![]() ![]() Your video will look way cooler than it was when you edited it. Just say your screen is calibrated to D55, you export, then watch the video on a D55 TV screen. Why? Well because most consumers like cooler-looking colors and they sell better in Best-Buy (I wish I was kidding). The standard in film is 6500k (D65), however, almost all displays are set to a cooler white point of D55 or even D50. 709 displays the same amount of colors as sRGB yet it has a defined gamma of 2.4 (BT.1886), a peak luminance (brightness) of 100 nits, and a D65 white point. 709 is the standard for all SDR video productions. sRGB does not have defined gamma, brightness, or white point (white balance basically) so you can have 2 displays that are graded to sRGB but look completely different as those other 2 variables are not defined. Should you grade in sRGB then since that’s what your devices are? Well… no. Your iPad and iPhone use sRGB for example. Because of this, the only thing you need to be aware of is the fact that any content you create will look good on an sRGB display which is what most modern consumer displays use. sRGB isn’t used in video post-production. SRGB is the most common color gamut developed primarily for graphics. No color gamut is better than the other, each color gamut has its own use in production. There are 4 main color gamuts that you will encounter in post-production. As amazing as HDR is, it is best left to cinema productions for now. ![]() HDR (high dynamic range) is extremely complicated, there isn’t a single way of doing things, and HDR requires a lot of special (and expensive) equipment. For the sake of this article, I will be covering SDR (standard dynamic range) workflows. To understand why you need to have a color-accurate monitor, you first need to understand color spaces and why they are important. Now you have to spend hours “blind coloring” hoping that the changes you are having to make will look decent on your iPhone and… everyone else’s devices. Let’s change that.Ĭolor gamut, monitors, and calibration tools. That yellow is now a disgusting orange and your color grade has an overpowering teal shift that makes your video look like it was graded using Microsoft paint. You export, airdrop the file to your iPhone, and… it looks like garbage. Everything about your edit is just the way you envisioned. That color grade you spent hours meticulously crafting and the shade of yellow you chose for your titles is just right. Your edit looks beautiful and the colors, are perfect. Accessories: Calibration tools and video outputs.The High-End Solution: SmallHD OLED 22″ 4K Reference Monitor.The best monitors for editing and color grading. ![]() Color gamut, monitors, and calibration tools. ![]()
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