The X-Rite i1 Display Pro Plus has become a piece of gear that has SERIOUSLY helped my video editing process. If you're curious about the rest of my gear, watch this: ua-cam.com/video/gq54JlQgAww/v-deo.html
Thanks for the tutorial, I was a bit confused about some of the options like white led and stuff, but this helped me out enough to make sure I didn't miss anything
Thank you! Every video on UA-cam is about photography calibration. Your video is the only one that is about video calibration that I could find! Awesome! I have an old colormuki, but this helps so much! Liked and subscribed!
I’ve been using my benq monitors with eye care for about a year, and I’ve noticed that my videos have a blue tint on other screens. The benq have the blue channel turned down to help take care of your eyes. So I really needed this video from you Jay! Thank you!
I'm a complete noob to color grading, but you don't have to be Steven Spielberg to know that having a standardized and calibrated monitor is absolutely critical. I have a slipshod three monitor setup which consists of an ancient gaming monitor and ultra-cheapie screen, both native 1080p, and my recent purchase of a 34'' Class 21:9 UltraWide 5K2K Nano IPS LED Monitor with HDR 600. Being the total noob, I thought that a color calibrated monitor would include its own calibrator. Ha! I'm a fledgling videographer shooting with Sony's full 4K resolution triple sensor HDR PXW-280Z, and plan to transition this to my own source of employment with weddings, events, commercial work, etc. The X-Rite Display Pro Plus, after a little investigation, jumped out as being a superior colorimeter and calibrator. It's a bit pricier than some of the other recommended devices, but when you've invested as much in your business as I have so far, quibbling over a couple hundred bucks is silly if it means having a near-color perfect 4K image from which to make accurate decisions about grading. I've taken about twenty or so calibrations so far just using X-Rite's software - which is solid and extremely easy to use, even for a noob like me; but it has taken some experimentation with gamma curves and other settings to optimize my output. Meanwhile, LG has their own new calibration tool, the "LG Calibration Studio", which - frustratingly crashed every single time with errors about my usb device connection. Some Googling revealed that LG's software requires only a single monitor connection to your video card, which is an absurd limitation. I cannot even simply disable the other two monitors; I have to physically remove the DP and HDMI cables from the card before the calibration process will complete. However, I stress that LG's software produced *much* more consistent and pleasing results, overall, than X-Rite's software. I suppose that this only makes sense, since LG designed it specifically for this/these monitors. It is also worth noting, as I do not believe it was covered in the video, that the X-Rite Profiler has a rather indispensable feature, only accessible by enabling the "advanced" mode from the home screen. It's really not all that different from the simplified interface, as most of the settings will be familiar or should be left in their default state. However there's one change that you might consider in the advanced workflow, and that is increasing your "patch set size" from "small" (118 patches) to "large" (461 patches). This will most definitely triple your sampling time, but we are talking maybe twenty or so minutes. If you've paid for this powerful little instrument, then you want your monitor to operate at its optimum capacity and accuracy, so who is really going to quibble about twenty minutes? After saving your new ICC profile, you can access the QA screen which will take another reading of your new calibration, and then compare it to its own color reference database, producing a final readout of your "delta-E" deviations. I don't understand many of the specific numbers or their implications, but I *do* know that the goal is to produce a calibration with the least amount of variance from the color gamut standard that you've selected. The LG Calibration Studio also includes a similar QA feature, but provides you with an easy to read chart displaying the referenced gamut's gamma curve with your new results. It's another reason that I prefer using LG's software, even with the pain-in-the-arse cable removal-reconnect requirement. I hope my experience will help out some of you. I'm still researching the details about the actual measurements and what the numbers mean, and I've yet to determine how to use my i1 Display Pro Plus to produce some kind of uniformity between all three of my monitors. Neither of my 1080p monitors, set for convenience's sake to a "fake" 2160p emulation in size - but not not actual resolution, are ever going to "match" the color timing of my 4K monitor, but I'm sure that there's a way to tweak them to an acceptable variance using the device. Setting each monitor's own calibration doesn't seem to help. I'm also learning about HDR and how its use in color grading, and how the i1's calibration works with HDR mode(s), but I'm not finding much documentation on these issues so far. I'd appreciate any advice!
AWESOME! Thank you 🙂👍 I saw your video on useful equipment a few days ago, bookmarked it and wanted to inform later .... and now you have a dedicated video on it - woohoo 🥳
Yo, Jay. I took your advice on the X-Rite Pro Plus. I did things the hard way with the product, because there is a lot of options. But on around the 8th or 9th time calibrating, I did get the right options. The product is equal to your recommendation, it works and I have noticed the changes. Better skin tones, better saturation, colors more "popping". Thanks...
I just did this on my new mac laptop- weirdly it made the screen look kinda warm- in comparision with the RGB 1998 profile. hmm. Not sure if this is how it should be...
A really popular software is DisplayCal - you can download it off the internet. I haven't used it but a lot of pros do. If you want to see sales guys squirm ask them why one calibrator is 100 dollars and the other is 400 dollars. They will of course say one is better. Then say - isn't calibrated either calibrated or not? How can one calibrate better? Which is a great question. How can you sell a monitor calibration device that doesn't calibrate?
🤣🤣🤣 I've heard of DisplayCal before. I havent used it. But I agree. Its either calibrated or its not. The only difference between software and devices should be ease of use, not final results.
I used bt1886 option to calibrate my iMac Pro monitor then the waveform monitor or vector scope in Final Cut Pro do not show color, looks like black and white. Calibrate the monitor with standard mode, everything is fine.
damn I bought the normal pro and now I realised it does not have BT1886... :-/ Calibration still looks fine. But would you suggest to better to it again with the Pro Plus for Video Editing in Resolve?
Great video. Adding the colour profile looks easy. How do I add a profile to my SDI video monitor connected to my Blackmagic Decklink Duo PCI card cos that's where my serious grading is done.
@@HikingWithCooper No. People have been calibrating their SDI broadcast monitors for years but no one has ever been able to tell me how to get the info from the sensor to the monitor. After all, adjusting brightness and contrast just won’t cut it!
The stars on my wrists were done by a friend of mine for free because it was part of his apprenticeship. He liked to dig. It hurt. The stars on my biceps is a longer story. Back when I was in a band we wanted to get similar tattoos as kind of a "band thing," but we didn't want to get the band name tattooed on us just in case the band ended badly. So we each got a pair of nautical starts (we each have a different color, and they're located in different places). I also have "Music Saves Lives" tattooed on my chest, just to change things up a bit.
Since I got my i1 Display Pro Plus from Father Christmas, I have been unable to use the X Rite software. For some reason I was unable to register my product or get the relevant serial number from the packaging that came with the camera. X Rite ignored all my mail. Thankfully I chose the model that allowed it to play nicely with third-party software, such as DisplayCal.😀
@@JayLippman I tried again with the i1 Display Pro PLUS official software. This time it let me install and run it. Got to say, it did a better job than DisplayCal and was a lot quicker doing the task.
Thanks a lot for this. I have a 4K 27" Acer ConceptD CM3271K. I can select User mode with "general color space", sRGB mode, AdobeRGB, HDR, Standard, etc. How do you deal with different modes and the calibration? Should different calibration be performed for different modes? Thanks for clarifying!
No. You need the regular Pro version, not the Pro Plus. Their (CAlman, the software you need for calibrating LGs) approved colorimeter list has a lot of previous-gen devices but no support for a lot of newer ones.
Thanks for this video. (I'm the guy that requested it :D ) A question. Are the calibrations always relying on the software? For example, would you need to re-calibrate it every time you switched machines or reinstalled Windows? That appears the be the case but I'm not entirely sure. Also, Will their software work on Linux?
The profiles are software base, so yes, you will have to re-calibrate when you switch machines...not sure about reinstalling Windows, but I would assume so. As far as Linux is concerned, the device will work but not the software. I recommend getting DisplayCal for Linux. It's free and open source and it works great from what I hear.
Hey Jay can I borrow it !? ;) hahah just joking ... Very useful tool , absolutely ... but it's not cheap ... I mean : once you've calibrated those 3 monitors you work with "the-thing" will end up dusting on the shelf till your next monitor buy... Considering that, the best option is probably to buy it as a group and share it... if that makes sense ... (makes sense to me) Like always thanks a lot for the help Jay, you're such an incredible source man ! Peeeeace
It's actually recommended that you do this every couple of months, especially if you're doing visually creative work, so I think it's totally worth the investment!
Have the same problem. Looks fine on my laptop screen but colour is over saturated when I watch on my phone. I now upload a clip to Canva, and then view it on my phone to check its OK before I upload it to YT. If anyone knows an easier way then please let me know.
When you upload you have to use correct gamma meta tagging so that the device ( iphone for instance ) knows what the intended gamma and color space is to display. This is an almost daily topic in all the FB forums - Resolve is a very powerful program - there are literally more ways to screw it up then to get it right. There is a website called the PostProcess - dot com that has really great information on getting the most consistent settings for most players. But beware that there are players in some browsers and OS that don't have any color management at all. Trying to make your stuff look good in everything is a dog chasing a tail. You compensate for one player and you end up screwing it up for others. So we can only use standards and gauge by standards - which is why you want to calibrate your monitor. If you are doing color grading - you should also use a break out device or card like a BMD decklink as well because the display shouldn't be using the OS restricted colors and needs a clean feed.
For me bt1886 turns out very dark in most programs with black crush on both my PC and Laptop. XY standard white-point equivalent to D65, Native Luminance 120cd, Native Contrast and gamma curve bt1886. Not really sure why this happens, gamma 2.2 looks fine. Using Calibrite latest and i1Display Pro Plus. Any ideas?
what monitor do you have? bt1886 requies high contrast monitors, i managed to get it fairly accurate manualy with black bias on my gaming monitor but i ended with 200 contrast :(
omg i jusgt got the display plus from color checker and that ccprofiler software is a POS it keeps showing me that my rgb levels are correct and that i need to make no modifications to my monitor brecausd my white point is great and peerfect.... and guess what my that white that is being tested is fucking blue. drop that POS software. fuckign shame.
If our monitors are too warm, we get used to it and that white becomes white to us. Correcting the actual color makes the colors "seem" wrong because they're different.
The X-Rite i1 Display Pro Plus has become a piece of gear that has SERIOUSLY helped my video editing process. If you're curious about the rest of my gear, watch this: ua-cam.com/video/gq54JlQgAww/v-deo.html
Thanks for the tutorial, I was a bit confused about some of the options like white led and stuff, but this helped me out enough to make sure I didn't miss anything
Thank you! Every video on UA-cam is about photography calibration. Your video is the only one that is about video calibration that I could find! Awesome! I have an old colormuki, but this helps so much! Liked and subscribed!
Thank you so much. . Because of u i have learnt basics of editing and I am learning ...
Awesome!! I'm so glad this helped!
I’ve been using my benq monitors with eye care for about a year, and I’ve noticed that my videos have a blue tint on other screens. The benq have the blue channel turned down to help take care of your eyes. So I really needed this video from you Jay! Thank you!
Glad I could help dude! Thanks for watching!
I'm a complete noob to color grading, but you don't have to be Steven Spielberg to know that having a standardized and calibrated monitor is absolutely critical. I have a slipshod three monitor setup which consists of an ancient gaming monitor and ultra-cheapie screen, both native 1080p, and my recent purchase of a 34'' Class 21:9 UltraWide 5K2K Nano IPS LED Monitor with HDR 600. Being the total noob, I thought that a color calibrated monitor would include its own calibrator. Ha!
I'm a fledgling videographer shooting with Sony's full 4K resolution triple sensor HDR PXW-280Z, and plan to transition this to my own source of employment with weddings, events, commercial work, etc. The X-Rite Display Pro Plus, after a little investigation, jumped out as being a superior colorimeter and calibrator. It's a bit pricier than some of the other recommended devices, but when you've invested as much in your business as I have so far, quibbling over a couple hundred bucks is silly if it means having a near-color perfect 4K image from which to make accurate decisions about grading.
I've taken about twenty or so calibrations so far just using X-Rite's software - which is solid and extremely easy to use, even for a noob like me; but it has taken some experimentation with gamma curves and other settings to optimize my output. Meanwhile, LG has their own new calibration tool, the "LG Calibration Studio", which - frustratingly crashed every single time with errors about my usb device connection. Some Googling revealed that LG's software requires only a single monitor connection to your video card, which is an absurd limitation. I cannot even simply disable the other two monitors; I have to physically remove the DP and HDMI cables from the card before the calibration process will complete. However, I stress that LG's software produced *much* more consistent and pleasing results, overall, than X-Rite's software. I suppose that this only makes sense, since LG designed it specifically for this/these monitors.
It is also worth noting, as I do not believe it was covered in the video, that the X-Rite Profiler has a rather indispensable feature, only accessible by enabling the "advanced" mode from the home screen. It's really not all that different from the simplified interface, as most of the settings will be familiar or should be left in their default state. However there's one change that you might consider in the advanced workflow, and that is increasing your "patch set size" from "small" (118 patches) to "large" (461 patches). This will most definitely triple your sampling time, but we are talking maybe twenty or so minutes. If you've paid for this powerful little instrument, then you want your monitor to operate at its optimum capacity and accuracy, so who is really going to quibble about twenty minutes? After saving your new ICC profile, you can access the QA screen which will take another reading of your new calibration, and then compare it to its own color reference database, producing a final readout of your "delta-E" deviations. I don't understand many of the specific numbers or their implications, but I *do* know that the goal is to produce a calibration with the least amount of variance from the color gamut standard that you've selected. The LG Calibration Studio also includes a similar QA feature, but provides you with an easy to read chart displaying the referenced gamut's gamma curve with your new results. It's another reason that I prefer using LG's software, even with the pain-in-the-arse cable removal-reconnect requirement.
I hope my experience will help out some of you. I'm still researching the details about the actual measurements and what the numbers mean, and I've yet to determine how to use my i1 Display Pro Plus to produce some kind of uniformity between all three of my monitors. Neither of my 1080p monitors, set for convenience's sake to a "fake" 2160p emulation in size - but not not actual resolution, are ever going to "match" the color timing of my 4K monitor, but I'm sure that there's a way to tweak them to an acceptable variance using the device. Setting each monitor's own calibration doesn't seem to help. I'm also learning about HDR and how its use in color grading, and how the i1's calibration works with HDR mode(s), but I'm not finding much documentation on these issues so far. I'd appreciate any advice!
AWESOME! Thank you 🙂👍
I saw your video on useful equipment a few days ago, bookmarked it and wanted to inform later .... and now you have a dedicated video on it - woohoo 🥳
Hahha I don't even think this was on that list! But if I ever update that video, it will be!
You can get all the features using lower models (like the i1Studio) so long as you use a third party (free) program such as DisplayCAL.
Yo, Jay. I took your advice on the X-Rite Pro Plus. I did things the hard way with the product, because there is a lot of options. But on around the 8th or 9th time calibrating, I did get the right options. The product is equal to your recommendation, it works and I have noticed the changes. Better skin tones, better saturation, colors more "popping". Thanks...
No problem! Glad it worked out for you!
I just did this on my new mac laptop- weirdly it made the screen look kinda warm- in comparision with the RGB 1998 profile. hmm. Not sure if this is how it should be...
A really popular software is DisplayCal - you can download it off the internet. I haven't used it but a lot of pros do. If you want to see sales guys squirm ask them why one calibrator is 100 dollars and the other is 400 dollars. They will of course say one is better. Then say - isn't calibrated either calibrated or not? How can one calibrate better? Which is a great question. How can you sell a monitor calibration device that doesn't calibrate?
🤣🤣🤣 I've heard of DisplayCal before. I havent used it. But I agree. Its either calibrated or its not. The only difference between software and devices should be ease of use, not final results.
3:15 The reason it takes it out of fullscreen is because it moves the calibration window to the monitor you click on fyi
I used bt1886 option to calibrate my iMac Pro monitor then the waveform monitor or vector scope in Final Cut Pro do not show color, looks like black and white. Calibrate the monitor with standard mode, everything is fine.
damn I bought the normal pro and now I realised it does not have BT1886... :-/
Calibration still looks fine. But would you suggest to better to it again with the Pro Plus for Video Editing in Resolve?
Great video. Adding the colour profile looks easy. How do I add a profile to my SDI video monitor connected to my Blackmagic Decklink Duo PCI card cos that's where my serious grading is done.
Did you ever find an answer to this? I'll be using a Decklink 4k mini. Would be cool to hear how / if you got it to work!
@@HikingWithCooper No. People have been calibrating their SDI broadcast monitors for years but no one has ever been able to tell me how to get the info from the sensor to the monitor. After all, adjusting brightness and contrast just won’t cut it!
Thanks! Very helpful!
No problem! Glad I could help!
Bro did you work on the ocean? What's the story behind the tattoos.
Thanks for all your lessons
The stars on my wrists were done by a friend of mine for free because it was part of his apprenticeship. He liked to dig. It hurt. The stars on my biceps is a longer story. Back when I was in a band we wanted to get similar tattoos as kind of a "band thing," but we didn't want to get the band name tattooed on us just in case the band ended badly. So we each got a pair of nautical starts (we each have a different color, and they're located in different places). I also have "Music Saves Lives" tattooed on my chest, just to change things up a bit.
Since I got my i1 Display Pro Plus from Father Christmas, I have been unable to use the X Rite software. For some reason I was unable to register my product or get the relevant serial number from the packaging that came with the camera. X Rite ignored all my mail.
Thankfully I chose the model that allowed it to play nicely with third-party software, such as DisplayCal.😀
I've heard good things about DisplayCal!
@@JayLippman I tried again with the i1 Display Pro PLUS official software. This time it let me install and run it. Got to say, it did a better job than DisplayCal and was a lot quicker doing the task.
Oh nice! Glad you got it to work!
@@JayLippman The calibration makes me look loveley in my latest UA-cam masterpiece. Not 🤣
Display Pro Plus shines with display cal on low calibration you get better gray scale , official software its way too fast
Thanks a lot for this. I have a 4K 27" Acer ConceptD CM3271K. I can select User mode with "general color space", sRGB mode, AdobeRGB, HDR, Standard, etc. How do you deal with different modes and the calibration? Should different calibration be performed for different modes? Thanks for clarifying!
Does this work with a LG OLED?
No. You need the regular Pro version, not the Pro Plus. Their (CAlman, the software you need for calibrating LGs) approved colorimeter list has a lot of previous-gen devices but no support for a lot of newer ones.
Thanks for this video. (I'm the guy that requested it :D )
A question. Are the calibrations always relying on the software? For example, would you need to re-calibrate it every time you switched machines or reinstalled Windows? That appears the be the case but I'm not entirely sure.
Also, Will their software work on Linux?
The profiles are software base, so yes, you will have to re-calibrate when you switch machines...not sure about reinstalling Windows, but I would assume so. As far as Linux is concerned, the device will work but not the software. I recommend getting DisplayCal for Linux. It's free and open source and it works great from what I hear.
So how often would you need this tool? This seems like something that could be rented out.
I would recommend doing this about once a month or once every couple of months. Renting it out would end up being more expensive over time.
Hey, great video, what program do you use to record your screen?
I just starting using Wondershare Demo Creator. Takes a while to render, but it works great otherwise!
Hey Jay can I borrow it !?
;) hahah just joking ... Very useful tool , absolutely ... but it's not cheap ... I mean : once you've calibrated those 3 monitors you work with "the-thing" will end up dusting on the shelf till your next monitor buy...
Considering that, the best option is probably to buy it as a group and share it...
if that makes sense ... (makes sense to me)
Like always thanks a lot for the help Jay, you're such an incredible source man !
Peeeeace
It's actually recommended that you do this every couple of months, especially if you're doing visually creative work, so I think it's totally worth the investment!
Have the same problem. Looks fine on my laptop screen but colour is over saturated when I watch on my phone. I now upload a clip to Canva, and then view it on my phone to check its OK before I upload it to YT. If anyone knows an easier way then please let me know.
Calibrating your screen will help with that. You can use this on your laptop.
When you upload you have to use correct gamma meta tagging so that the device ( iphone for instance ) knows what the intended gamma and color space is to display. This is an almost daily topic in all the FB forums - Resolve is a very powerful program - there are literally more ways to screw it up then to get it right. There is a website called the PostProcess - dot com that has really great information on getting the most consistent settings for most players. But beware that there are players in some browsers and OS that don't have any color management at all. Trying to make your stuff look good in everything is a dog chasing a tail. You compensate for one player and you end up screwing it up for others. So we can only use standards and gauge by standards - which is why you want to calibrate your monitor. If you are doing color grading - you should also use a break out device or card like a BMD decklink as well because the display shouldn't be using the OS restricted colors and needs a clean feed.
For me bt1886 turns out very dark in most programs with black crush on both my PC and Laptop. XY standard white-point equivalent to D65, Native Luminance 120cd, Native Contrast and gamma curve bt1886. Not really sure why this happens, gamma 2.2 looks fine. Using Calibrite latest and i1Display Pro Plus. Any ideas?
what monitor do you have? bt1886 requies high contrast monitors, i managed to get it fairly accurate manualy with black bias on my gaming monitor but i ended with 200 contrast :(
hi trump
no explanation why you use certain settings. I could perfectly do everything myself just to follow default settings. waste of time, sorry.
omg i jusgt got the display plus from color checker and that ccprofiler software is a POS it keeps showing me that my rgb levels are correct and that i need to make no modifications to my monitor brecausd my white point is great and peerfect.... and guess what my that white that is being tested is fucking blue. drop that POS software. fuckign shame.
If our monitors are too warm, we get used to it and that white becomes white to us. Correcting the actual color makes the colors "seem" wrong because they're different.
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