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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Jun 15 2011, 12:03 AM |
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Or maybe this is just an unadjusted LCD screen in which I have viewed this video:
https://rapidshare.com/files/3141177448/Pai...-preview-CR.zip
There are some swears in this. It's from 20 years-ago when I was in high school. I'm the dork in the fake leather jacket.
On my CRT this video looks good with blacks, mids and highlights even though it is a VHS capture. On one LCD screen I previewed this video on I had to adjust the brightness in the Nvidia card all the way down to 0 for brightness to get it to look close to what I see on my CRT.
Can anyone who has an LCD confirm if the video is too light? |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Jun 15 2011, 05:11 AM |
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Looks ok on the ones here at work
Did you check the pc-with-the-lcd-screen's nvidia control panel's video section
There's a seperate section just for video brightness/colour/etc
Some of them are horribly adjusted
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Jun 15 2011, 04:41 PM |
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Thanks for checking.
Yeah I did. Either adjust the brightness down to 0 or decrease the gamma equally to about 0.80 to bring the levels down to what my CRT monitor would resemble.
The LCD monitor in question is an Acer v173 model. Not only is it bright but it looks sort of fuzzy, slightly more fuzzy when it comes to viewing videos. Blacks look grey with very soft highlights. Kind of cottonish looking.
Are all LCD's this bright in nature? I expected maybe just the blacks to be greyed a little but not like this. |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Jun 15 2011, 05:12 PM |
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| QUOTE | | Are all LCD's this bright in nature? I expected maybe just the blacks to be greyed a little but not like this. |
Not normally no :-)
I'd reset it back to factory defaults, same with all the nvidia controls as well (desktop as well as video)
Then see what it looks like
I usually find that most of these problems have been caused by people 'playing' with the controls
eg moving around the nvidia video settings (when there's no video on screen), seeing no difference (as that bit only effects videos) and then not re-centering the controls
The other thing that happens a lot is people adjust the lcd controls, then someone else adjust the nvidia controls, then the first person adjust the lcd controls again etc etc
Soon, the settings get all kind of crazy
The other one is just a plain old bad monitor (like the piece of .... i'm using right now)
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Jun 15 2011, 05:34 PM |
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I was thinking of using the Studio RGB to PC plugin in Vegas but maybe that isn't really necessary? It does add a bit of contrast that might help for an LCD screen? |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Jun 15 2011, 05:42 PM |
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If you do, you could get horrible super-dark/over-white bits if the vid is ever played back on a tv
The pc levels are 0-255
YUV uses 16-235 for brightness, and 16-239 for U/V (colour)
TV's etc use the 0-15 and 236-255 as super-black/white
Super black can normally be seen on letterboxed videos on tv - the letterboxing is darker than the black of the video
You shouldn't have to take special steps for a video to look ok on lcd panels
If you do, then you're tuning your video to an out of whack panel
Bit like tuning your guitar to a broken tuning device
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