamcolors are not ideal for color grading. There are limits as to how cheap you can go before quality suffers terribly. Compounding the problem with different​ monitors just makes things worse.

 

[Christian Celada]

I would never rely on monitors, they are just a reference... Rely on scopes you can know exactly what you are creating, its very easy to understand once you get the vectorscope and the waveform in grading.

 

[Marc Wielage]

I would never rely on monitors, they are just a reference... Rely on scopes you can know exactly what you are creating, its very easy to understand once you get the vectorscope and the waveform in grading.

Oh, you can rely on monitors -- you just need really good ones, and not a $500 computer display. There's a huge difference between a modest computer monitor and a serious grading monitor, particularly when they're calibrated correctly. But I'd agree that the scope is always right in terms of telling you when the image is going seriously wrong.

 

[Adrian_Durazo]

Totally agree, these monitors are no true reference, and much less do they override the need for scopes, I simply want them to match and show me the same image between them, this problem is preventing this. Like i said, the UI and other programs look the same in their color reproduction, its just RCXP and Resolve.
Thanks for all the input.