Color Grading Hardware | Intro to Color Part 3

Color accuracy is paramount for color grading. And many things can affect this from room lighting to wall color to computer hardware and setup. In this article we discuss what's needed for an accurate grading system including bypassing the GPU, display capabilities and display calibration.

I’ve already discussed what’s required for a color grading room that won’t break the bank. If you missed it, check out our grading room post. Now we need to talk hardware requirements. Because like it or not, accurate grading involves more than just a nice computer and display. And when I say hardware needed for grading with Resolve, we’re not even talking about fancy tools like panels. The items discussed here are just to get us grading accurately.

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[artdoneus]

By far the most useful series for this stuff on the web been searching all over no one explains step by step . thank you subbed!!

[im_gldn]

Saw your post in the FB group, i would like you go over your method of calibrating the monitor yourself with display cal. Interested in the settings and results you deem important.

[YamilSunRay]

Color grading is like magic.. and money is its mana 😂😂😂 But we're loving it!!!

[KikiMartinez-yh]

Hello! I was wondering if you have a video on lut boxes?

[erikgouletphoto]

Love your explanation of the hardware. I am spending so much effort in monitor specs, I dont pay attention to the video signal chain.

I am limited on budget and aiming to go with BMD monitor 3G. Grading with a 27inch 1080p reference monitor, will my 4K videos suffer from a bad grade? My projects are for client that will use un website and social media, but some are requesting 4K renders.

[NoCommentComments]

Thanks for the info, the DisplayCAL way is genius! But a lot discussions online about DisplayCAL crashing unexpectly on macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, I still couldn't make it launching, any advice?

[TashaCaufield]

Thanks for another great video! Quick question: I just bought a new laptop and when I play back videos in the edge browser or on my phone the color grade changes/becomes warmer in the first half of a second of the video, (but in Davinci or my Windows media player it remains consistent). Online, I can get it to play back in a consistent color grade if I toggle the Enhance Video feature, but that's not really an option in other scenarios, (like playing it back on my phone). Furthermore, since the color grades keep shifting I'm not sure what to grade for... Based on my research so far, I'm guessing it has something to do with my GPU and possibly the new AI video enhancement features online and with Nvidia GPUs etc, but I'm at a complete loss. If none of this makes sense, I understand, as I don't quite understand it myself 😅

[Hand_Held_Productions]

I have the Macbook M1 Air, and i was wondering how to setup two monitors with Davinci, since the M1 Air "allows" only one external display. I was wondering how i can accomplish that, using UltraStudio-Monitor-3G for the reference monitor, and having another monitor for the timeline etc, and not using the 12" macbook M1 air display for that

[Hand_Held_Productions]

Another question (sorry :) ). What do you think or have any personal experience for using latest LG OLED TVs (C2, C3, C4 of 42"-48") as Color Reference Monitor. Seems they used by many Hollywood studios lately, at least as customer Reference Monitor, but not only.

[russtvmedia]

I already have the BMD DeckLink 4K Extreme card I used in my Mac Pro. I moved over to a M2 Ultra. Do you think it would be worth it to use my DeckLink card in an expansion case? I was thinking of getting the Mercury Helios 3S. My other problem is DisplayCal crashes when I open it. I read many places that under Sonoma it will not work. Have you found a work around to get it to work?

[McDudes]

So a lutbox isn't needed or a monitor with built in lut support?