Help: Maintaining consistency in color between different display devices

I’m having difficulty maintaining consistency in the color of my videos between different display devices. I’m currently editing with Final Cut Pro X on a Macbook Pro. I use an external display monitor (which has been profiled by Colomunki) for my color correcting, but there is a distinct discrepancy between the color on my external monitor and my Macbook Pro monitor. The discrepancy is more significant when I watch my videos on other computers after burning DVD’s using the share function in FCP X.

Is there a solution to this or is there anything I can do to minimize these color discrepancies between display devices?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

That is somewhat of a "loaded" question. Color consistency has always been an issue among multiple devices. There are just too many potential causes of difference in luminosity, hue, saturation, etc. The type of display that each computer uses will affect it's color representation, the user settings for brightness, contrast, etc., etc. will all be a factor. If you are in a broadcast environment, there are products and techniques that can assist you in producing for consistent and legal color gamuts. If you are producing for the web, this is less serious and as long as you are grading on a decent quality monitor and using your video scopes to help manage your image, you should get reasonably comparable quality on most current displays.

You should be able to more closely match your external monitor to your Macbook display, and so if this is way off you need to make some adjustments to one or the other. You might try to color calibrate the Macbook first.

But, all this aside, even if you get your system displays to match, that's no guarantee that playback on other peoples computers will display the same colors. One more point,,,,when burning to DVD, assuming SD DVD, you are at quite a bit lower resolution and overall quality than your original HD material would be (unless of course you are editing in standard def from start).

Tell me about it. I just shot a 30 second ad for a school project and it looked much different on the TV at school than it did on my computer at home. I know for a fact that they don't do anything to make the screens at school actually look good in the first place (which is stupid considering it's in the broadcast department).

I don't know what happened with the footage (we used the JVC HM-600), but there was a green tint to some shots even though I white balanced every time I changed angles. Color correcting it was pretty rough, I had to try and add the right amount of red to give our ad the right look while trying to remove the green.

On top of that, I'm red green colorblind so I have a hard time seeing the shades of those colors as they shift into other hues. So I'm learning to really understand all the color scopes for more correct grading. Additionally I'm learning about my perception of color and that I tend to over saturate images to create more contrast because that's what my brain likes.

In general it seems like a good understanding of the color scopes will help make different displays more consistent. But what do I know? I'm colorblind and have only just begun to learn about color grading.