All language subtitles for Procolor_C03_L2a_Monitor

The next thing that's really important
with kind of your hardware setup

when it comes to color grading is picking
a good we've all kind of sat down,

you know, maybe Grandma's computer
and it just has a really junky monitor.

You want to make sure
that whatever monitor

that you're using for color
grading is actually showing you all

the information and monitors
range from a couple hundred dollars

all the way
to a tens of thousands of dollars.

But the big deal is this You want to make
sure that you have a high quality screen

and then it can actually show
all the colors that you're feeding to it

and that you have a high quality way to
actually send that signal to the monitor.

And you also want to make sure
that the monitor is calibrated.

So let's take a second and get
really nerdy about how colors work.

Once you've been around color
a little bit,

you'll start to see a chart,
something like this.

This represents pretty much
all of the visible colors of light,

and depending on the chart, there will be
some kind of triangle here in the middle,

the triangle is pretty much what range of
colors can a certain color space handle?

Probably the most common color space
when it comes to color

grading would be rec seven or nine,
which is what this is.

Rex 709 is kind of a standard
for how many colors

a TV or a computer monitor can reproduce.

And you'll notice
there are a lot of colors

on this little horseshoe
that are outside of this triangle.

So colors sort of in this spectrum aren't
actually able to be reproduced

by the monitor.

Now, the colors on this chart
aren't the actual colors.

This is just kind of representation
of them because you wouldn't

actually be able to see them
if they couldn't be seen on the monitor.

That gets confusing,
but the long and short of it is this

You want to make sure that
whatever monitor you have will show you

all of the colors that are possible for
whatever color space you're outputting to.

If you're doing something for the web
or even for broadcast TV,

that's going to be rec seven or nine.

If you're doing something for HDR,
that would be rec 2020, which is this,

this little triangle here.

And there's also dci-p3,
which is the color

space used in like cinema projectors
and movie theaters and things like that.

So a movie theater can actually show
a little bit more color than your TV can,

and an HDR TV
can show more colors than that.

So if you're making something
that's going to go to the movie theater,

you want to make sure that whatever
you're looking at your images on

can actually handle all of the colors
that you need.

For most of us, that's going to be rec
seven or nine, which is really good

because it's pretty easy to find a monitor
that can actually show

all of those colors.

Something like this monitor from Ben

Cue is a really good solution
and it says right on here

it can handle 100% of rec 709 This is
actually the monitor that I'm using

and I've been really happy with it.

This also actually comes calibrated
from the factory,

which is really great
because out of the box

you're going to have a pretty darn
good solution if you hook it up correctly.

The other thing you're going to
want is a high quality way to hook this

monitor up,
which I would recommend a card like this.

This is a Blackmagic design mini monitor.

It's just a card that goes in the back
of your PC and it has a very high quality

HDMI output and the colors aren't
adjusted by windows or anything like that.

It's just a straight HDMI output.

And so what comes out of here is what
is actually being used inside of resolve.

And resolve plays
nice with the card like this.

You can have it
give you a full screen preview

on this HDMI and it's designed to work
beautifully.

Again, this is what I have in my system.

It works very well.

You can just hook up a regular monitor
to your graphics card,

but sometimes Windows does
all kinds of fancy color management stuff

which can mess with your image
and you want to remove as many factors

as you can
that would mess with your image.

So this is a really high quality,
easy way to do that 145 bucks,

but a very, very good solution
if you're wanting to get into color.

The other thing that you're going
to want to do is calibrate your monitor.

And the very best way to do
that is with a probe.

So there are a few different probes
out there. I have this one.

This is like a little camera
that hangs on the front of your monitor

and it looks at a series of color
patches and compares

where they should be to
what your monitor is actually producing.

And it will allow you
to adjust the colors of your monitor

to be exactly how they should be.

I'm not going to go into details
about how to do that

because every monitor and setup and probe
and everything is different.

But there are some really good guides.

If you Google your specific color probe
and what you're trying to do,

getting the right

monitor and calibration and hardware
and everything can be really overwhelming.

But if you get it set up right,

you can be confident
that what you're seeing on your monitor

is what the image actually looks like
and that kind of confidence

you really can't be.