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ANALYZE THIS—YOUR MONITOR
In the Getting Started chapter, I explained that analyzing your image is an important first step toward good color correction. The next three chapters will be a more in-depth discussion of the analytical tools. We'll start with the most obvious choice for analyzing your image: using your eyes and your monitor.
The first way that the desktop editor usually analyzes the video image is to simply view the image on the computer screen. This is not recommended, though, because the gamma response of a computer display is different from a TV set or video monitor. Also, this image has not yet passed through the video card as it will when it goes to tape. A properly adjusted video monitor is definitely the preferred way to ...
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