Colormunki display blue cast dark gray install#
Colormunki display blue cast dark gray professional#
Colormunki display blue cast dark gray windows#

To conform to the SMPTE standards for a grading suite, the monitor should be calibrated to 35 ft-L of light output. (This is VERY convenient, as you don't have to fuss with turning the lights on and off separately).

Colormunki display blue cast dark gray install#

They are easy to install behind the screen, and when you buy the optional power strip, you can have the back lights turn on and off with the TV. I recommend buying the Ideal-Lume lights from CinemaQuest. If you are using a Plasma or LCD for your client/viewing monitor, it needs to have the appropriate amount of back light. :) The light levels of the client area should be 2 - 10 ft-L as recommended by SMPTE. Any ambient light that you place in the room, should not produce glare on the screen, or wash it out, as that defeats the whole purpose of a grading suite. Sylvania offers a line of florescent bulbs perfect for general room ambience. And they should have an CRI of 90 or higher. Or, in other words, it should be 6500k in color temperature. Any fixture that you bring in to the room should conform to the D65 standard. NEVER under any circumstance have mixed color temperature light while grading. It is just as important to control the kind of light you bring in to your suite as it is to keep unwanted light out. When it comes time to furnish the room, keep it neutral/desaturated, and keep it simple. eCinema Systems is where I bought my paint from. So unless you want your footage to have an extra amount of blue in the grade, just get the real stuff. I have seen 18% gray paint made by Home Depot by taking a sample of the real stuff and it failed - it had a blue cast to it. Batch to batch the colors can shift, and even if you do get a large enough batch it will have a strong color cast to it. No matter how hard they try they will not be able to get you the correct 18% gray color. The problem with Home Depot paint all comes down to quality control.

Now you may be thinking to yourself, I can just go down to Home Depot (or somewhere similar) and have them mix up some gray paint for me. If you are using a Plasma or an LCD, then you are going to need to use 18% Neutral Gray. The color of your walls is going to depend on your viewing system- if you are using a projector, then you are going to want to keep your walls black. So unless you want people to look jaundice in appearance, it is best to go completely neutral. If your walls are yellow, for example, your eyes will adjust to the abundance of yellow, and you'll be adding in extra yellow to your graded image to compensate. This ability is not so great when it comes time to grade footage in a colored room. Our optical system is amazing adaptive- it has been designed so that when we walk from the outside 5600k color temperature light into the 3200k light of most interiors we never notice the color shift- everything retains its proper color. The worst thing you can do in your grading suite is to have colored walls. When I close the curtains in this room it is pitch black even in the late afternoon when the sun shines directly in the windows. I then hung a black curtain over the window, and on top of that I hung black blackout curtains.

Colormunki display blue cast dark gray windows#

To help control the light in my room, I placed the darkest window tinting I could buy from Home Depot on the windows (which are behind me in the picture above). If you have stray light hitting your screens, or the wrong color temperature light lighting the room, it will hamper your ability to properly grade and view your content. This is the first and most important thing that you need to take care of when setting up your suite. Be able to watch blu-ray's and content from my computer (web pages, photoshop, etc.) directly on my 50' Plasma. Be able to view 10-bit content as I grade, and 3. Have a tightly controlled room that I could grade my work in, 2. In the room I have dubbed 'The Viewing Room' in my house, my goals were threefold: 1. The first thing to do when designing the layout out of any room is to clearly define the goals you want to accomplish. My solution will get you 80% of the way there, for about 20% of the cost (minus the years of grading experience). They may grade an image using default presets and call it good enough. More and more these days, I find the need to be grading the footage myself, so that I can be sure that the end results are not screwed up by someone in the production office who thinks they know what they are doing. And while I would LOVE to be able to work side by side with a colorist to finish every project, the reality is that the budget just doesn't exist for every single project. Having spent time in those suites, nothing replaces the opportunity to work with an experienced and talented colorist - they are worth every penny.

Colormunki display blue cast dark gray professional#

First off, I think it is important to acknowledge that this grading suite does not replace a high end professional suite.