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If you use Light Illusion’s LightSpace CMS or SpectraCal’s Calman for display calibration, you can now use DaVinci Resolve as a sync-able pattern generator. This means you can use DaVinci Resolve to output color patches, synchronized by LightSpace, to your display through whichever video interface is connected to your computer. These synchronized color patches will be analyzed by a monitor probe that’s also controlled by LightSpace, which stores the probe data and compares it to the original color values of the output color values in order to characterize that display.
To use this feature, you must first have a licensed copy of LightSpace CMS, which is a Windows application. Synchronization depends on a wired or wireless LAN being available to connect the LightSpace application with DaVinci Resolve.
1 Open LightSpace on the Windows computer that’s running it.
2 When LightSpace is open, click the Network Manager button. A window appears displaying the two network IP addresses used by LightSpace. Note these, and click the Enable button.
The Network Manager dialog in LightSpace CMS
3 In DaVinci Resolve, choose Workspace > Monitor Calibration > LightSpace.
4 When the LightSpace dialog opens, enter the second of the two network IP addresses LightSpace lists into the Remote Machine field, and make sure the Port number matches. Then click the Connect button.
The Calibration dialog in DaVinci Resolve, connected to LightSpace CMS via WiFi