Hi guys!
I have an issue with my laptop. A few months ago a bought a new laptop because I needed it to edit a film while travelling. Therefore I chose a quite good laptop, with a fairly powerful graphic card.
Now, here's the problem: I have noticed that the monitor kinda sucks, even if it is supposed to be a really good one. As a matter of fact, whenever I am watching very dark footages the monitor crushes the shadows so that they become hardly visible. I noticed that the problem seems to happen more likely with dark reds.
I therefore tried to calibrate the monitor both through the Windows8 feature and with the graphic card control panel (Intel), which is a bit more complete. I reached a result that seemed to be acceptable on the images that Windows used for calibration purposes, however no o little change in my footage. But here comes the weird part: when I am editing the footage in my NLE..the image is good on the preview window!
Thus I produced 3 theories:
1) The problem is caused by my player. I tried three different players (VLC, Windows Media, Quick Time) and the result is pretty much the same (even if Quick Time gives a slightly better image). However, the same players gave good results on other laptops.
2) The problem is caused by the export format. I doubt it, since I always exported in .mp4 and it always worked fine. Also, when I watched the exported product on other laptops everything worked fine. And, as a matter of fact, the original footage (which is .mov) creates exactly the same problem - shadow crushed on my laptop and not in others.
3) There could be some stupid color visualization preset (like the TV's "dinamic", or whatever) activated. This is the theory that makes more sense to me, since it is likely that the NLE automatically avoids such an idiot setting in order to deliver good images. Wandering around the Intel Graphic Settings I found out several options that may effect the multimedia visualization, but messing up with them did not change anything at all. I am still wondering what I am doing wrong.
Here are the links at two screenshots, one taken with VLC and the other one with the NLE. The difference is noticeable (even if the screenshot of the NLE is much darker than the NLE preview itself; however you can still notice how many details are completely gone in VLC)
VLC
NLE
Thanks for the help!
I have an issue with my laptop. A few months ago a bought a new laptop because I needed it to edit a film while travelling. Therefore I chose a quite good laptop, with a fairly powerful graphic card.
Now, here's the problem: I have noticed that the monitor kinda sucks, even if it is supposed to be a really good one. As a matter of fact, whenever I am watching very dark footages the monitor crushes the shadows so that they become hardly visible. I noticed that the problem seems to happen more likely with dark reds.
I therefore tried to calibrate the monitor both through the Windows8 feature and with the graphic card control panel (Intel), which is a bit more complete. I reached a result that seemed to be acceptable on the images that Windows used for calibration purposes, however no o little change in my footage. But here comes the weird part: when I am editing the footage in my NLE..the image is good on the preview window!
Thus I produced 3 theories:
1) The problem is caused by my player. I tried three different players (VLC, Windows Media, Quick Time) and the result is pretty much the same (even if Quick Time gives a slightly better image). However, the same players gave good results on other laptops.
2) The problem is caused by the export format. I doubt it, since I always exported in .mp4 and it always worked fine. Also, when I watched the exported product on other laptops everything worked fine. And, as a matter of fact, the original footage (which is .mov) creates exactly the same problem - shadow crushed on my laptop and not in others.
3) There could be some stupid color visualization preset (like the TV's "dinamic", or whatever) activated. This is the theory that makes more sense to me, since it is likely that the NLE automatically avoids such an idiot setting in order to deliver good images. Wandering around the Intel Graphic Settings I found out several options that may effect the multimedia visualization, but messing up with them did not change anything at all. I am still wondering what I am doing wrong.
Here are the links at two screenshots, one taken with VLC and the other one with the NLE. The difference is noticeable (even if the screenshot of the NLE is much darker than the NLE preview itself; however you can still notice how many details are completely gone in VLC)
VLC
NLE
Thanks for the help!
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