Monitor Vs Resolve

[AlexC]

Hi guys,

Sorry if this has been asked before, I tried searching but couldn’t find an exact explanation.

Basically, I only have 1 monitor. If I calibrate the monitor itself, do I still need to separately calibrate another profile for Resolve?
I’m only asking because, with Display Cal, I can see that you have an actual option called Resolve, so I was wondering if I need both or is it just enough to calibrate my main monitor?

I think I’ve read in some other posts that the Resolve basically helps you create a LUT which you can then load, and if I understood correctly this is ONLY beneficial if you are using a 2nd monitor as a reference for color grading.

However, if you only have one monitor, is it enough to calibrate just the monitor itself, without creating the resolve lut?

[Vincent]

A practical example.

You have a widegamut photo monitor with typical high AdobeRGB coverage and native red exceeding AdobeRGB gamut into P3 red. No HW calibration.
You move to some native gamut OSD, fix white and let DisplayCAL calibrate grey. After this process you have a profile with full native gamut description and a grey calibration. That’s all, since DisplayCAL or i1Profiler or other app (no HW cal) relies on GPU to calibrate grey but does not modify display colorspace boundaries.
For resolve you’ll need a LUT3D that maps Rec709 data into that full native gamut, hence, calibrating grey for general purpose color manged apps (ICC) is not enough.

Al alternative sutiation: you have a widegamut monitor but it has HW cal and you can limit dsiplay colorspace to match your video content, then no further calibration would be needed.
It has a drawback, since display colorspace is limited to your video content (let’s say Rec709) you won’t be hable to use full native colorspace in other apps, at least in that OSD preset. Since these display have several slots for several HW calibration this is not a real issue.

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