Inaccurate color when processing RAW in Lightroom

When I try to edit photos I took with my Nikon Coolpix P330 in RAW format, I notice that areas that have a reddish color come out over saturated. In the same picture in JPEG format, the reddish colors are displayed correctly. Colors that are purple in real life and in the JPEG file show up as blue. Many of the other colors such as white and green show up correct in the JPEG and the RAW file. I have already calibrated my monitor though Windows 7.
What do I do so that Lightroom renders the colors accurately when I edit RAW files? What are some easy ways to get accurate colors and/or desired colors when I need them? Thank you.

As already pointed out, any rendering of an in-camera JPEG is the choice the manufacturer has made when it is processed by the camera. Some cameras allow these decisions to be influenced with camera menu choices but this is not the forum for that. one option for you if you want to make sure your camera sees color correctly is to build a profile for that specific camera so that when you take a picture of a red apple, the camera sees the proper color red. To do this, you need a tool such as the X-Rite Color Checker Passport and their software. You photograph the target, process the image in the software and you get a profile that you can apply to all images shot with that particular camera. This works best on RAW images. Also, this is only half the story.
Once your camera sees color correctly, your displays need to be able to properly reproduce that color. Have your profiled your display? If not, this is likely where the problem exists. Monitors are set to reproduce color in an sRGB color space. More expensive monitors can reproduce color in a larger color space (Adobe RGB) but over time, the accuracy of the reproduction drifts and often they start life out just a bit off. To know you screen will reproduce color accurately, you need to calibrate it. Once again, this requires a piece of hardware that reads the color patch being displayed on the screen and some software to build a profile that Lightroom and Photoshop can use to display the colors in your RAW and/or JPEG files. Trying to debug any other color issues is impossible if the accuracy of the color reproduction capabilities of the monitor are unknown.
If you have more than one screen, calibrate them both. Once that is done, the color should at least, right or wrong, be the same on both of them. This is especially true if the difference is showing up because you edit on one screen and then later, view them on another. As an example, the monitor you use to edit your images may be off. As you edit, you are compensating for the error. Then, you bring that same image up on another screen that is more accurate, and it looks all wrong. If you have not already, calibrate your scree(s) and then look at the problem image and see if it has changed. There are a number of monitor calibrators out there (X-Rite, Spyder, etc). I like the Color Monki Smile and it can calibrate your screen as well as your iPad/Android tablets.

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