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How to deal with color differences across web browsers

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11 Jul 2017 23:47 #89329 by mindbend
I know this has been discussed many times in many places. I am looking for the specific workflow to deal with the fact that movies uploaded to Vimeo/Youtube look different (color) when viewed in different web browsers.

Here is a sample clip for reference.

vimeo.com/225175961

It appears oversaturated and red-heavy in Firefox. Same for Chrome initially, but when I refreshed Chrome, the color profile seemed to click in and now it looks same as Safari.

My understanding is that since FCPX is color managed and so is Safari, videos look pretty much identical in either.

My question is this…what exactly do I need to do when preparing my FCPX media to ensure the most consistent (I know it can't be perfectly consistent) viewing experience for everyone on every device. I just want a workflow so that I can feel confident that someone viewing my video on a Samsung phone, for example, will see it reasonably close to my original and not oversaturated and red-heavy.

HELP!! :)

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12 Jul 2017 01:38 #89330 by JoeEditor
Properly calibrated broadcast monitor...

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12 Jul 2017 03:35 #89331 by Karsten Schlüter
interesting …
never noticed SUCH a difference:



lower half: Safari, upper left: Chrome, upper right: Firefox.
S + C no difference, but FF indeed darker and reddish …

As those video-hosters transcode uploads anyhow, I dare to say, little you can do.....
Are your uploads a 100% standard conform, have you add a Broadcast Safe Filter to it?
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12 Jul 2017 15:10 #89336 by Jonathan Levin
I believe that the only person that a calibrated monitor works well for is the person who has calibrated their set up. Not to say that it's a bad idea and I regularly calibrate my equipment, but the fact is, the majority of the rest of the world who are not in our line of work does not. Sure back in the days of print, you would try and sync your color for pre-press and so on.

There are just to many variables for calibration to ever become universal in my view. For the obvious reasons: where is video being viewed? Age of device? What brand? So many things.

I go through this all the time. I wish there was a way....

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12 Jul 2017 19:56 #89340 by JoeEditor
Calibrated Broadcast Monitor, video interface to connect to it, that's all, nothing else needs "calibrating". At least you know the color grade is correct in a raw image. After that, there's no real way to control how an image looks on a variety of computers and browsers. For the web, Apple's ColorSync is normally good enough. But still, so many configurations of computers and GPU cards and monitors, there's no way to control how it shows everywhere.

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13 Jul 2017 03:32 #89347 by Karsten Schlüter
'calibration' etc does not explain my screen-grab, gentlemen ;) …
(no 'photo' from diff. displays, but a digital copy on one Mac, illustrating how diff. browsers handle colour different)

… anyhow …

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13 Jul 2017 11:56 #89352 by JoeEditor
I think Karsten's graphic is basically what you get. There is no way to control how your image will look on various social media uploads, using various browsers, considering the variety of hardware combinations out there. No way to control it. You get the best raw image color grade you can get, and that's that.

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13 Jul 2017 12:05 #89355 by Karsten Schlüter
… one should notice, that Firefox is in the OPs list of browsers the one which does NOT use webkit… 

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