

This unfortunately probably rules out 4K displays, which is probably a dealbreaker.

And most other makers (as far as I can tell) don't offer true emulation modes.ĥ) Get a laptop with an sRGB display. No guarantees DPC is accurate even when it is working.
#Displaycal profile type drivers
Unfortunately, DPC breaks and/or is broken depending whenever windows, your video driver, or your intel drivers get updated. Dell offers the Premiere Color app, which does this job for its XPS laptops. This does seem a little nihilistic, though.Ĥ) Use an sRGB/R709 emulation mode if your laptop/display support it.

#Displaycal profile type windows
Wide-gamut displays on windows are becoming ubiquitous, so if you're delivering to the web, you might reason that your preview actually matches what most of your viewers are going to see. This is probably a good solution if you're able to get it work, but there is a non-trivial chance you create a LUT which just shows you another, incorrect, preview - and you don't really have any way of checking it unless you've got a spectrometer. Not a solution, if you want the portability of editing on a laptop, but worth mentioning as it is a simple and effective solution to an otherwise intractable set of problems.Ģ) Create and apply a LUT to Vegas's output fx to convert your preview to sRGB and/or R709 and then trust that your preview is correct.ĭispla圜AL should be able to do this, except profiling wide-gamut displays with colorimeters is tricky, and Displa圜AL itself is complicated. The goal is to correct the mismatch between what Windows/Vegas expect (an sRGB display) and how your wide-gamut monitor displays sRGB colors (wildly over-saturated).ġ) You could get a secondary (broadcast) monitor. I had thought the solution to working with today's wide-gamut displays was to profile the screen (ie SpyderX, Xrite) targeting R709 and then you're done, but apparently this doesn't work at all - as far as I'm aware, you cannot correctly emulate/clamp to sRGB or 709 via icm files (which reinforces my sense that color management in windows is basically hopeless). (This would be for those of you who edit on laptops w/o a secondary monitor)
