César Ricardo Alpuche

It's so interesting to see how MTO has the human interaction factor of coloring so baked in that even to the interviewer, he never uses negative language. When discussing how turning a noon shot into a night shot, he never says "impossible", or "can't be done", or "extremely hard". He says "that can be a great challenge", as in a nod to the director that spending their time budget on that might not be in the best interest of their project.

It's so interesting to see how MTO has the human interaction factor of coloring so baked in that even to the interviewer, he never uses negative language. When discussing how turning a noon shot into a night shot, he never says "impossible", or "can't be done", or "extremely hard". He says "that can be a great challenge", as in a nod to the director that spending their time budget on that might not be in the best interest of their project.

Hi! I'm a new member of the Lowepost family and a young aspiring colorist who saved up to buy a reference grade monitor. However, I am not 100% of how to set up my new DM240 for accurate monitoring. Flanders themselves offer a tutorial generally describing the process of profiling for generation of a monitor LUT, however FS tech support told me no calibration was necessary and didn't mention anything regarding monitoring LUTs. From previous experience, I am led to believe that generating a monitor LUT to be used on Resolve Color Management is absolutely necessary for accurate monitoring, but what I do not know is exactly what settings to tweak in both the monitor and the calibration software, in my case, DisplayCAL since I can't afford FSI's own $550 USD iProfiler/CalMAN bundle. Most of my work is for web, seldom any TV work. So should I mess with the monitor's luminance? Should I be using Video or Data as my SDI level? What settings should I tweak when setting up the calibration in DisplayCAL? I am aware that monitor calibration is no easy subject, but I'm willing to learn and offer any additional information that might help me with my journey as a colorist. Thank you!