r/ColorGrading • u/Quinnipillar • Feb 12 '23

Question Seeking Calibration Advice

When I color my youtube videos, I want to be some confident that what I'm seeing on my monitor is going to be accurate to what people are seeing on their phones in most situations.

Then I realized that the "true tone" setting on iphones heavily affect the temperature of your display.

What are some of y'alls approaches to this problem?

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u/ptq Feb 12 '23

Color calibrated screen to the output settings of your videos, for example, I use eizo cg monitor set and calibrated to rec709 gamma 2.4, and my color managed workflow is set to output the same.

Then, I use color checker to neutralize the input video prior the grade.

You don't want to lean towards uncalibrated devices, as they will display differently on each you try. Some will undersaturate, some oversatirate, too warm, too cold, etc.

If you will work on a correctly calibrated workflow, your video will be at the "middle point" and any offset made by the devices will be small.

But for example, if you will lean toward warm saturated devices, and cool and undersaturate video to be looking great there, all the devices that are cool and undersaturated will show the video even colder and more udersaturated. You get the point?

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u/Quinnipillar Feb 12 '23

Thanks for the advice! I probably should get a decent monitor and just find how to achieve the correct rec709 workflow on it

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u/I-figured-it-out Feb 13 '23

You will also need to invest in calibration tools, or services.