I've just uploaded the trailer for our first film to Vimeo & people are telling me it looks too dark.
I graded the film in FCPX using a calibrated Dell U2410 where it looks fine. It also looks fine burned to DVD and played on our TV (albeit a centuries-old Sony CRT).
But it does look too dark on my laptop display (Mac Retina). And yes, I understand that I can turn up the brightness, but it's already set to a level I'd normally use for photography (I'm a pro photographer, so I understand these things).
So, should I write this off as people just having crappily uncalibrated screens?
The video is at https://vimeo.com/zolascope/impasse-trailer, but don't rush straight there the moment I post this as I've just uploaded a new version and it's stuck in Vimeo's queue (as of 19 Oct 21:00 CEST there's 40 mins to wait before conversion starts).
Would appreciate any insights, though.
I graded the film in FCPX using a calibrated Dell U2410 where it looks fine. It also looks fine burned to DVD and played on our TV (albeit a centuries-old Sony CRT).
But it does look too dark on my laptop display (Mac Retina). And yes, I understand that I can turn up the brightness, but it's already set to a level I'd normally use for photography (I'm a pro photographer, so I understand these things).
So, should I write this off as people just having crappily uncalibrated screens?
The video is at https://vimeo.com/zolascope/impasse-trailer, but don't rush straight there the moment I post this as I've just uploaded a new version and it's stuck in Vimeo's queue (as of 19 Oct 21:00 CEST there's 40 mins to wait before conversion starts).
Would appreciate any insights, though.