You have it backwards Dennis. You check the scope first and then the monitor. Why?
Because of the way the human eye/brain combo works. Unlike a camera, we are doing a mental "white balance" all the time. So what you see as white on the monitor your brain will accept as white, however there are tons of shades of white. So your idea that a monitor and your eye can tell what is the proper shade of white for your intended color space is ludicrous.
I maintain the first steps for color correction are objective, make it legal for your intended distribution, then make it consistent (matching cameras, etc) then comes the artistic subjective part of giving it a look. The scope is mandatory for the first two parts, the objective parts.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@...> wrote:
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, I wrote:
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> <<Use your eyes to tell you what looks right on that monitor, THEN
> check your scopes to make sure you're good. It seems odd for me (a
> technician) to be saying this, but I believe that art comes before
> technology. It should look good to your eye before you question its
> technical 'correctness'.>>
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> On Dec 9, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Terence Curren wrote:
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> > The problem is your eye automatically adjust all day long. So
> relying on what your brain tells you the color on your monitor is
> sounds like a recipe for disaster. Is that white really white?
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> That's why I said to check your scopes AFTER monitoring by eye.
> Also, color monitors used for critical color decision-making should be
> installed in a controlled environment in order to minimize these
> judgement variations. If you have to worry about whether the white on
> a specific monitor is really white, you don't have a reliable
> reference monitoring environment.
> The original question was more about contrast issues than colorimetry.
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> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> NBC Today Show, New York
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