Spyder3 with External Monitor???

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Spyder3 with External Monitor???

I have recently bought the Spyder 3 and calibrated my lcd monitor connected via DVI to my Mac Pro.
I also have a Panasonic Plasma monitor I would like to somehow calibrate. The plasma has an HDSDI input that I have connected to my Kona3.
I am assuming the Spyder will not work for this?
If anyone has any advice that would be great!
Thanks,
Jesse

2x2.26 Ghz Quad-Core, Intel Zeon, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 16GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Posted on Jul 9, 2009 11:55 AM

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Answer 1

Shane Ross

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Jul 9, 2009 12:01 PM in response to jkorosi

The Spyder is a computer monitor calibrator, not HTDV calibrator...sorry.

And note that the Spyder calibration is for photo work and the like, not video. So the better image you will see will be on the Plasma...but you have to adjust it to bars the best you can.

Shane

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jkorosi Author

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Jul 9, 2009 12:40 PM in response to Shane Ross

By adjust it to bars, do you mean adjust it using the controls within the menu of the actual t.v. while putting bars up from FCP vs's any type of hardware?

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Answer 3

Shane Ross

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Jul 9, 2009 1:25 PM in response to jkorosi

Correct, you will have to use the TVs controls.

Shane

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Answer 4

Jul 9, 2009 7:33 PM in response to jkorosi

Spyders will calibrate to both the HD and SD color space quite happily when drive by a computer with a saved Colorsync profile. Color accuracy, including gamma match, is normally within a dE of 3 or less, which means that you cannot see any difference from a correct response - a dE of more than 5.

The Colorsync profile works as a very good LUT for the monitor.

The monitor with calibration is better the all of the big screen HD TVs that I have measured, even those professionally calibrated. Most HD TVs have very limited color correction capability unless you get into the service menu, and even then it is a very simple 2 point correction.

I would agree that a recently calibrated video monitor in the $5,000+ catagory will be better, but only with good fresh calibration.

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