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REC709 or sRGB Monitor

Started 6 months ago | Discussions thread
Andrew S10 Senior Member • Posts: 1,839
Re: REC709 or sRGB Monitor

What video editing software are you using?

Have you considered using Davinci Resolve color management (also affects gamma)?

I don't think YouTube messes with the gamma, except maybe when making a tone-mapped Rec.709 version from an HDR source, but I think their main goal is to compress the life out of your clip.

Rec.709 & sRGB are very similar, so most viewers likely wouldn't notice the difference, but I would recommend that you buy or rent a colorimeter and make an sRGb calibration profile for when you're editing photos, and a Rec.709 profile for when you're editing videos. There's no need to switch from an sRGB monitor to a Rec.709 TV, just calibrate your monitor with DisplayCal.

The best you can do is give them a video edited with a calibrated monitor, but once it hits YouTube, all bets are off, as phones, tables, PC monitors, & TVs have a huge variance in black levels, brightness ratings, contrast ratios, tints, etc. I remember at one point, only Chrome would display YouTube videos correctly, but I'm sure they fixed that issue long ago.

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