wolvers
Prominent Member
This has come up again recently, and we never seem to of gotten to a definitive answer on how to set this correctly, so I thought I would start a thread where we can collate together all our settings and how we set them to see if there is any common ground. Who knows, we may even get to a stage where we can create a definitive method.
I'll start us off as I just spent an hour or so with some test patterns that djcla pointed to the other day from here;
AVS HD 709 - Blu-ray & MP4 Calibration - AVS Forum
The mp4 zipped one is what I chose to use and I've used just the three that are dedicated to black and white levels. They are called 'Black Clipping', 'White Clipping' and 'APL Clipping'. These are self explanatory and you shouldn't have any trouble working out what they should look like. I can try and add screenshots if I'm not making much sense.
APL clipping (you can use this image to check that the main output of the GPU and the display are set correctly)
With my system I have 3 settings to focus on. First is the Pixel Format in the AMD Control Center (which I believe sets the main output of the GPU), then the Dynamic Range in the video settings (only affects video playback via the enhanced video renderer as far as I can tell i.e. in media center) and finally the HDMI Video Range in my display's setting (Normal or Expanded). I started out by setting them all to what I believe to be matching options (limitedRGB, limited 16-235 and normal). It's worth noting here that I made a point of leaving all Brightness and Contrast settings on default, that's for the desktop colour, video and in the display's settings as well as leaving all dynamic contrast options off.
Video Dynamic Range (AMD)
Video Dynamic Range (Nvidia)
Video Dynamic Range setting for Intel?
I was obvious straight away that there was something not right as the bars were nowhere to be seen on the blacks test and the whites were fully in view. After some trial and error, basically going from being fully crushed to well overblown, I found that only one of the original settings was incorrect. Switching the Pixel Format from limited RGB to full RGB has sorted it, then I just tweaked the brightness and contrast in the video colour settings on the AMD control center to get the test patterns looking perfect.
Pixel Format settings (AMD, AFAIK you cannot change this on Nvidia so you might need to to work out what the GPU is outputting. I'm unsure of Intel)
Admittedly it's a slightly odd combination of settings but it appears to be spot on according to the test patterns so I will now do some extensive movie watching to see if it looks good in real life.
Please chime in and let us know how you have set yours up and why.
I'll start us off as I just spent an hour or so with some test patterns that djcla pointed to the other day from here;
AVS HD 709 - Blu-ray & MP4 Calibration - AVS Forum
The mp4 zipped one is what I chose to use and I've used just the three that are dedicated to black and white levels. They are called 'Black Clipping', 'White Clipping' and 'APL Clipping'. These are self explanatory and you shouldn't have any trouble working out what they should look like. I can try and add screenshots if I'm not making much sense.
APL clipping (you can use this image to check that the main output of the GPU and the display are set correctly)
With my system I have 3 settings to focus on. First is the Pixel Format in the AMD Control Center (which I believe sets the main output of the GPU), then the Dynamic Range in the video settings (only affects video playback via the enhanced video renderer as far as I can tell i.e. in media center) and finally the HDMI Video Range in my display's setting (Normal or Expanded). I started out by setting them all to what I believe to be matching options (limitedRGB, limited 16-235 and normal). It's worth noting here that I made a point of leaving all Brightness and Contrast settings on default, that's for the desktop colour, video and in the display's settings as well as leaving all dynamic contrast options off.
Video Dynamic Range (AMD)
Video Dynamic Range (Nvidia)
Video Dynamic Range setting for Intel?
I was obvious straight away that there was something not right as the bars were nowhere to be seen on the blacks test and the whites were fully in view. After some trial and error, basically going from being fully crushed to well overblown, I found that only one of the original settings was incorrect. Switching the Pixel Format from limited RGB to full RGB has sorted it, then I just tweaked the brightness and contrast in the video colour settings on the AMD control center to get the test patterns looking perfect.
Pixel Format settings (AMD, AFAIK you cannot change this on Nvidia so you might need to to work out what the GPU is outputting. I'm unsure of Intel)
Admittedly it's a slightly odd combination of settings but it appears to be spot on according to the test patterns so I will now do some extensive movie watching to see if it looks good in real life.
Please chime in and let us know how you have set yours up and why.
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