Edit Suites - A3051-3055
The Edit Suites are available for your use to check your colors with confidence. Suites 1, 2, and 3 are equipped with color calibrated monitors, bias lighting to reduce eyestrain and improve perceived contrast, speakers, and a Davinci Resolve control panel for fine adjustments of your image. Edit Suites 4 and 5 are equipped with a microphone and headphones for sound recording. The Edit Suites are meant for colour picking, colour correction, sound editing, and video editing. To check out an edit suite, go to Media Resources on the first floor, room D1310 and ask for an Animation Edit Suite key. Edit Suites 1, 2, and 3 are for colour critical work, Edit Suites 4 and 5 are for sound editing and recording.
Equipment
Suites 1, 2, and 3:
- One Eizo ColourEdge for colour critical work
- One secondary display for software controls and palettes
- One DaVinci Resolve panel
- Bias lighting
- Stereo studio monitors (speakers)
- Blackmagic graphics card to output the to color critical display.
Suites 4 and 5:
- Non-Colour critical displays
- M-Audio control panel
- Headphones
- Microphone
- Stereo Studio monitors (speakers)
- Protools
Eizo ColourEdge monitor
The Eizo ColourEdge monitors are self-calibrating monitors used for colour picking and correction. The easiest way to identify the ColourEdge monitor from the FlexScan it is either the hood on the top or the notch in the middle of the monitor, which is its calibration sensor. The ColourEdge runs on a separate graphics card than the other monitor. The monitor is currently set for sRGB, the most widely used colour gamut standard of broadcast television. If you would like to preview your work in DCI-P3, the standard for digital cinemas, please talk to a technician.Davinci Resolve Panel
The Davinci Resolve panels are used as colour correction control panels within DaVinci Resolve. The trackballs allow for fine adjustments of the colour of your image.Bias Lighting
The lights behind the monitors are called "bias lights". Bias lighting is used to relieve both eye fatigue and allow the human eye to perceive colours more accurately on a computer screen. When looking at a computer screen in darkness, the human eye cannot adjust to the brightness of a screen. Rather, it adjusts to the average brightness across your field of vision. To mitigate this, putting a daylight temperature (6500K) light behind a screen so that the areas around it aren't as dark allows the eye to adjust, making colours appear richer, as well as improves the contrast between lights and darks. The edit suites are best used with the overhead lights off to avoid any glare on the monitors.Colour picking in Photoshop
- Open Photoshop
- Go to Edit > Colour Settings
- Click the drop-down menu next to "RGB" and select the colour work space "sRGB IEC61966-2.1". Click OK to close the window. (NOTE: this setting is ONLY for work that will be viewed on a computer or phone screen, for work that will be viewed in a theatre, choose the Rec 709 Gamma 2.4 colour space)
- Pick your colours, be sure to make note of either hex codes, RGB, or HSV values of the colours you have chosen so you can recreate them in other files/programs. You can also create a colour palette that will travel with your Adobe account.
Monitoring in Davinci Resolve
- To set up the Blackmagic card, go to the Davinci Resolve menu, Preferences, then Video and Audio I/O. Next to "For capture and playback use", select "Intensity Pro 4K". Click save and restart Davinci Resolve.
- To adjust the Video Monitoring settings, go to File > Project Settings > Master Settings. Here you can change your timeline resolution, pixel aspect ratio, and frame rate. Below the Timeline settings are the Video Monitoring settings. Make sure the Video format is set to HD 1080p 24. Your timeline project can be in a different resolution, like 4K for example, but the Video Monitoring resolution must be HD 1080p.
Last modified: Monday, 12 February 2024, 3:53 PM