Hi All,

I'm a new user to LightIllusion / ColorSpace. I'm looking forward to getting into the software soon. But I have some questions about peoples experience with simultaneous measurements. For some of our workflows, I will post-process color data myself and during these workflows I want to run a dual meter configuration. I'd like to run both my CR-300 and my CR-120 simultaneously, for some of the brightest range of color patches the CR-120 will be over exposed and report an error on its serial interface, and below a certain threshold I want to skip CR-300 measurements. I will calculate the colorimeter correction based on the intersection of these datasets and merge the results.

My question is: when using colorspace with two measurement probes I've seen the workflow involves basically setting up two measurement windows, similar to how I imagine ColorSpace handles dual monitor workflows, and then exporting the data. If one of the measurements fails (for example, measurement set 1 is the CR120 and it is over exposed at 5000 nits) will the software enter NaN's or some other flag in the data fields? Or will this cause a software stop / characterization failure?

Thanks,

Patiently awaiting my license key
-Tucker

You can pre-read your required color patches—let's say 1000 patches—using a virtual probe.

Once the full reading is complete, you can leverage the data filtering feature to roughly split them into two groups based on luminance, depending on your instrument's performance. Then, export them as custom measurement targets.

Hand over the darker patches to the CR-120 and the brighter ones to the CR-300.

This ensures that neither target exceeds the performance limits of the instruments. You can then run both reading tasks simultaneously and merge the data once both are finished.

After merging, you'll be able to generate the 3D LUT and do whatever else you need.