@DaftFader 458823 wrote:
Well he works on them monitors doing stuff like film editing and game design … so needs the colors to be perfect (he sais turning the gammer etc down messes up the acuracy of the color.
I can sort of understand what he means but surely the accuracy is going to vary depending on all sorts of factors including the colour temperature of the ambient light and the main thing would be to set them so they give the right balance against something like a SMTPE colour chart or whatever the people who are going to be watching his film want?
I know in the analogue days there were strict rules about what colours could go onto TV as the PAL encoding overloaded on bright reds for instance, and there are also restrictions on what colour values can go through the digital telly as well but there is software to warn against these…
At the moment my monitors are being fed from two different computers and the colour balance is very subtly different because of the graphics card drivers settings (although both are Intel mobile). I could line up both monitors to be exact but I really can’t be arsed TBH, there are more interesting things I could be doing instead… that said if I was in his situation I’d get whatever the current standard was from the EBU UER the SD one is tech note 3305 but I still haven’t gone HD yet for video..
in the early 90s the Germans always used to send either that pattern or the Phillips PM5544 down satellite telly channels before the telly, along with the very distinctive audio
“3 level test signal – Deutsche Bundespost. üüüüüüüü – üüüüüüüü – üüüüüüüü “
“Signal d’éssai á trois niveaux – Deutsche Bundespost. üüüüüüüü – üüüüüüüü – üüüüüüüü “
“Dreipegels-Testsignal – – Deutsche Bundespost. üüüüüüüü – üüüüüüüü – üüüüüüüü “
(the ü being at -12, 0 and +9 dBm0s)
they don’t do things by halves there… (of course today the Deutsche Bundespost is long gone, its now T-Systems and the broadcast bit got sold off to someone else but EBU/UER still use this signal) 😉
