Sorry, not necessrily the best forum for that, but I think a lot of you know lot more than me regarding colors.
My problem is to know what to do regarding contrast and saturation for customers looking video files (mp4, wmv, mov) on PCs and MACs. We use 3dsmax/Vray/Nuke then PremierePro to generate end movie file. We are on win7 pro x64, calibrated with i1display pro. Actually, only a few applications are color aware, like photoshop, xnview, firefox but really not many. So, 3dsmax vfb, nuke (in sRGB without vlut), and finally video players like windows media player aren't color aware. So, the problem : Viewed in photoshop or xnview our files are a bit off (desaturated, less contrasty), but once in windows media player they are right (if we do it like this in Nuke). Then, VLC player, wich use yuv-rgb nvidia accleration, is desaturated and less contrasty, not due to color awarness but to nvidia hardware unfidelity. So, finally, what would be the correct way of thinking about all this ? 1 - Get good grading regarding calibration, and having wmp and vlc wrong ? 2 - Get 'wrong' grading to ensure wmp will play like we want it, but then vlc will be wrong anyway due to nvidia hardware yuv ? I think our customers plays generally on portable PCs with wmp so actually we are more like 2. But I really would like to know how you would deal with such issues. I'm aware we can't control how shitty is customer screen (uncalibrated, contrasty to hell etc) but how to be nearer the best ? Thanks for any enlighting point of view [Wink] ------------------------ R&D/Technical Director | www.kreaction.com i7 3930K, 16Gb, GTX 580 3Go, SSD cache, win 7 pro x64
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