There are even more variables than for TV. A cheap LCD, old ass CRT, phone, tablet, LED, OLED. I stick with scopes and broadcast monitors, but will give it a bit of more saturation and contrast because I don't have to worry about chroma blowing out on Comcrap or other antiquated cable provider.
I'd say more than 99% of computer users never touch the color adjustments on their monitors from out of the box til the day it is replaced. You've got different gamma settings on older Mac systems as well.
Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com
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From: Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us>
To: Avid List 2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2011 12:01 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Judging web color
I asked a form of this over on the FCP list so please excuse this
posting for those that read both:
With a few decades in broadcast, I am working on my first web-only
production and wondering whether that changes the rules of how to judge
aspects of it especially color.
My impression is that the default position for professional work in
video is to use current broadcast standards and then assume that the
translation to the internet goes okay, adopting the same relationship
production houses have taken to broadcasters in the past (broadcasters
who often imposed those standards for delivery.) In the past, if it
"looks and sounds good leaving here" everyone has done their job and it
was up to the broadcaster (or tape duplicator) to muck it up in
distribution.
With the advent of web distribution, we've often cut out the middleman.
I can deliver the actual compressed file that will be seen on someone
else's computer screen.
So does anyone judge the color of their product looking at it, in a form
closer to the end user's experience, on a computer monitor (instead of a
special LCD monitor set up to broadcast specs?) If so, which monitors do
folks feel have the most accurate color reproduction for that purpose?
Or is the variability in current computer monitors less than the
variability one has historically dealt with in TVs? So that most higher
end computer monitors set using external calibrators are good enough for
that purpose...
D.
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