Wide Gamut display and Premiere CS3 - what to do?

[FBAS]

I guess more and more people are having wide gamut displays nowadays with full AdobeRGB support - there are hardly any good, large monitors that are sRGB only, and there will be even less in the future, so real color management is becoming more and more important.

I got myself a new monitor recently, a very nice Dell 2709W 27" PVA panel with full AdobeRGB suppport. I also bought a Spyder 3 Pro to calibrate it. According to a test I read, this monitor is near perfect when calibrated in AdobeRGB, but it's only just okay when limited to its sRGB mode.

Now my still picture workflow is working well with AdobeRGB, my DSLR, Lightroom, Photoshop, even Win7 picture viewer are capable of interpreting color profiles, and everything is fine.

However Premiere CS3 doesn't seem to have any color management and colors become oversaturated. Is there anything I can do about it except make another .icm profile (sRGB) with Spyder and switch to that profile every time I use Premiere?

I'm really new to all this color management stuff and I'd like to know what you are doing, what are your strategies/workflow to display correct colors on wide gamut monitors with editing software that is apparently unable to use color profiles.

 

[Demistate]

As of now Premiere Pro only supports sRGB. You cant tell it to correct for a different monitor profile. I would suguest that you get a secondary monitor hooked up to your PC that is profiled for sRGB and display the video fullscreen to that monitor.