Monitor & TV Calibration

[jesterspet535]

I am currently becoming fustrated with the differences between my captures and what I see on my TV.

While my TV shows everything just fine, and I have actually gone through the trouble of ensuring that it is calibrated to display the best picture it is capable of (from the THX calibration tool on the Star Wars Episode I tool) and I have calibrated my monitor with a utility that I grabbed from Nokia's website, I cannot adjust my monitor to exactly match my TV's display.

I have tried playing with the overlay for the ATI card, and the adjutments within Virtualdub. The captures never match the colors I see on the TV.

I can get the blacks and the whites to match up and the reds & blues look acceptable, anything involving greens & yellows is way off..

I have verified that my captures are off buy playing them on 2 other computers (1 linux, 1 Win2k) with very different monitors.

Does anyone know of anything that may help me adjust my captures to more accuraty get my captures to match my TV output?


for more info on my setup, check my profile.

[Tommyknocker]

Actually, when I first starting capturing with VDub, I ran across a guru who is an expert at this capturing software. Something tells me you really will enjoy his site, especially since his section called "Video Tuning" is "right down your alley":
http://www.lukesvideo.com/

[jesterspet535]

yep, been there, done that.

I followed lukes advice to get a fine tuned bead on the blacks, whites, blues, and reds to look acceptable. However even after following his tutorial (whitch is invaluable in almost every other aspect) I still cannot get the yellows and golds to even remotly match up. even if I sacrivice the rest of the spectrum and set my saturation level higher or lower, it still doesnt give me the results I am seeking.

Right now, the only thing I can think of to correct this is to try to find (through trial and error) the "magic" setting that must exist somewhere in the Brightness/Contrast/hue/Saturation settings.

However it is my hope that someone somewhere has the knowlege that will show me how to find this misterious and elusive setting without having to capture the exact same thing 255^4 times.

Does anyone else out ther have any suggestions?