Gamma 2.2

[Jarred Land]

Hey all, Just a reminder (in the mac world) to set your monitors to 2.2 gamma.

I just got a new system over the weekend and for a brief moment was wondering why everything looked like crap.. then remembered and changed it.

Just a reminder, since new macs ( at least the new mac pro towers) still come with 1.8 gamma as default, hopefully some day that will change.

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Just curious Jarred, what new system did you get? Specs?

[Jarred Land]

Just curious Jarred, what new system did you get? Specs?

I bought one of the new 2008 Mac Pro towers for home. 3.0ghz x8-cores with 8gb memory. I put a 160gb 10,000rpm Raptor as boot drive and it sure makes a difference over the stock drive apple gives you.

I also ordered 3 500gb drives from newegg to put in the internal drive caddy in a raid0 config to handle day to day render large video files.

Im experimenting using Idisk to sync my desktop and AAsync to make my little lacie sync via the internet on my work system so i dont need to haul around little drives anymore.. so far it works pretty good...

[Justin Kirchhoff]

I bought one of the new 2008 Mac Pro towers for home. 3.0ghz x8-cores with 8gb memory. I put a 160gb 10,000rpm Raptor as boot drive and it sure makes a difference over the stock drive apple gives you.

I also ordered 3 500gb drives from newegg to put in the internal drive caddy in a raid0 config to handle day to day render large video files.

Im experimenting using Idisk to sync my desktop and AAsync to make my little lacie sync via the internet on my work system so i dont need to haul around little drives anymore.. so far it works pretty good...

Sounds like a great setup. Shortly I'll be adding some G-Drive raid's into my arsenal. Anything more than what I have right now. I have 3 tbs in my mac pro right now and two 500 gig g-drive externals, but I need more space. Since it's getting a lot cheaper I think I'll drop more down for something that will be safe.

You can never have too much space!

[Poi Boy]

I bought one of the new 2008 Mac Pro towers for home. 3.0ghz x8-cores with 8gb memory. I put a 160gb 10,000rpm Raptor as boot drive and it sure makes a difference over the stock drive apple gives you.

I also ordered 3 500gb drives from newegg to put in the internal drive caddy in a raid0 config to handle day to day render large video files.

Im experimenting using Idisk to sync my desktop and AAsync to make my little lacie sync via the internet on my work system so i dont need to haul around little drives anymore.. so far it works pretty good...

Hey Jarred, what graphics card did you go with ?
Aloha
-A

[A. Bastaki]

how do you configure that on windows? ive got the 256mb standard video card. im running winx64 on mac pro. nvidia standard card. are there any gamma 2.2 icc profiles i could load?

googling at the moment.. ill upload as soon as i could find one.

so far it seems like windows already are gamma 2.2 calibrated
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[Chris Kenny]

The catch is that Final Cut Pro assumes your monitor is set to 1.8 and displays video supposedly corrected for that. See here.

[Jarred Land]

The catch is that Final Cut Pro assumes your monitor is set to 1.8 and displays video supposedly corrected for that. See here.

yeah.. wouldn't it be great if that actually worked :)

Quicktime has a gamma box that is supposed to overide the 1.8 gamma overide, but that as well, doesnt always work, and only works for people that have studio 2 installed.

[Stu Maschwitz]

The catch is that Final Cut Pro assumes your monitor is set to 1.8 and displays video supposedly corrected for that. See here.

This drives me crazy about FCP. Most video professionals set their displays to gamma 2.2. The Mac has a very clear and easy option for this. Apple has been involved in pushing color management forward. Safari is one of the few ICC color-managed browsers in existence. And yet FCP completely ignores your system settings and assumes you have a gamma 1.8 display—when in fact FCP users are the most likely candidates to prefer a 2.2 gamma.

This causes no end of problems and is the root of most of the gamma incompatibility issues surrounding Final Cut (why do my shots look darker in AE? Or Shake? Or Color?).

FCP really needs to fix this (by respecting the Colorsync settings on the host machine). And both FCP and Quicktime need to learn the difference between a display color management system and baking a gamma transform into the pixels they write out.

-Stu

[jbeale]

Most PC displays are somewhat close to 2.2 gamma to start with, it's just the Mac world that has traditionally been (and apparently still is) 1.8.

Here's a test chart you can use to tell what gamma your monitor is:
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfin...tml#gammachart

Note that quite often, a different application may do its own gamma correction! An image displayed in Photoshop often looks different than the same image displayed in my Firefox web browser. Download the test image from the link above, try it and see.

Note also, sometimes people say the gamma is off when actually it's the black level that is set wrong- both of those affect how contrasty or washed-out the image looks. The chart above lets you check both.