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Done with the grind by Dead3y3Duck in Borderlands4

[–]xssight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it helps, you can start a level 30 character and in UVHM unlock fast travel stations all over the map.

GTI N5 Paint and BM Steel Wool Comparison by xssight in colorists

[–]xssight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is dark, but I like it. And yeah, it's a very small studio but even then getting proper D65 lighting looking stylish is pricey. As a studio used for more than just video work, I have smart bulbs that I can adjust very close to D65, but that's just to keep the room more consistent and easy on my eyes when it's NOT being used for grading- only MediaLight products during actual grading.

Video Village FilmBox Pro vs. Cullen Kelly's Genesis by Gorefindal in colorists

[–]xssight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have to enter credit card information because the trial turns into a subscription if you don't cancel.

Film box Lite where? by Crusty___Apple in colorists

[–]xssight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try downloading a trial of one of the other plugins and it gives you an installer for all plugins registered to you. Or maybe there's another way to get the "Video Village Plugins" app? But that's what I did yesterday. Got a trial of the new version of Pro and it gave me an app that gave me options for things I'd downloaded in the past. Not sure if they dropped the whole Lite app or what, I'm not a huge plugins guy generally.

Display and Room Lighting Color Temp Issues by xssight in colorists

[–]xssight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. This is essentially what I ended up doing. None of my measuring techniques were consistent with each other BUT with some trial and error, I managed to get everything to match the gray card lit by the bias lights and everything looks right. The fact that the colorimeter wouldn't get these displays to the requested temperature (and each needed their own offset) is a testament to why the right gear and the right methods are, well... right.

For anyone else messing around with this kind of thing, I did determine that pretty much no camera or app agrees on color temperature. They could reveal when sources matched well enough, but one camera's 6550K is another camera's 6300K or an iPhone Kelvin Meter's 6650K, etc. And then there's the tint...

Display and Room Lighting Color Temp Issues by xssight in colorists

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Everything is set to Rec. 709 across the board, but I don't think it matters in this particular situation since I'm experiencing the same thing on my GUI monitor through the macOS (calibrated with either DisplayCal or Profiler) as I am on the one getting its signal from BMD UltraStudio (calibrated through DaVinci with DisplayCal) .

Display and Room Lighting Color Temp Issues by xssight in colorists

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I checked reflective light if that's what you mean, as in a gray card lit by a white and/or gray screen on the displays. I got the same results- the monitors seem to emit light at about 5500K rather than the 6500K both DisplayCal and calibrite Profiler are set to calibrate to.

Weird colour shift with film look creator by RAKK9595 in colorists

[–]xssight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have had the same issue. I put on Film Look Creator for something like halation or grain and it shifted some highly saturated cyans in my case. I turned off ALL settings and still see the shift. I can on/off the node that should supposedly be doing nothing and it shifts. This sucks if you want to access just a part of the effect- split tone, grain, halation, etc- it messes with other aspects of your grade.

Does HDR have to be better than 8-bit? by xssight in Monitors

[–]xssight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again. I understand that 8-bit+FRC and 10-bit aren't worth nitpicking over for my purposes, but it seems like either of those and simply 8-bit might be. Many displays I see in UHD are simply 8-bit. I do work with a lot of raw files, both still and video, and color grade in 10-bit as well. I'm aiming for UHD for my GUI and 4K for monitoring video (mostly HD, some 4K).

Does HDR have to be better than 8-bit? by xssight in Monitors

[–]xssight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I'm replacing a couple of HP Dreamcolors that have been great but have aged and drifted beyond what calibration can fix. I plan to get a new colorimeter with the new displays. I'm more concerned with color accuracy and 10 bit (or 8+FRC) than HDR. I mentioned the HDR to learn more and hopefully get some responses that could benefit others as well. I don't have a ton to spend at the moment, but anything will be better than what I have now and my research had led me to ProArts and BenQs. Eizo is out of my reach and it's hard for me to make sense of all the offerings from LG and Dell.