Hope you guys enjoyed this video and look forward to more! Don't forget to expand the video description for all the links referenced in the video and more information. Thanks everyone who joined for the premiere, I've never done one of those before and it was a blast talking in chat through the entire first run of the video 👍
Thank you so much for making this video! I have already calibrated my display, it was pretty easy thanks to your video 😂 been subscribed for almost 10 years now... Crazy how quick stuff has came...
This is a great video and I am really happy to see you using DisplayCal. Basically everything you did is spot on. However, one mistake you made is on setting the brightness. The center part of the brightness meter isn't a real "target", it's just the measured brightness at the start of the calibration process. This is because in the calibration tab, you had "white level" set to "as measured" instead of a specified cd/m2 level. The "set white point" dialog box after measuring the ambient light level only affected the color temperature calibration, not the brightness. So to clarify, when the brightness level dropped 12%, that wasn't dropping from any real standardized target, only from the starting brightness. In the future, I would recommend changing "white level" from "as measured" to 80-100 nits for a dark room, and 120-150 for a bright room. However, if your room is as bright as yours, you might want to go higher.
I just bought a new 144Hz monitor. Thank you so much for this, I've been battling with settings on my monitor for ages and had stupidly ignored my operating system graphics settings. Thank you for enlightening me.
While I do miss your consistent videos I will say that I'm quite pleased when you do come out with one because it's always either 1.awesome, 2. incredibly useful, or 3. both.
Hey Jerry, thanks for the awesome video! I know you're worried about rambling on forever, or having a video that's "too long", but just go for it. For sure it bothers you, but really, it is very entertaining!
Oh, I don't mind the rambling and quite like it. It's the editing time I don't like. Editing this video was like editing 4 separate 10-minute videos. Gotta be efficient to make all this work, but I wanted my first video back to be completely unrestricted and zero worries just sharing my experience.
Are you familiar with Operation Talpiot and Unit 8200? The Israelis have back doored every chip. It’s spying to the max, and stealing American technology.
I don't even have a need to calibrate my monitor, but I'm just so stoked that you are making videos again. You are a wealth of knowledge and I fucking love learning from you! Keep it up man, you rock!
Not a bad video, even though both of us don't really know what the hell most of this stuff is, you got enough info in here to help someone get it done. Now then, we need more of these, this kind of stuff is pretty awesome man.
I watched this to the end even though I probably never gonna calibrate my screens wit a tool. (My eyes always were good enough for what I'm using it.) Personality is just key with these "infomercials". Any of the big companies should hire you to talk about their recent innovations in places like CES or Gamescom...etc. This level of fluid, intelligent commentary is just unique.
I wish you good health, from a person who is still walking on both legs which has had deep vein thrombosis with 7 blood clots removed from my leg and body, as well as thrombosis in my lungs 6 months later!!! Thank you for your video its really helped me.
Glad to see you back. Outside of Video editing those of us superior beings with multi monitor getting all of them having the same color settings is pretty key and something I think too many people skip doing/dont care. The biggest thing that got me to realize how important this stuff is was buying a LG monitor with 99% SRGB and watching Star Wars. I've seen it a billion times but boy on that monitor it felt like the first time with how good it looked on a 99%rgb monitor. Then I watched Avatar......then I bought 2 more of those monitors and have such hate for my 4k TV now.
I calibrated my monitors now with this program and to be honest I did not expect any big difference from the i1 program, but holly cow was I wong!! The blacks are way more black now and stuff just looks so much better!
The i1 program just doesn't seem to do a very good job for some reason. I'm sure there is a way to fix it but my experience always sucked compared to DisplayCal.
This explains why this video looks mega on point colour wise, upgrading to a calibrated sRGB display was probably the best thing I ever did for my computer.
Hey Barnacules, Cool Vid! Hope you don't mind a bit of feedback! You should never make White Balance adjustments starting with the 'Green' Channel. The reason being that Green is typically directly tied to 'luminance' as well. The proper way to have made that adjustment would have been to raise Red and Blue. The only time you touch green is when you want to start making corrections to the gamma curve as well. Side Note to other viewers: Not all Samsung TVs will push green. This is a manufacturing variance. One might push green and another might push red. So If you watched this and own a Samsung TV, don't think just 'lowering green' will automatically make your TV more 'accurate'. Never copy somebody else's white balance adjustments. This is worse than copying someone else's overclock settings. "Output levels" should match whatever HDMI color range your TV/monitor is set to. If this isn't done correctly, you ARE GOING TO HAVE MAJOR ISSUES. It's not something to gloss over for proper calibration. Not setting it correctly could result in either VERY NOTICEABLE crushed blacks and whites or an extremely washed out image. Depending on how it's set up incorrectly. On Samsung TVs, this is typically 'HDMI Black Level' under the picture setting submenus. "Low" = TV RGB (16-235) while "normal" = Full Range RGB 0-255. Note that there is not a perceivable difference between the 2 standards as long as you properly match device + Display settings for this. PC Monitors meant for PCs are typically set as "Full Range". Most TVs are typically "Limited Range" out of the box. Most modern displays let you change this in their menus. In Windows, it's also important to match this setting in your display driver control panel. For Nvidia: It's under "resolution" in the Nvidia Control Panel. Some Subjective Opinion: DisplayCal3 is all well and good and fine if you only care about good color in the windows desktop environment. As it just creates an ICC Profile that compensates for the errors of your display. But if you want to calibrate your TV for ALL content, including game consoles and full-screen games, I recommend another Open Sourse piece of software called HCFR, which is a fairly robust display measurement software and completely free. It also works well with that i1Display Pro. Using that piece of software you do a proper 10-point or 20-point white balance calibration and 'color management' if your TV has it as well.. though typically unnecessary if you do a 10/20-point white balance calibration. Sometimes this is best done in the service menu, then the correction and changes will reflect across all of your inputs all at once. This is way more involved and takes hours to do, but if you're up for it, it's the ultimate 'geeky' way to get "perfect" colors from your display.
Great comment bro. I totally agree with you. I am about to buy a Display ColorChecker (the new name of X-Rite) in order to calibrate a LG OLED 2017 model for gaming porpuses. Unfortunatelly the 2017 models does not support AUTOCAL functions (hardware calibration). And the other problem is that the game mode does not let me calibrate the white balance, just other modes like cinema has these options so, I got 2 questions for you: 1.- Should I change my input to PC type, in order to force my tv to monitor mode and calibrate in that mode for gaming? 3.- Or Should I calibrate my tv using service mode? Thanks a lot.
Glad to see your videos back! I know it's a lot to ask, but I would love to see the 3D printing videos back, maybe with some DIY 3D printers or something :)
OMG!!!! how did you know i was researching how to do this trying to lift my photography game and you sir have great timing also i would like to point out to others most good camera shops have rentals of these for a decent price if you don't want to shell out for one
Never even considered a rental, that makes a lot of sense actually since you really only need to calibrate maybe twice a year unless you're super hardcore.
Works with my ~decade old huey I got from a thrift store years ago. (original software gave unusable results and was old af) No longer is it junk in a drawer, thanks Barnacules.
Thanks for the video. I was researching monitor calibration. Your video was very helpful. I ordered an i1Display Pro, that arrived yesterday. I downloaded and installed DisplayCal and calibrated my monitor. Easy. Took just lest than 10 minutes.
You mention photographers but you'd be surprised. I know people that do photography as their full time profession that don't even know what a spectrometer/colourimeter is.
Can confirm. Have a pro photographer friend who had no idea about display calibration until I told him about it. Funnily enough my obsession with displays has gotten me into photography xD
I'm an Industrial Printer with 25 years experience. I wouldn't say X-Write is the creme dala creme it's definitely the most popular in Industrial printing, but our Color scanners cost well over a 100 Grand. So that package you hold in your hand is the Most very Basic of color correction you can get with certification. Also keep in mind X-Write goes by Industry Standards every person sees color differently. The X-write will get you to an Industry standard and that's it, it's up to the Individual to tweak the color spectrum to his or her liking. Personally I think it's a waste of money unless someone is using it for color accuracy in a business. just my two cents :-) Thank you for the video and please keep them coming !!!! " Microsoft you SUCK at DPI scaling" LMAO so True. What Video card are using to Drive those monitors? , Curious
Hey Jerry... I do not edit videos, and I am NOT in need to know how to calibrate my monitors... With that said, I watched this video in its entirety, why? because I am a Nerdgasm fan, and I enjoy your content... Of course it is never a bad thing to learn something new... You never know when a friend asked you for help with say calibrating their screens or, doing a triple monitor setup... and want to get all the screens to display things uniformly. Thanks Jerry for putting out such awesome content, looking forward to seeing more.
I have an old Color Munki Smile and I got a new iMac that was running Catalina. Xrite said they weren't going to upgrade the software for 64 bit. The Display Cal you linked to runs on my new iMac and my old meter will work now. That will get me buy until I can get a better meter. Thanks. XRite was saying I would have to upgrade my devise. It took about 15 minutes
Hey barnacules, thanks for letting me know about the open source software. The one that came by default with my i1 could never properly calibrate my display to look correct on 0-255. This actually didn't oversaturate the blacks to an unusable extent. As a photographer, definitely appreciate the help and also screw you for bringing more use out of my old displays. Its not like I was on edge to buy new monitors no nothing like that. ♥
You're very welcome! I was equally frustrated with the default i1 software and hence the reason I waited so long to calibrate again until I knew the proper way to get it done.
Great to see you back. Also, excellent topic. I've been using the Spyder series for years and it's never taken hours to calibrate my monitors and yes, it has really ensured my color work is consistent. Looking forward to more content.
Great video @barnacules. The only problem is that it lead me to waste about 2 hours trying to get THX Tuneup to work with my LG Smart TV, because I'm poor people and don't have a fancy device, lol. In the end, it wouldn't connect and I got nothing accomplished. Oh well, still a great video with some good information.
Hi Jerry, great video, only came to watch as i have lost my red color on my screen, got lots of blue yellow & grey & purple...., come to the conclusion my graphics card is playin up, did the double check, used different screen & lead, still the same, also checked my pc color setting, yup, not moved, however on my , running windows 10, on a tv screen, slide correction for red theres no change, unlike for the green & grey they change, really enjoyed the in depth of everything you said & learned a whole new bunch of stuff, great to see you using a split key board, I use them here as i have big hands & my fingers clash if i use a standard board, all the best, Chas, uk.
AMAZING video and subject, as someone who needs to calibrate his monitor often, and well, is really really nice to see how other people do it... !! (and that's my calibrator, too)
Good to see new content. Commenting to help with SEO type metrics. 😉 Will watch again later to warm up the monitor on my home system then compare the Display Cal software to Datacolor's.
Jerry, your backlight may not be straining as much as you think, at 30:26 in your video (adjust green gain) as you pulled the green down, the brightness was dragging down also..... not a brightness loss, the green was boosting it, adjust backlight after setting rgb color.
I recently decided not to buy a new TV & instead calibrated my 10 yr old Sony Bravia EX500 with a colorimeter, I couldn't be happier with the results, the quality improvements it makes to movies & games cant be overstated, there is a lot of information to take in though & after the first calibration (while great) you find yourself searching for perfection, took about a month to get perfect results but well worth it for a 10th of the cost of a new TV
Another advantage of PC gaming: You can use your ICC color profiles while PC gaming, but not on consoles. Hecc, I even calibrated my GPD Win 2. Handheld PC gaming ftw!
Woooooo fell in love with your video style and setup a long long time ago, and was sad to see the slow down of uploads. Happy you're back, keep up the great work. Loved the ending where you were excited. Makes all us viewers just as excited to see you back! Can't wait to see more of your content! Keep on filming please. Anyways take care!
amazing video huge thanks, also kudos for still rocking Logitech Z5500 they are amazing... had to change mine for Z906 not long ago because of a Sub buzzing.
Good video dude love your long ones where you talk a lot and explain things a lot and actually show stuff rather than just cut the crap out of everything. Can't stand that stuff where its all talk, then you end up with some like this, then u end up with something like this constant cuts all the time.. you actually show what your doing and explain as you are doing it.
Thanks for the info on the monitor calibrating. To help with the blood flow and losing of the weight. Do not eat carbs or meat at least 4 to six hours before you go to sleep. It takes 2-3 hours for the meat to digest. And the carbs slow down the breakdown of the meat And as you k ow about the carbs. ( not going to get into the carb thing. Try to sleep a full 8 hours. This helps in the healing process of the body. Change when you eat your heaviest meal. It should be in the morning and lunch. Dinner should be very light. Walk around or do a treadmill (very light walking nothing heavy) before you go to sleep. This will get the blood flowing and help with healing overnight. The last thing is change your mind set. As much az you love technology love you. And you will see a massive change in your health and how you feel. Self vanity is now your best friend! Once you don't understand self vanity. It is for you. Not y9u telling people how good you look. It's you telling you how good you look and feel. Hope this helps. You give good nerd. And the nerd community needs your nerd-ism (or is it nerd-um). Whichever. Thank you. Robert Jean-Louis. Aka Lordblanca
Alas, DisplayCAL did not work for me. I pushed the boat out and got the _X-Rite i1 Display Pro._ But the resultant calibration left my screen way, way too dark despite using several combinations of Gamma settings and ambient light. In the end I used the _iProfile_ software that came with the device and that got my monitor bang on first time. Now, it's perfect. I was calibrating a brand new _LG 43UD47._
DisplayCAL would not / could not detect my SpdyerX Pro! So I went to their native software and I still was not getting a close calibration of a Dell U2718Q and a Dell U3417W. So I locate the README file and one of the caveats is under Windows OS you need TWO (2) Graphics cards, because Microsoft. No reason other than because... MSOS. =\😠
@@graffitirasto Hi- I originally installed that with no joy. I'll try again. Oh, I have 2 displays - Windows 10 does not support 2 displays w/o 2 GPU Cards. =(
He Never even left away but i understand at its hard to make content when you need to do all kinda stuff in life enyways but im clad at he post videos when he got something i like all his videos even that old Energizer Energi to Go Powered iPhone Case video
@@broo_shs I know that he never left. I watch all of his streams on twitch I was just making a snarky remark. Sorry if that didn't come across in the previous message ☺
I take it for calibrating a TV for movies & console gaming, you're limited to just using that pre~calibration hardware level {on the TV itself} 2 point RGB setting, since obviously you can't create/ save ICC profiles on TVs.
Display cal also allows you to import corrections from the xrite software, thus if they release updates to support more displays, you can import those corrections. Though you need to have the xrite software installed when importing, after that the xrite software is no longer needed. For my displays, I increase the patch count to 2000 or higher, it will make the process take like 2 hours, but you will get a more accurate calibration (lower delta from the standard).
You don't need the software actually installed, you just need it downloaded so you can import corrections from the software. Same thing goes for the Spyder5 colorimeters. For calibrating displays, there's much more to it than increasing patch count. Observer, whitepoint, color temperature, black level, profiling, color cal, color range, etc.
@@excalibur3311 For the white point, I recommend doing a quick verification measurement to get the native white point info to determine how far off you are from D65. Since with backlit displays, the white LED backlight determines the white point, if you correct it via the ICC profile, it makes the entire screen darker by the percentage of deviation you are from the target white point. It is not an issue if you are using a desktop PC and a display that gets brighter than you need, but if brightness is limited or if you are on a laptop, then it is something to avoid if possible, as it will cause you to end up increasing the brightness more than you usually would, thus impacting battery life. Small inaccuracies in color temperature are less of an issue anyway since the human brain does a good job in compensation for minor color temperature differences. Decent quality displays look great even with a low patch count, but for cheap displays, for example, my cheap Asus VS229 display, greatly benefits from a high patch count since cheap displays tend to have strange inconsistencies in their response curves that often get missed at low patch counts, but at higher counts, they get fixed and when you do a large verification test, you don't end up with random peaks in the deltas. I also have a low end netbook (a few of them) since they are extremely cheap, and work decently for basic stuff, e.g., recording audio in quiet environments, and running malware scans on hard drives in a USB 3.0 HDD dock. Anyway to do it just because I can, I did some testing on the display of a Lenovo s21e (horrible display but it is a $120 netbook when it came out originally), and visible improvements can be seen at 500, 1500, 2680, and topping out at around 3500 before no further improvements can be detected.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video and look forward to more! Don't forget to expand the video description for all the links referenced in the video and more information. Thanks everyone who joined for the premiere, I've never done one of those before and it was a blast talking in chat through the entire first run of the video 👍
Thank you so much for making this video! I have already calibrated my display, it was pretty easy thanks to your video 😂 been subscribed for almost 10 years now... Crazy how quick stuff has came...
Awesome, Jerry!!!
Now you need to do a video on using a color card/chart. Good stuff, I'd would have took a hammer to my monitors if it wasn't for my x-rite stuff
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Great video, Jerry!! Missed you! Good to have you back!
This is a great video and I am really happy to see you using DisplayCal. Basically everything you did is spot on. However, one mistake you made is on setting the brightness. The center part of the brightness meter isn't a real "target", it's just the measured brightness at the start of the calibration process. This is because in the calibration tab, you had "white level" set to "as measured" instead of a specified cd/m2 level. The "set white point" dialog box after measuring the ambient light level only affected the color temperature calibration, not the brightness. So to clarify, when the brightness level dropped 12%, that wasn't dropping from any real standardized target, only from the starting brightness. In the future, I would recommend changing "white level" from "as measured" to 80-100 nits for a dark room, and 120-150 for a bright room. However, if your room is as bright as yours, you might want to go higher.
I could listen to you talk nerdy for hours at a time.
Never stop! 👊
I just bought a new 144Hz monitor. Thank you so much for this, I've been battling with settings on my monitor for ages and had stupidly ignored my operating system graphics settings. Thank you for enlightening me.
Holy fkn shit?! Is that an upload??
Love ya Jerry, keep'em coming and let's hit that mil
Yes sir, another one coming soon.
While I do miss your consistent videos I will say that I'm quite pleased when you do come out with one because it's always either 1.awesome, 2. incredibly useful, or 3. both.
@Barnacules OMG! I spent like an hour over the weekend trying to calibrate my monitors. I so needed this! Thanks
Can't wait for more videos! Make them at whatever pace you want, I just want you to know that we'll be right here to watch them.
Hey Jerry, thanks for the awesome video! I know you're worried about rambling on forever, or having a video that's "too long", but just go for it. For sure it bothers you, but really, it is very entertaining!
Oh, I don't mind the rambling and quite like it. It's the editing time I don't like. Editing this video was like editing 4 separate 10-minute videos. Gotta be efficient to make all this work, but I wanted my first video back to be completely unrestricted and zero worries just sharing my experience.
I really enjoyed this video in all its detail. I prefer this style over the crazy quick cuts of a lot of the other tech tubers.
Man I'm super happy that you are back on TH-cam. Please come back for more.
You got it Steven!
This is what i call timing. Just brought a colorimeter from work and Jerry has released a video on calibrating displays! 💖
your tutorials are literally the bests, extremely details and never boring. it shows you perfectly know the subject.
Are you familiar with Operation Talpiot and Unit 8200? The Israelis have back doored every chip. It’s spying to the max, and stealing American technology.
I don't even have a need to calibrate my monitor, but I'm just so stoked that you are making videos again. You are a wealth of knowledge and I fucking love learning from you! Keep it up man, you rock!
Not a bad video, even though both of us don't really know what the hell most of this stuff is, you got enough info in here to help someone get it done.
Now then, we need more of these, this kind of stuff is pretty awesome man.
Barnacules! It looks like you are working out like crazy! It's always good to see you happy and healthy!
god i love barnacules's videos, really wish he made more, i always miss his livestreams
The goal to make a lot more.
@@Barnacules that is the best news i've had all day
I watched this to the end even though I probably never gonna calibrate my screens wit a tool. (My eyes always were good enough for what I'm using it.) Personality is just key with these "infomercials". Any of the big companies should hire you to talk about their recent innovations in places like CES or Gamescom...etc. This level of fluid, intelligent commentary is just unique.
man you are only 67K from 1Mln subs! Thats amazing, keep it up, hope you reach that milestone quick! Been a fan for many years now!
It will drop before it goes up again but I'm dedicated to hitting a million now.
Welcome back baby! You probably recognize me from the streams. Glad to see you back! KEEP IT UP!
Absolutely! Good to see ya!
I wish you good health, from a person who is still walking on both legs which has had deep vein thrombosis with 7 blood clots removed from my leg and body, as well as thrombosis in my lungs 6 months later!!! Thank you for your video its really helped me.
Glad to see you back. Outside of Video editing those of us superior beings with multi monitor getting all of them having the same color settings is pretty key and something I think too many people skip doing/dont care. The biggest thing that got me to realize how important this stuff is was buying a LG monitor with 99% SRGB and watching Star Wars. I've seen it a billion times but boy on that monitor it felt like the first time with how good it looked on a 99%rgb monitor. Then I watched Avatar......then I bought 2 more of those monitors and have such hate for my 4k TV now.
Please come back to TH-cam forever 😭🙏🙏🙏
That's the plan.
@@Barnacules I've not seen you upload consistently for ages now! If that's the plan to come back fully I am sooooooo happy 😊
@Jaqua Brown Did you like your own comment? You did didn't you! I'm glad he's back, you? Not so much.
@Jaqua Brown Lol, that's so weak. My mother died Nov 12th 2012.
@Jaqua Brown WTF 👀
I calibrated my monitors now with this program and to be honest I did not expect any big difference from the i1 program, but holly cow was I wong!!
The blacks are way more black now and stuff just looks so much better!
The i1 program just doesn't seem to do a very good job for some reason. I'm sure there is a way to fix it but my experience always sucked compared to DisplayCal.
This explains why this video looks mega on point colour wise, upgrading to a calibrated sRGB display was probably the best thing I ever did for my computer.
Hey Barnacules,
Cool Vid! Hope you don't mind a bit of feedback!
You should never make White Balance adjustments starting with the 'Green' Channel. The reason being that Green is typically directly tied to 'luminance' as well. The proper way to have made that adjustment would have been to raise Red and Blue. The only time you touch green is when you want to start making corrections to the gamma curve as well.
Side Note to other viewers: Not all Samsung TVs will push green. This is a manufacturing variance. One might push green and another might push red. So If you watched this and own a Samsung TV, don't think just 'lowering green' will automatically make your TV more 'accurate'. Never copy somebody else's white balance adjustments. This is worse than copying someone else's overclock settings.
"Output levels" should match whatever HDMI color range your TV/monitor is set to. If this isn't done correctly, you ARE GOING TO HAVE MAJOR ISSUES. It's not something to gloss over for proper calibration. Not setting it correctly could result in either VERY NOTICEABLE crushed blacks and whites or an extremely washed out image. Depending on how it's set up incorrectly.
On Samsung TVs, this is typically 'HDMI Black Level' under the picture setting submenus. "Low" = TV RGB (16-235) while "normal" = Full Range RGB 0-255.
Note that there is not a perceivable difference between the 2 standards as long as you properly match device + Display settings for this.
PC Monitors meant for PCs are typically set as "Full Range". Most TVs are typically "Limited Range" out of the box. Most modern displays let you change this in their menus.
In Windows, it's also important to match this setting in your display driver control panel. For Nvidia: It's under "resolution" in the Nvidia Control Panel.
Some Subjective Opinion:
DisplayCal3 is all well and good and fine if you only care about good color in the windows desktop environment. As it just creates an ICC Profile that compensates for the errors of your display. But if you want to calibrate your TV for ALL content, including game consoles and full-screen games, I recommend another Open Sourse piece of software called HCFR, which is a fairly robust display measurement software and completely free. It also works well with that i1Display Pro. Using that piece of software you do a proper 10-point or 20-point white balance calibration and 'color management' if your TV has it as well.. though typically unnecessary if you do a 10/20-point white balance calibration. Sometimes this is best done in the service menu, then the correction and changes will reflect across all of your inputs all at once. This is way more involved and takes hours to do, but if you're up for it, it's the ultimate 'geeky' way to get "perfect" colors from your display.
Great comment bro. I totally agree with you. I am about to buy a Display ColorChecker (the new name of X-Rite) in order to calibrate a LG OLED 2017 model for gaming porpuses. Unfortunatelly the 2017 models does not support AUTOCAL functions (hardware calibration). And the other problem is that the game mode does not let me calibrate the white balance, just other modes like cinema has these options so, I got 2 questions for you:
1.- Should I change my input to PC type, in order to force my tv to monitor mode and calibrate in that mode for gaming?
3.- Or Should I calibrate my tv using service mode?
Thanks a lot.
Your workspace is looking very well. Love the Viper GTS Coupé model.
Glad to see your videos back! I know it's a lot to ask, but I would love to see the 3D printing videos back, maybe with some DIY 3D printers or something :)
OMG!!!! how did you know i was researching how to do this trying to lift my photography game and you sir have great timing also i would like to point out to others most good camera shops have rentals of these for a decent price if you don't want to shell out for one
Never even considered a rental, that makes a lot of sense actually since you really only need to calibrate maybe twice a year unless you're super hardcore.
Works with my ~decade old huey I got from a thrift store years ago. (original software gave unusable results and was old af) No longer is it junk in a drawer, thanks Barnacules.
Thanks for the video. I was researching monitor calibration. Your video was very helpful. I ordered an i1Display Pro, that arrived yesterday. I downloaded and installed DisplayCal and calibrated my monitor. Easy. Took just lest than 10 minutes.
Thank you! I was just yesterday starting to research for a cost effective alternative to calibrate my Monitor
Welcome back home, sir....Welcome back.
ohh i miss this kind of videos from you Barnacules
You mention photographers but you'd be surprised. I know people that do photography as their full time profession that don't even know what a spectrometer/colourimeter is.
Can confirm. Have a pro photographer friend who had no idea about display calibration until I told him about it. Funnily enough my obsession with displays has gotten me into photography xD
They must have been lucky to have bought factory calibrated monitors which didn’t veer off with use.
@@sexysilversurfer Nah, just didn't know what he's missing
lol so true Xp
Because when you use a monitor for your pc and not a TV it is automatically calibrated.
great video, bud :)
Just wanna leave this here. Your video about this suicide topíc helped me out a lot...
I am a simple man, I see nerdgasm video. I hit like.
I'm an Industrial Printer with 25 years experience. I wouldn't say X-Write is the creme dala creme it's definitely the most popular in Industrial printing, but our Color scanners cost well over a 100 Grand. So that package you hold in your hand is the Most very Basic of color correction you can get with certification. Also keep in mind X-Write goes by Industry Standards every person sees color differently. The X-write will get you to an Industry standard and that's it, it's up to the Individual to tweak the color spectrum to his or her liking. Personally I think it's a waste of money unless someone is using it for color accuracy in a business. just my two cents :-) Thank you for the video and please keep them coming !!!! " Microsoft you SUCK at DPI scaling" LMAO so True. What Video card are using to Drive those monitors? , Curious
I hope making this video made you happy, because watching this video made me happy. Nice to have you back!
Welcome back, Jerry.
Going through and calibrating the multiple monitors at my home and office workspaces with my new Spyder5 and DisplayCal after this video.
Is it bad that I love any Vid Jerry puts out??!!??
Welcome back dude. Watching you is like taking me back to the good old days on youtube.
Hey Jerry... I do not edit videos, and I am NOT in need to know how to calibrate my monitors... With that said, I watched this video in its entirety, why? because I am a Nerdgasm fan, and I enjoy your content... Of course it is never a bad thing to learn something new... You never know when a friend asked you for help with say calibrating their screens or, doing a triple monitor setup... and want to get all the screens to display things uniformly.
Thanks Jerry for putting out such awesome content, looking forward to seeing more.
I have an old Color Munki Smile and I got a new iMac that was running Catalina. Xrite said they weren't going to upgrade the software for 64 bit. The Display Cal you linked to runs on my new iMac and my old meter will work now. That will get me buy until I can get a better meter. Thanks. XRite was saying I would have to upgrade my devise. It took about 15 minutes
so happy to see you back
This was really interesting! I didn't even notice that it was 40 minutes long...
Keep it up bro, hope you are feeling better!
So happy to see you uploading again Jerry, I miss your videos a lot. Can't wait to see what comes in the future!
Wait what? BarNerd you aren't green? All this time I thought you were green. Honestly dude, you make some of the best tut vids. Keep'em coming.
Hey barnacules, thanks for letting me know about the open source software. The one that came by default with my i1 could never properly calibrate my display to look correct on 0-255. This actually didn't oversaturate the blacks to an unusable extent. As a photographer, definitely appreciate the help and also screw you for bringing more use out of my old displays. Its not like I was on edge to buy new monitors no nothing like that. ♥
You're very welcome! I was equally frustrated with the default i1 software and hence the reason I waited so long to calibrate again until I knew the proper way to get it done.
Great to see you back. Also, excellent topic. I've been using the Spyder series for years and it's never taken hours to calibrate my monitors and yes, it has really ensured my color work is consistent. Looking forward to more content.
Great video @barnacules. The only problem is that it lead me to waste about 2 hours trying to get THX Tuneup to work with my LG Smart TV, because I'm poor people and don't have a fancy device, lol. In the end, it wouldn't connect and I got nothing accomplished. Oh well, still a great video with some good information.
Welcome Back @Barnacules !!!!!!! You look great and im so happy to see you back my man.
Great to see you back on TH-cam, and back on form! Brilliant video!!!
When I heard you telling us about an upload on socials I wasn't expecting a 40-minute monster! Great job, and welcome back :)
Hi Jerry, great video, only came to watch as i have lost my red color on my screen, got lots of blue yellow & grey & purple...., come to the conclusion my graphics card is playin up, did the double check, used different screen & lead, still the same, also checked my pc color setting, yup, not moved, however on my , running windows 10, on a tv screen, slide correction for red theres no change, unlike for the green & grey they change, really enjoyed the in depth of everything you said & learned a whole new bunch of stuff, great to see you using a split key board, I use them here as i have big hands & my fingers clash if i use a standard board, all the best, Chas, uk.
Good to see you back
Barnacules is back !!!!!!!! 2019 is going to be awsome !!!
Good to see you back Jerry!
AMAZING video and subject, as someone who needs to calibrate his monitor often, and well, is really really nice to see how other people do it... !! (and that's my calibrator, too)
JERRY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great to see you back Barnacules, big hug !!!!!
Good to see new content. Commenting to help with SEO type metrics. 😉 Will watch again later to warm up the monitor on my home system then compare the Display Cal software to Datacolor's.
Jerry, your backlight may not be straining as much as you think, at 30:26 in your video (adjust green gain) as you pulled the green down, the brightness was dragging down also..... not a brightness loss, the green was boosting it, adjust backlight after setting rgb color.
I recently decided not to buy a new TV & instead calibrated my 10 yr old Sony Bravia EX500 with a colorimeter, I couldn't be happier with the results, the quality improvements it makes to movies & games cant be overstated, there is a lot of information to take in though & after the first calibration (while great) you find yourself searching for perfection, took about a month to get perfect results but well worth it for a 10th of the cost of a new TV
Shout out to Mrs. Barnacules for bringing Jerry a coffee while he films
Thats what we need, more of these please Mr. Barna Guru . bless us with that Tech wisdom
Tbh this is the best color correction I've seen in your videos
Glad to see more of you on TH-cam, keep'em coming.
Another advantage of PC gaming: You can use your ICC color profiles while PC gaming, but not on consoles. Hecc, I even calibrated my GPD Win 2. Handheld PC gaming ftw!
Awesome video and great to have you back after a while. Jerry you are super talented and keep doing what you love.
He's back!
Welcome back, It is good to see you again in a normal video 👍
Woooooo fell in love with your video style and setup a long long time ago, and was sad to see the slow down of uploads. Happy you're back, keep up the great work. Loved the ending where you were excited. Makes all us viewers just as excited to see you back! Can't wait to see more of your content! Keep on filming please. Anyways take care!
I didn't colour correct my LG panels, but turned off things like sharpness etc... they look so much better! Thanks for the video.
amazing video huge thanks, also kudos for still rocking Logitech Z5500 they are amazing... had to change mine for Z906 not long ago because of a Sub buzzing.
Good video dude love your long ones where you talk a lot and explain things a lot and actually show stuff rather than just cut the crap out of everything. Can't stand that stuff where its all talk, then you end up with some like this, then u end up with something like this constant cuts all the time.. you actually show what your doing and explain as you are doing it.
I dont need color calibration yet here I am watching a 40 minute barnacules video about it.
Thanks for the info on the monitor calibrating. To help with the blood flow and losing of the weight. Do not eat carbs or meat at least 4 to six hours before you go to sleep. It takes 2-3 hours for the meat to digest. And the carbs slow down the breakdown of the meat
And as you k ow about the carbs. ( not going to get into the carb thing. Try to sleep a full 8 hours. This helps in the healing process of the body.
Change when you eat your heaviest meal. It should be in the morning and lunch. Dinner should be very light. Walk around or do a treadmill (very light walking nothing heavy) before you go to sleep. This will get the blood flowing and help with healing overnight. The last thing is change your mind set. As much az you love technology love you. And you will see a massive change in your health and how you feel. Self vanity is now your best friend! Once you don't understand self vanity. It is for you. Not y9u telling people how good you look. It's you telling you how good you look and feel. Hope this helps. You give good nerd. And the nerd community needs your nerd-ism (or is it nerd-um). Whichever.
Thank you.
Robert Jean-Louis.
Aka Lordblanca
happy to see you back to making content jerry! youre looking healthy man. much love and respect
Great to have u back with a true barnacules style video jerry
The best video on this topic that I've seen so far. Thanks for sharing.
The output level is very important at 22.30, your gpu can be set to full or limited and the tv must match this setting,
Correct. And I'd argue that as they're TVs they should both be set to limited.
@@BenMelluish Ya I find 4.4.4 limited works perfect with my lg oled b7. Tv set to low
Good to see you back Barnacules!
Welcome back you look happy and healthy! can't wait for more videos!
Once u hit 1 mil you’ll feel motivated. Especially one u get the plaque
Yay Jerry posted a video
Really good in-depth video, nice to see you back Jerry!
0:00 Warm and Funny Intro + Backstory
8:15 Comparison + Factory Reset + Turn off Dynamics
19:00 Setup & Measurement with X-Rite iDisplay i1 Pro
30:00 Calibration
37:00 Stay on target...
My 4k Samsung monitor does not like this video, the blacks are static and the right side of your face gets blown out white at moments
Alas, DisplayCAL did not work for me. I pushed the boat out and got the _X-Rite i1 Display Pro._ But the resultant calibration left my screen way, way too dark despite using several combinations of Gamma settings and ambient light. In the end I used the _iProfile_ software that came with the device and that got my monitor bang on first time. Now, it's perfect. I was calibrating a brand new _LG 43UD47._
DisplayCAL would not / could not detect my SpdyerX Pro! So I went to their native software and I still was not getting a close calibration of a Dell U2718Q and a Dell U3417W. So I locate the README file and one of the caveats is under Windows OS you need TWO (2) Graphics cards, because Microsoft. No reason other than because... MSOS. =\😠
@@FairlawnARC hey. display cal could not detect my spyder also but i installed ArgyllCMS and it now does
@@graffitirasto Hi- I originally installed that with no joy. I'll try again. Oh, I have 2 displays - Windows 10 does not support 2 displays w/o 2 GPU Cards. =(
He returns! Glad to see you again!
Ooooo Jerry back again
He Never even left away but i understand at its hard to make content when you need to do all kinda stuff in life enyways but im clad at he post videos when he got something i like all his videos even that old Energizer Energi to Go Powered iPhone Case video
@@broo_shs I know that he never left. I watch all of his streams on twitch I was just making a snarky remark. Sorry if that didn't come across in the previous message ☺
@@unstungbee no worries i belive you look all his stuff
Always nice to get a video from you. Strangely one of my favorites was your Float Tank video. I love that stuff myself. It’s great for your back.
40 minutes well spent and I thought this video was -20minutes shorter after watching it. Good one, nicely simple but still enough explained.
I watched the whole video without even having Colorimeter. however this was useful.
Greatly appreciated ✔
Smashed like just because I see Jerry on my feed!
I take it for calibrating a TV for movies & console gaming, you're limited to just using that pre~calibration hardware level {on the TV itself} 2 point RGB setting, since obviously you can't create/ save ICC profiles on TVs.
Glad you're back, we missed you
Display cal also allows you to import corrections from the xrite software, thus if they release updates to support more displays, you can import those corrections. Though you need to have the xrite software installed when importing, after that the xrite software is no longer needed. For my displays, I increase the patch count to 2000 or higher, it will make the process take like 2 hours, but you will get a more accurate calibration (lower delta from the standard).
This is fantastic information! I hearted it.
You don't need the software actually installed, you just need it downloaded so you can import corrections from the software. Same thing goes for the Spyder5 colorimeters. For calibrating displays, there's much more to it than increasing patch count. Observer, whitepoint, color temperature, black level, profiling, color cal, color range, etc.
@@excalibur3311 For the white point, I recommend doing a quick verification measurement to get the native white point info to determine how far off you are from D65. Since with backlit displays, the white LED backlight determines the white point, if you correct it via the ICC profile, it makes the entire screen darker by the percentage of deviation you are from the target white point. It is not an issue if you are using a desktop PC and a display that gets brighter than you need, but if brightness is limited or if you are on a laptop, then it is something to avoid if possible, as it will cause you to end up increasing the brightness more than you usually would, thus impacting battery life. Small inaccuracies in color temperature are less of an issue anyway since the human brain does a good job in compensation for minor color temperature differences.
Decent quality displays look great even with a low patch count, but for cheap displays, for example, my cheap Asus VS229 display, greatly benefits from a high patch count since cheap displays tend to have strange inconsistencies in their response curves that often get missed at low patch counts, but at higher counts, they get fixed and when you do a large verification test, you don't end up with random peaks in the deltas.
I also have a low end netbook (a few of them) since they are extremely cheap, and work decently for basic stuff, e.g., recording audio in quiet environments, and running malware scans on hard drives in a USB 3.0 HDD dock. Anyway to do it just because I can, I did some testing on the display of a Lenovo s21e (horrible display but it is a $120 netbook when it came out originally), and visible improvements can be seen at 500, 1500, 2680, and topping out at around 3500 before no further improvements can be detected.
Wow you almost hit 1M. You will sometime this year. Congrats! I know is coming