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Profiler
User Manual
If you connect a monitor to your system which doesn't sup- port hardware
calibration, this option is grayed out and not available.
Software calibration (video LUTs)
Video-LUT of a
Monitors without hardware calibration should be prepared via the OSD
monitor with a full
hardware calibration
(On-Screen-Display) of the monitor.
Result: All RGB-colors
After manual preparation of the hardware (adjusting the display's buttons
can be used for
the output on the
to control the OSD, as guided by SpectraView Profiler) SpectraView
monitor
Profiler will calibrate these monitors via a video-LUT (Look-Up-Table)
correction on the graphics card.
Video-LUTof an
automatic/manually
combined hard/
No calibration (profile only)
software calibrated
monitor
Some graphic cards do not support video-LUTs. A software calibra-
Result: Allmost all
tion will fail on these systems. But you can use this option to create an
RGB-colors can be
used for the output
ICC-profile for these systems.
on the monitor.
You can also use this option if you want to just profile the monitor using
Video-LUT of a non-
the present video-LUT in your graphics card. SpectraView Profiler will
calibrateable monitor
(e.g. a notebook)
use the video-LUT for the profiling process and will write this video-LUT
Result: A lot of
into the ICC-profile.
RGB-colors are
getting lost for the
monitor output.
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