I just upgraded to a new computer with an ASUS PB238Q monitor and an nVidia GeForce GTX 650 video card, and its color balance is completely different from my old Dell laptop. My Dell has a warm gold cast and a somewhat desaturated look; my ASUS/nVidia combo has a more accurate white balance, but the DeEd 2.0 colors look garish and weird now.
At first I thought it was my monitor that was causing the DeEd colors to look weird, but now I'm wondering if it's my video card settings. Using the video sliders on VLC, and particularly the hue, I was able to match the colors on my new computer to the ones on my old laptop.
Here's how the Fox logo looks on my new computer with default settings:
And here's the VLC approximation of how it looks on my old laptop. It's not exact, because the colorspace of the PNG doesn't seem to match the colorspace of the player (my video card is set to only use 16-235, but the VLC snapshot may be converting the image to 0-255?). Still, it's close:
The problem is, that color setting messes up other parts of the film. Here's the lightsaber duel on my new computer:
Here's what it looks like using the same VLC settings as before:
Obviously, that's wrong. For this scene, I can't match it to how it looks on my laptop. Which is fine, this shot actually looks good with the standard colors on my new computer; on my laptop, Vader's saber looks a little less magenta and Ben's looks a little more cyan, but this is close enough. Also, I know you're planning on tweaking this scene.
I will also say that when I try to use nVidia's control panel to match the colors of video displays to my old computer, VLC's snapshots still output with the colors in the top image. (Maybe tweaking the colors for my entire desktop would fix that, but I'm not sure if those are wrong.)
Which of those images is closest to how the DeEd colors are SUPPOSED to look? Have I just gotten used to colors that are wrong, or is my display actually messed up? I'm not even sure if the images I'm posting will look to you the way they look to me.