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normally when we do these videos we're evaluating the performance of the item

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about which we made the video but not today no today will be different the

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subject of today's video is one for

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which we are not capable of measuring

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the performance for it is itself a

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measuring instrument I mean imagine this could one evaluate the performance of a

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tape measure perhaps by comparing the feet to one's own feet or the Ines to

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one's

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own Intel brings ddr4 to the mainstream

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with their new core i7 6700k and core i56600k processors check out the link in

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the video description to learn more okay

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so the intro was pretty silly today but I don't want that to take away from the

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seriousness of the tool that I've got in

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front of me okay no seriously I'm done with that this my friends is the

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cryptically named x-ray i1 basic pro2 an

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instrument that even with the best press discount we could negotiate cost us

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$800 us to buy excuse me lonus what

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makes that goofy looking hunk of plastic worth over a thousand Canadian pesos

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great question the i1 basic Pro 2 is a professional grade color measurement and

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C calibration device in this case a spectr photometer with the ability to

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accurately I mean assuming you adhere to the yearly recertification process

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measure not only the light output of pretty much any display you would

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actually want to use but also of projectors and even printers to maintain

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an accurate workflow from the initial graphic design to display on the web and

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finally to physical paper media this is necessary because while the human I

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magnificent Beast that it is can detect a given range of wavelengths of light

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that's what we perceive as color our devices be they monitors televisions or

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printers cannot achieve the same level

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of performance yet with printers in particular legging significantly behind

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their digital counterparts so accurate color calibration and careful profile

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creation for the various devices an artist would use is essential for for

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preventing that chick modeling the hottest parkas for this season or

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whatever from looking oversaturated when viewed on a monitor and under saturated

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when viewed on the pages of a magazine and this is even more important when

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collaborating remotely with someone else

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say for example if you were designing a lan hoodie where standardized panone

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colors mean nothing if everyone's equipment is not calibrated correctly

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okay got it lonus color is cool and sciency and all that crap but come on

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we've seen your work and you guys are all over the map when it comes to color

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in your video so what do you need it for okay one that is something we're working

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on thanks to LG and X right all of our workstations are equipped with i1 Pro

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colorimeters and 31 muu 97 4K video

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editing monitors so you should expect to see some improvements soon and two this

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device is actually not for the video editors here at Linus Media Group it is

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for me now you might have seen some Fancy Pants

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looking graphs in the last couple of monitor videos that I've done those were

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created by Spectra Cal's calman 5 for business software an incredibly robust

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tool of which I've only barely begun to scratch the surface people use this

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software for all kinds of stuff like uh making sure that a wall of discrete

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displays doesn't have that goofy effect where they all look a little different

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which is jarring when an object passes over the border between them to a home

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theater installation to professional studio use but I'm focused on using

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their evaluation tools to determine the performance with respect to color

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accuracy maximum luminance Etc of

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computer monitors so it works a little something like this I fire up a monitor

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that I need to evaluate and I look for the profiles in the displays menu that

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are most likely to be accurate so the

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movie profile usually isn't the right one since that tends to crush blacks

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like there's no tomorrow so you lose detail in dark parts of the scene

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usually if you want the accurate one it's going to be srgb or RGB depending

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on how wide a gamut your monitor can

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cover so then I run through the gauntlet of tests and this basically tells me if

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the display manufacturer is actually calibrating before they put the monitor

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into the box or just applying a general

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profile and hoping for the best from unit to unit after they ship once that

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done although this has become less necessary in recent times with IPS

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monitors becoming so affordable and even and even high performance with 144 HZ

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displays like Acer's XP 270 hu available

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I use the i1 basic Pro 2 to apply an ICC

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profile to the monitor effectively correcting whatever mistakes the panel

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is making natively with your computer's graphics card and measure again to get a

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best case after calibration look at the display capabilities so that's pretty

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much it there's not much to say other than thanks to xrite for the discount

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and to spectracal for the software license and the marathon three-hour

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training session on the phone so that we can do much more now than just say you

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know yeah the uh colors on this one look pretty you know

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flee you know and just make things up as we go along both now and into the

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future guess who's back it's chero makers of useful and often adorable

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mobile accessories so they've got a couple of new ones here today the first

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one is the plate cable which is usually 15 bucks but they've actually got a

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special for 50 units over on Amazon for

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12 and pretty much what it does is it takes what would normally be a cable and

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folds it up around a little thing that fits on your keychain it's available in

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either lightning or micro USB connectors

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and then folds back up when you do not need it any longer so you can always

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carry a cable around with you at all

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freaking times the other one is a variant on one that we've actually shown

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you guys before their twoin one cable so the previous one had their like cute

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little Dan board thing on it with the light up eyes and all that well this is

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a lower cost alternative it's 15 bucks normally but same as the other one for

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the first 50 units it's $12 so we'll have links to both of those in the video

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description and thanks to churro for sponsor ing this

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episode so I hope you guys enjoyed this look at our newest piece of measurement

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