HOW TO SET UP YOUR GRADING SUITE Webinar

Kevin Shaw, Warren Eagles, Robert Wanat and CJ Dobson discuss
- Budgeting your setup
- Designing your room
- Choosing a display
- Calibrating
- Optimising for Client Experience
This webinar presented by iColorist is sponsored by LG UltraFine OLED Pro.

[@joncoy1852]

I did the same thing with my Medialight D65 desk lamp and a product grade! The client brought in the product (a pill organizer package), and I was able to examine it underneath true D65 lighting to get an idea of the actual colors of the printing on the package. Very useful! Also use Nanlites occasionally on set, and they're quite good.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

Sorry, I missed this live I can see that Rob Wanat when he finished talking was busy answering questions in the live chat. The question that I would like to know is related to the free calibration software. I just purchased the LG 42 inch C2 OLED and want to calibrate it, but Calman as you know, is windows only. So I was going to load a VM to run windows on my Mac - but is a bit of task setting up that then download Calman etc, So the question is - Will that calibration work with the home LG product like the OLED that I just purchased? If so is there a link to the site with the download? Thanks in advance. Enjoyed the topic and the session. Great information here. cheers

[@tristansummers]

The calibration software is specific to certain monitors and not the consumer televisions. But there are free options from Light Ilusion or displlycal though i highly highly recommend getting a pro to do it as you can't really do it properly without thousands of pounds of equipment and years of experience.

[@robwanat9708]

As Tristan already mentioned, the LG Calibration Studio is only intended for the professional monitors.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

@@robwanat9708 Yep, I get it. Just wishful thinking, I guess. Calman not being available on Mac is bit irritating for us. Thought maybe LG might want to have all the displays in the grading rooms to be accurate. If the client monitor is better than the colorists grading display, it wouldn't be long before the colorist might buy one of your pro panels. But it is what it is. Thanks for commenting

[@jamesoreilley2557]

Jim, As of Dec 2022 the LG C2 42" does not have the internal pattern generator enabled which is required for the Calman Home for LG software. I was told by Portrait Display there will be an update in the near future. If you are using an intel Mac consider Bootcamp for installing Calman Home for LG to run on Windows as an alternative to VMWare Fusion. I also wish Calman would run on Mac OSX in addition to Windozes.

[@SquareDealProd]

I bought Calman. There are tons of available used Windows laptops at a low price to run the software. I am Mac but my friend who also colour corrects is Windows. I installed Calman on his machine and just borrow his when I need to calibrate.