monitors and image brightness...

[KuriousJorj]

I'm assuming my problem is due to an improperly calibrated monitor, and just confirming with you folks.

Anyhow, my images all look great on my monitor when people watch the preview images, or even the DVD preview on DVDA2...

But when people actually watch their DVD's of my short films on their tv's, the image look's "video-ish," losing the film-like look it has on my monitor.

I believe a large part of this is because the image looks brighter on various tv's than it does on my monitor; my monitor might be set too dark. (I once had a video game that had me calibrate the gamma, and when it was set to 'correct,' everything on my computer appeared way too light for my liking; yet maybe it was correct?)

So is my losing of the filmlook probably a monitor problem?

thanks!

 

[Mike_Donis]

Re: monitors and image brightness...

It also could just as likely be that their TV's are calibrated too bright - but it really doesn't matter much.

There isn't much you can do about that - if you calibrate your monitor with colour bars, your image will be as true as it can be. There unfortunately isn't much you can do regarding other people's television set ups- but you can make sure that it's at least the way it's supposed to be

 

[Rush]

Re: monitors and image brightness...

Do you mean that you are judging color on a computer monitor or a production monitor? ??? Computer monitors, even when calibrated, tend to appear darker than the real video, because they can show a much greater latitude of color and gray values than regular TV's or preview monitors. They also look more filmy for similar reason, and the motion rendering isn't as fast as a regular TV, so they look more like they have filmlike motion blur during fast movement. TV's tend to blow out highlights more, and darken the shadows, make things more contrasty. You may be experiencing that uncomfortable loss of midtone detail and color definition. I would hook up another DV device (please not your DVX ) to the computer and then hook up a real TV or preview monitor to it, so you can get a real idea of what your video looks like. Then you can calibrate that TV to bars and color correct on that monitor, not the computer monitor.