Why You Should Color Calibrate Your Video Editing Monitor (and how to do it!)

[@PremiereGal]

Color is important! I hope this video provided some options to help you get on your calibration journey!

[@pierrearson2323]

Always good videos! Never miss them!

[@Karlem-Medias]

You know what is amazing? Today's sound engineers are calibrating their audio for people listening on stupid cheap speakers so it sounds not too bad letting people with good systems and speakers suffering from this compromise... thanks for the excellent video!!!

[@balanced_horizon_101]

1 mins in and let me tell you I'm glad someone that I have followed for learning editing uses the same Asus Proart monitor as myself.

[@PremiereGal]

🎉 You are in the right place! Have you tried dolby vision yet on it?

[@balanced_horizon_101]

@@PremiereGal I guess I have to do a firmware update too. Thanks to you again.

[@PremiereGal]

@@balanced_horizon_101Yes! The firmware update got me too! But glad to see ASUS has regular updates :)

[@AlejandroGuimoye]

Great video! So for video editing work going to the web only, which color profile do you recommend we select on the monitor? I got the ASUS PorArt PA279CRV 27" 4k HDR Monitor

[@BuckKahlerNolpix]

Great descriptions of the different color spaces and how they're used! Thanks so much!

[@DanielRodriguez-fg5ll]

entertaining and informative, a rare combination. only one correction. your monitor has a built-in sensor but there are many other hardware calibrated monitors that allow the user to use Xrite, Spyder or other sensors but come with a dedicated software to interact with the monitor chips/modules. BenQ and even Asus ProArt has monitors like this. I have the cheap one you mention the PA279CRV and for its price, it is hard to beat. After all, very few of us woudl ever be in a featured film, so even entry level pro monitors are good enough.

[@aniketkesarkar2064]

❤ the intro

[@kittyhans1]

In the early 2000 we hung a Pantone Huey I have no idea what they do in 2024 and yes we treated it like an instrument that had to be tuned

[@PremiereGal]

pantone huey!

[@AndrewHunterSA]

P.S. Yes - converting between different Color Spaces would be good - especially why ? - pending on the output. KZbin is obviously Rec.709 - but you mentioned a Cinema Color Space ? And what are those other color spaces used for ?

[@AndrewHunterSA]

I researched into this - with reference to the ProArt PA278QV - WQHD display - for those on a tighter budget. You made no mention of the critical technical data of a calibrated monitor - namely: 100% sRGB; 100% Rec.709 - very NB = Color Accuracy ∆E < 2 (and Calman verified) - even expensive gaming monitors with high refresh rates (which even cost more) still do not have these specifications. When shopping for different brands - these are important (a high end gaming monitor will not cut it). [pun un-intentional!]

[@Repossessionn]

Thanks for this

[@xDianaMoonx]

This was great, thank you. I wish they'd teach this in video/graphic editing classes, to calibrate our monitors, cause we're not all going to be using the school lab for everything. Would love to see more videos like this. I do have a silly question, why do you have a hood on your monitor? Thank you!

[@PremiereGal]

Great! The hood is optional, the hood helps block out light so the display is even more color accurate.

[@svamptrask913]

@PremiereGal Did you turn on "Display Color Management" in premiere preferences under color? I think it´s turned off by default. I got my monitor calibrated and turning this on slightly changes the colors of my rec.709 videos in the program panel. Should this be turned on in premiere? I don´t understand why it´s turned off by default. My monitor is calibrated, not restricted to a color space I believe ("Photo" in Calibrite Profiler with these settings: 300 nit, D65, gamma 2.2).

[@Ranger7Studios]

Evey time I use a color calibrator, it dims my screen so much I can' see it. Even when the room is dark. Any tips for fixing this?Also, is there a way to make a LUT after calibrating your screen so you can add it to your camera when you shoot?

[@akyhne]

Video editing is usually done in dark rooms. And I mean no lights at all, besides maybe a D65 color accurate light to illuminate your keyboard/controls. Most calibration software, uses the recommended setting for video editing, which is 100 nits max. brightness. This is indeed very dark, but the bigger screen you use, the brighter it will seem. Video for cinemas are mixed to even lower nits, as the "screens" in a theater is so much bigger. Around 70 nits. As a rule of thumb, for cinema, it's ˜70 nits, for printing it's 80 nits, for SDR (rec.709) it's 100-120 nits, for HDR it's 1000 nits or higher. If you can't edit in a dark room, in principle, there's nothing wrong in mixing your videos at a higher nit, say 200 nits. You just set your calibration software, to calibrate to a max. output of 200 nits. Nits is btw. the same as CD/M2 (candellas per square meter).

[@kidnaperarthur2110]

Big fan mam

[@brianjacobsen2657]

Calibration intervals depend on the workload. I use 4weeks. But if I get really busy, I'll go 2 weeks

[@PremiereGal]

Yep👍 I talk about this also in the video. But I said 1 a month for medium workflow and 1 per week for heavy. And every 6 months for light.

[@darkreigncometh]

Not the 80s montage music!😂😂😂 Great video. 😊

[@PremiereGal]

We love an 80s track! 🎉

[@sudZAYNsu]

Will color look same on all the devices like iPhone, Android phones, ipad, Tv, laptops, etc if I calibrate my Asus Proart PA279CV monitor and edit on it?

[@akyhne]

No, they won't. But you assure, that the error is not on your side. Say, you have an uncalibrated monitor with a green tint and you edit the video there, the overall video will be too much magenta (opposite of green). if someone with an uncalibrated monitor/TV that leans towards magenta, the video will look very magenta on their display.

[@aashaaronstudios9328]

What if I calibrate my screen with the hanging device but someone comes in and watches a video on my imac and puts the manual brightness to FULL - what brightness level do you go back to OR will I need to calibrate again?

[@akyhne]

Most calibration software will ask you to adjust the brightness, during calibration. So, that number is very important. If your screen's OSD doesn't give you a percentage when you adjust it (but just a generic bar), you are screwed and have to do a calibration again. But if it does give you a percentage, you can just turn down the brightness to that percentage again.

[@sathyarajMomsmedia]

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[@808f4n]

Video starts with 8:40

[@mervinjabido3578]

would you recommend a gaming monitor for editing?

[@akyhne]

Most gaming monitors are not color accurate, although most these days can be fairly well calibrated. But it REQUIRES a calibration. And it's not a loss, as the game devs also use color calibrated monitors, so, you'll get the colors intended for the games. I personally use an Asus ProArt PA328CGV. It's a color accurate display, meant for gaming development. It's HDR 1440P 32" 165Hz and is not that expensive. Around $6-800,- 1440P on a 32" is a bit too little, but it doesn't bother me at all. But a 4K is much more expensive and much harder to run games on (in 4K). I recommend checking out Monitors Unboxed YT channel. They mainly do reviews on gaming monitors and do calibration on them all, to see how great and accurate, they really are.

[@mervinjabido3578]

@@akyhne appreciate your reply, will check and review your recommendations

[@OnceUponATechie]

so I have really basic 1080p IPS LCD monitor, it only has picture modes like cinema, gaming, reading, and a few more basic ones. How can I color caliberate that? Is that color caliberation device necessary or is there any other "cheaper" way to do it?

[@PremiereGal]

Great question! In that case you would need to get one of those color calibration devices that run for $150-$399. In that case though, I would recommend getting the downgraded ASUS monitor that costs $399 (on sale now) and includes rec709 and dcip3. link in my descriptopn!

[@eunjochoi675]

Hello could you tell me the song name which started at 0:48 ?

[@turinhorse]

umm phones are default Color Accurate device to compare to?

[@PremiereGal]

Yep, the latest smartphones have incredible color accuracy! I was shocked too to learn that they can come in handy!

[@SimplyV3rna]

@@PremiereGalWhen we deliver photos and videos for clients, we always look at the digital album using our phones as part of the workflow Before sending to clients.😂

[@brightboxstudio]

Yes. If you look at the phone display accuracy measurements on review sites like DisplayMate, Tom’s Guide, AnandTech, or others, you’ll find that today’s phones, especially the premium ones, have very good color accuracy out of the box. The average phone display today is of much higher quality and stability than the computer displays we were using not that many years ago. It may also be in part because of phone displays also going wide gamut and HDR, because displaying that type of content properly requires tighter quality control. The other side of this is that you need to check the video on a phone anyway, just like music audio engineers always listen to their work in cars and on low-end equipment just to make sure it still sounds OK on those, since it is the non-audiophile equipment that is by far the most common.

[@anilaboutme]

Thanks. Can you explain if the "display color managed" in PP should be turned on or off? I calibrate my monitor and when used PP it looks better to me but in Windows on media players it looks over satured. On my phone on YT it looks like in PP with DCM turned on. According to your video I should leave it in as phones are more accurate?

[@PremiereGal]

I need to look into this!

[@anilaboutme]

@@PremiereGal Yes I would looooove to know what the best option is. Thanks!

[@maluka35]

thanks mam

[@PremiereGal]

Most welcome 😊

[@zaraarali7491]

6:30 lol my PC ,mobile,tv,sofa,bed,chair,table,spoon,plate,fridge,Ac is barely reaching total price of 3000$ lol you have a monitor of that Price 🤣😭! And I am a video Editor for last 5 years!

[@PremiereGal]

This is why I suggested another option for $399, see the full video! 😅 (as well as links and info in decription box)

[@vishnutkongad]

07:47 Thank you 🤣🤣🤣

[@7SNProd]

🎉❤❤love yu

[@vincentsequeira3723]

❤❤👌👌👍👍

[@Fancytater22]

so......HOW do i calibrate my monitor!?!?! use fuggin preseets??

[@PremiereGal]

You need to get one of those calibration devices I talk about if your monitor doesn't have a built-in calibrator.