From the course: Color for Video Editors
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The real world: Grandma's pink TV
From the course: Color for Video Editors
The real world: Grandma's pink TV
- In the previous movie, I stressed how important it was to have, or at least consider, reference level monitoring and how no matter what monitoring you're using, trust of that monitoring is important, and trust is built through calibration. But sadly, I'm here to tell you that none of that matters. At all. The best that we can ever do when color correcting a project, is work in a reference environment where we know that the monitoring that we're using is accurate and is the truth and that we make all of our decisions about contrast and color on that monitor. When a project actually leaves the color room, all bets are off. We can not control how that content will be displayed. And I want to give you a practical example. I call it "Grandma's Pink TV." Here's what I mean: A few years ago, I was working on a project for a client and we were really happy with the way the project looked. It was a series of commercials. We gave each other high fives at the end of the project. Everybody was…
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