Can you use a $1000 LG OLED as a Grading Monitor with Davinci Resolve? - How to setup and calibrate 

9:17 selecting "OLED (RGB)" is wrong here. It should be "* OLED TV (WRGB)" (the last option at the bottom)

I ordered the 65" Panasonic LZ2000 OLED after watching your video! Very informative

This was fantastic, thanks so much for the step-by-step! There's so little out there about HDR calibration, I would LOVE to see a video just like this for HDR too!

LG A series oled tvs are super color accurate out of the box. It maches C series calibrated with spyder calibrator 😊

Very detailed & extremely useful video, thanks for such a detailed tutorial showing all the steps for setting up.

I’ve got this tv and using it as a VFX display. It is so incredibly high performance compared to very expensive LED /LCD monitors. The colours, black levels and instant latency is no comparison to them. It’s so vastly superior it’s not funny. I’m so looking forward to Eizo, Hp and Asus to all have Oled displays for grading in the coming years. This display is only $1100 AUD at the moment which is 1/3 the cost of a grading lcd with a much much better performance and quality. I have an Eizo and Asus pro art LCD displays.

Fantastic video. Answered all my questions about using an OLED TV. GREAT JOB! Now to put it to practice...lol I'll reach out to let you know how it goes.

Man I really wish there was a way to do this without the Rasperry Pi, Windows, or the expensive Calman software. I'm just going to hire a calibrator.

I've spend a LOT of time over the past year, to research how to use the Calman Home for Sony. Things are by far clear on their website. For one, they mentions that you can use an Android app, ad pattern generator, but not how - it's via an usb to HDMI adaptor cable, and apparently that's not even close to being accurate. Well, that was my rant. Here comes the interesting part. I can't check this, because 1) It's not described how. 2) I haven't actually bought the software yet. On their web page under the Sony version, it says: "Calman Home for Sony Workflows HDR Manual Calibration Workflow. SDR Manual Calibration Workflow. Meter Profiling Workflow. Monitor Calibration Workflow. Sony Calibration Workflow - supports SDR and HDR (HDR calibration derived from SDR). " The interesting part being" Monitor Calibration Workflow". As I understand it, there's a 3 unit licence, along with the AutoCal software, meaning you can calibrate 3 TVs, then aquire additional licence, if needed. But nowhere, except for this very page, does it say anything about monitor calibration, and there are actually other places, where it says you need the pro solutions, for monitor calibration. Now, I DO have a free calibration solution for my displays, but if I c could use the Calman Home, I sure would. All it takes, us apparently a Client3 PC Single or multiple License, but again, it's frustratingly vague. It says you need a "Client3 Profile Manager (add-on option), but when you do a Google search on" Client3 Profile Manager", you only get links to CalMAN Client3 software.

i would really wanna see how you do the HDR calibration, i am quite new to this and use the LG internal pattern generator.

Any updates on whether LG is still working on a fix for the pattern generator issue?

Thanks for the info. I am looking into getting a Lg Oled A2 monitor for my clean feed along with a sypder calibrator. im on a tight budget. what are your thoughts for this set up for a beginner. Thanks

I have the Datacolor SpyderX Pro Color. Do you think this is an acceptable probe to use with this tv for professional color grading?

Great video! Very thorough and clear. You mentioned the C1 tv's have a pattern creation. Can you explain how to do it?

Greetings and Thank you for this tutorial. I have an M1 Macbook Pro, an "X-Rite ColorChecker® Passport Photo 2" and an "UltraStudio Monitor 3G 3G-SDI/HDMI Playback Device". Can I use them to calibrate an LG C3 or C4 using this video as a guide? Thanks again and Regards.

🦊🐦🐠Thanks!

Important question here You said bt.1886 was made for displays that couldn't reproduce real black. I got my OLED calibrated using bt.1886 gamma for SDR. Since Gamma 2.4 was made to reproduce real black, should I instead use Gamma 2.4?

Nicely done information. One question though - how would I set up the resolve project on HDR - using the C1? I am unsure, since the C1 with peak brightness on low giving me only 400 something nits. Especially in an ACES workflow. Does this box: “master hdr on 1000 nits” checkbox does anything? How would you guys tackle this? Cheers Christoph.

How different is this process with a blackmagic ultrastudio 3g? My tech stack would be a C2 + Mac Studio + UltraStudio 3G + X-Rite i1Basic PRO 3

The distance between grading and normal monitors has become small enough through the years and advances in mainstream technology. This is not 2005 and even a TV can prove better than most "graders".

I see that this model OLED42C2PUA is discontinued and being replaced by OLED42C3PUA I believe. But, B&H does not yet have them in stock. Best Buy does still have the C2 for $899. B&H is taking pre-orders for the C3 for $1,296. Is the new C3 version worth the extra cost and the wait or is juts features not pertaining to color grading/edit display? Thanks

Does anyone know if the C2 internal pattern generator works with calman now? It sounded like they were trying to fix it with an update but I can't find any information on it.

Great great video!

I bought the new LG 45GR95QE - B monitor when it first dropped to edit with. Could I get some decent results using it to color grade I know it uses DCI-P3 at 98.5% coverage . I don’t have a red camera or anything yet but I just started off using this R6 mark 2 uses cinema gamut with log 3 . I was wanting to get the R1 but hadn’t came out yet and I knew if I would have got the R3 as soon as I bought it they would have dropped the R1 lol. I’m not looking to get into major motion pictures but I would like to be able to produce some of the best American Bully cinematic videos . As well as do projects for clients one day. Just curious what your thoughts are being that my monitor is not the most expensive neither . I do like it though first 45 inch 240hz oled ever

Curious about hdr, I have a C1 and it works great for my client monitor, but as I slowly integrate into hdr I have a few questions about settings. For my mac, there’s a display setting for hdr when hdr display is detected. For SDR I leave it off, but for HDR should I be turning that display setting on to force the lg in hdr mode for HDR grading? Then in regards to my LG oled settings in HDR, there’s tone mapping. Should I be turning that off for grading?

Great Video! Thank you! Is there a reason not to use the "Calibrate Profiler" software which comes with the (X-Rite) Display Pro colorimeter instead of purchasing the Calman software? Both will be using the same colorimeter. Note that I'm a novice thinking of getting an LG C3 or C4 to use as my computer monitor so that I can use Davinci Resolve for editing and colour grading etc, and I already have the Calibrate (X-Rite) Display Pro colorimeter.

for LG monitors (ie 27EQ950 and 27EQ850) will process be same and will the LG home package still work? Or is this designed explicitly for TVs?

I tried 9 points and got an average color performance of .4, but it took 45 minutes, so there is a trade-off.

Thank you so much for this information. This video cleared up all my questions about calibration. I've been using DisplayCal with my x-rite, any thoughts about that in terms of accuracy or best practices? Though, I do think in the future I'll have someone professionally calibrate with Calman. It would be nice to have a cheaper version for consumers for non-TV screens so I can use the Raspberry PI method. I'm on an Eizo which has been fantastic. I do think you're right though, you don't need a BVM or something similar, but it's crazy that there are displays that cost more than my car. I maybe wrong, because I'm new to this, but it seems like displays haven't "democratized" as fast as other gear in the industry (cams, lighting, etc).

Does this video explain EVERYTHING that is needed for grading on an LG? I've watched tons of these videos and have ruined myself financially chasing the rabbit. Bought the TV. Bought the calibrator. Ready to buy the calibrating software. Bought the DeckLink and external pci-e box. But what about the LUT box that you HAVE to have? A cheap one is $1,600. What about the pattern generator that you HAVE to have? I haven't even priced those yet. Does this video tell the whole truth or is it just another "Buy an LG and wow, it'll be amazing" video?

could I use calman to build a lut for a monitor that isn't LG and can't make it's own luts? I'm wondering if I could use calman to read a monitor (like LG pro art), use it to build a lut, then load that lut into davinci or another monitor LUT device offered by black magic? Obv I would need to make a pattern generator too for the monitor, but in theory is this possible? any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Pls say this Along side lgcx oled hdr tv as secondary display to benq pd 2706u hdr Sri 99% and wide colour gamut monitor Can we get Hollywood range colours to my theater movie pls say

Is the ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG42UQ recommended for DaVinci? HDR 10, 120Hz, latency 0.1 sec, contrast 135000:1, G-Sync for GPU NVidia RTX 4090. Is there a risk of burn-in with static image parts in the color grading area of ​​DaVinci Resolve?

Hi, thanks for the video mate! Also, do you recommend turning of TSP and GSR from the service before calibration?

Could you explain the difference between video and full range in depth and how that applies in resolve?

Is it possible to calibrate without the ultrastudio? Will be a little bit before I can get one.

I'm new to this whole advanced color workflow world and trying to build out a decent grading setup. About to buy a "42 C2 and Blackmagic Decklink 4k PCIe card. I already own a Datacolor Sypder X Pro. Would that work with the Calman software or do I need to get a Calibrite ColorChecker? Great video, thanks!

1.1 to 2.4 on the colour weow.

I use BenQ SW32, any thoughts on that model?

Do you need a second monitor for this setup to work, or can this be done with only the LG TV?

can you share the data you got after calibration

Hello Sir, thank you for your post. Do you know if the Raspberry pi is still needed?

Which version of Calman home for LG did you use? I downloaded Calman Home for LG 2022 R3 Version: 5.13.2 five days ago, and SDR calibration fails due to Aurora engine not completing LUT builds, or other issues -always after reading the patch set so wasting hours/days of repeated efforts to calibrate. So far the only improvement to my C2 calibration was the result of my second full C2 factory reset -excepting cinema mode is now unusable for any purpose other than playing tik-tak-toe.

Can we use Samsung m7 43 inch 4k monitor for professional movie Color grading wotks

9:19 but the lg OLEDs are not RGB OLEDs

I literally just bought the Calman home for LG AFTER seeing this video. and I have the LG C2 Evo. They need to give me a refund since it doesn't work. but on the website it says it does. I keep getting an error mid 1D calibration

If you use the Ultrastudio Monitor 3G you can only color grade on 1080p 60?

Would y’all ever create a calibration rental package?

why not use the whole values? what is the problem? i dont get. if you have a 100w of audio use the whole 100 not 85.

If you export for online, how do you avoid the gamma shift? thx

is there another way to calibrate a lg oled using macos? calman home is only for windows

Shouldn't this be OLED (WRGB) not OLED (RGB)? That's wrong

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I thought these LG's were calibrated and ready to go out of the box.

You made a catastrophic mistake: For LG panels, you need to select OLED WRGB, not RGB. Also, unless you are using a high quality certified colorimeter (like the C6) you really need a spectrophotometer to profile your colorimeter, otherwise the calibration is pointless.

None of this is very cheap. $1,000 monitor is okay, but the CalMan software runs $2,000 by itself.

A TV set can’t be a reference monitor. At best it can only be a client’s monitor. Saying it can be use as a reference monitor after calibration is very misleading. Reference monitor is the highest quality of a broadcast monitor, even Sony never sell PVM series as a reference monitor and PVM series is much better quality than a TV set.