Spyder3Pro monitor calibration in Snow Leopard

I've just tried to install the latest version of Colorvision's Spyder3Pro software for monitor calibration, and it appears to need Rosetta. Since I've decided not to install Rosetta (I can live without monitor calibration for a while), does anyone know if Colorvision are bringing out a native Intel build of software (32- or 64-bit) any time soon?

Are you kidding? Rosetta only takes up 3 MB (not GB) of disk space and has ZERO impact on performance. It's only utilized when you run legacy software, and only while that software is running, and any slowdown is experienced only by that application due to the Rosetta emulation.
Why would you not utilize a program if it uses Rosetta and give up something as important as screen calibration? That's crazy in my book. Is having maximum performance while you are calibrating your monitor something that is important? You won't even notice it.

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Monitor Calibration under Snow Leopard 10.6.6

Hello,
I´m using a EIZO CE 240 W hardware-calibrated monitor for Photoshop and a second one connected with it for the tools, which worked perfectly under Tiger, but doesn´t work properly under Snow Leopard. Does anybody know this problem? When I disconnect the second monitor it works, apparently Snow Leopard doesn´t work with two monitor profiles. The color is too yellow-greenish.
Please help! Best wishes,
Peter

Recently upgraded from OS X 10.5 to Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and am finding that both Quicktime Pro 7 and QT Player X save movies EXTREMELY slowly - like a factor of ten slower than before. Can't find anything about this, but it can't be right - it's really unusable.
Are you "saving" or "exporting/sharing" the content? (I.e., what are the containers, audio and video compression formats, and dimensions of both your source and output files?)

Is Pantone's Huey Monitor Calibrator slowing Snow Leopard or interfering?

I installed a Huey Color corrector on my iMac and, although everything went OK for weeks, I am now experiencing a 6-8 seconds delay before the characters for my password appear in the sign-in field.
I brought my iMac to the Genius Bar at the Apple store and they diagnosed a problem with Huey software, and apparently it is dealt with on their site.
Has any of you experienced that problem?
Thanks,
Raphael

Hi-
I am not having that behavior you describe with my Cinema display (#1) and an Eizo (#2). The Display pane in System Preferences Opens two panels, one on each monitor and each display can be set to its calibrated profile, which will remain with it when the Tool Bar is moved from one to the other. This is in 10.6.2 on a Mac Pro with two video cards, one for each display.
My problem has been unwanted orange or magenta coloration of the entire Eizo screen after calibrating it with i1 or Eizo software, all of the latest, 10.6 compatible issues.
I hooked the Eizo up to my old 2.0 GHz G5 PowerMac with 10.5.8 and had the same coloration problem.The only commonality among the two was the display and the software, as I only ran the Eizo calibration (of the appropriate variety, for 10.5) and had the same orange coloration problem.
Today I found a newer, 10.6 compatible diagnostic test tool for my i1 Display2 calibration device and it passed that test. I then calibrated both displays with i! software and so far have seen the magenta cast on the Eizo in the Calibrated Mode.
So I still don't know entirely what is happening except that I cannot seem to calibrate my Eizo display, which I bought to match prints to the display after a long and painful siege trying to produce a useable b&w print using an Epson printer and the Cinema display.
We'll see what happens next.
Bill

Final Cut Pro 7 monitor gamma and Snow Leopard?

With Leopard and FCP6 I was told I needed to calibrate my monitor to 1.8 gamma. Does this still hold true for FCP7 running under Snow Leopard or can I now use a monitor calibrated to 2.2 gamma?
Many thanks!

the black sun wrote:
... and on top of that, I recently read that a Gamma setting of 2.6 is being touted as the one to aim for as far as video is concerned.
Sorry, but again - any source of that value being aimed for video ?
One note I found was regarding cinema projector - very specific target - not video...
In 2005, leveraging color science research, the movie studios’ Digital Cinema Initiative selected a gamma of 2.6 as providing the best perceptual quality for 12-bit cinema projection.

HOW to temporarily use Broadcast monitoring work on snow leopard OS X v10.6.8 for FINAL CUT PRO X

thx,macmacmac give me prompt.He had an interesting trick for getting the OS X Lion 'only' plugin to work on Snow Leopard
To install the plugin on Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 you have to temporarily change your system version number to Lion 10.7.2!
1. Go to HD:/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
2. Copy the file to the Desktop
3. Open the original with a text editor and change the string value of 'ProductVersion' and 'ProductUserVisibleVersion' to '10.7.2'.
4. Save & Overwrite.
I suddenly thought Apple said that Broadcast monitoring work on Lion OS X v10.7.3.I change system version number at once! Changing 10.6.8 snow leopard system version number to Lion 10.7.2!
ok,no problem. Restart final cut pro x,A/V output has appeared in FINAL CUT PRO X preferences and Window Menu
Enjoy it.HAHA!:cheer:

thanks for the tip fan!

Upon rebooting my left and right external monitor on my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro switch sides, right to left.

I'm using two plugable UGA-2K-A ( http://plugable.com/products/UGA-2K-A/ ). They work great for USB graphics, but how can I stop the configuration changes?

I found the solution to this problem on another website, tried it and it worked!!!
10.6: Re-enable LCD font smoothing for some monitors
Mon, Aug 31 2009 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by astrosmash
There is a bug in Snow Leopard that disables LCD (sub-pixel) font smoothing on many third party LCD displays, including models from Dell, Samsung, LG, HP, EIZO, and Lenovo. Here are the details:
Snow Leopard introduces simplified Font Smoothing options under the Appearance pane in System Preferences. Prior to Snow Leopard, the available options were:
Automatic - Best for Main Display
Standard - Best for CRT
Light
Medium - Best for Flat Panel
Strong
In Snow Leopard, you can only choose between Automatic and Standard CRT. Since few people use CRTs these days, most users now have only one option: Automatic. The problem with the Automatic option is that OS X incorrectly detects many third party LCD monitors as CRTs, and consequently, disables LCD font smoothing.
You can force OS X to use LCD font smoothing on all displays with this Terminal command:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
The number 2 here corresponds to Medium - Best for Flat Panel. You may also use 1 for light smoothing, and 3 for strong smoothing, as per the original OS X font smoothing options.

Degraded Monitor Performance Post Snow Leopard Install

Hi.
I have noticed substantial degraded Monitor Performance since installing Snow Leopard. The Monitor is an NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2. The picture is "washed out" looking. Any ideas what the problem might be? The Monitor Settings are as followngs:
Brightness 50.0%
Contrast 43.0%
Sharpness 50.0%
Advanced DV Mode is "on"
DV Mode is set for Text
The Graphics Card is the standard Mac Mini Intel GMA950 with 64MB of shared system memory.
Thanks for any suggestions on how to get the performance back for this monitor.
Mike

Are you aware that the default display gamma has been switched from 1.8 to the default value of 2.2? If you want to build a 1.8 profile, then you still can. Some interpret the change as degradation.
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Temperature Monitor software and Snow Leopard

On my Mac Pro Core Temperatures are not displayed with Snow Leopard as they are under Leopard. Do I have a problem or do others notice this?

Berkley,
I'd try reinstalling whatever software you're running, I assume Temperature Monitor from Marcel Bresink. It's possible there's a SL update you didn't get yet. Also try Using his Hardware monitor in demo mode. I'm seeing my core temps clearly under Snow Leopard.
Also, sometimes quitting and restarting the monitor software helps. Several times if necessary. Temperature Monitor has some menu items that are helpful if readings don't display, like Rescan Sensor Configuration and Update All Readings Now. Try those.
Hope that helps,
Rob

Snow Leopard killed my vga displays!!

This is by far the most weird problem I have ever encountered after upgrading to a new OS.
I run a company where we have something like 15 different Macs. Mostly Intel, but different ages, Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, iMacs, Mac Mini etc.
A couple of days ago I wanted to upgrade one of the Mac Pros to Snow Leopard. It's an early 2008 3.1 with ATI hd 2600 graphics. I wanted to do a clean install, but instead of backing up everything from the system drive, I pulled it out and put in a new clean one. This way I could retrieve the data from the old drive when I need it through a USB docking station or something.
Installation went by fast and without any problems what so ever.
But first thing I noticed when the first bootup was completed was that the resolution of my monitors were suddenly completely wrong. I have two Samsung Syncmaster 2343nw monitors connected through vga, and they have always been detected and automatically been set to the correct resolution in the display preferences dialog by the old Leopard. I have around 9 of these monitors working as dual displays on Leopard machines, and a few working as extra external monitors for a couple of Macbook Pros running both Snow Leopard and Leopard. They are all connected via an dvi to vga converter and they always get detected correctly as "Syncmaster" in Display preferences.
But suddenly now, they just show up as "VGA Monitor" in Display preferences.
After fighting with this for a couple of hours trying all the suggested workarounds I could find, zapping PRAM deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist changing the cables and so on, I finaly gave up. Fortunately I didn't overwrite the old Leopard installation so of cause I could just swap the drives back and everything should be dandy after booting back into the old Leopard install.
But **** no! Now the resolution was equally messed up in Leopard! And none of the two monitors were detected as "Syncmaster" in display pref. Now they only show up as "VGA Monitor" as they did in Snow. ***?? How can an OS mess with a monitors plug 'n' play capabilities?
I then tried the obvious which was to try and reset the monitors, remove power from them, Zap the PRAM again. I even tried a different graphics card (that didn't work in this machine) but what ever I did, the monitors where no longer detectable by the OS.
Next step was to take some identical monitors from a different machine. And yes, they where detected by Leopard on the problem machine. Since I couldn't believe that Snow had actually ruined the other two monitors I booted back into Snow hooping that it would now detect these other identical monitors. But no, same problem. Back to Leopard, and once again now suddenly these couldn't be detected by Leopard either.
I have since tried these monitors on all the other Macs I have in the company, and only one machine with an nVidia card is able to detect them correctly as Syncmaster. But none the less also this machine isn't able to see the monitors native resolution thus making it impossible to select the right setting for the monitor.
So now I have 4 monitors that's virtually unusable after being in contact
I have read a lot about people who who suddenly can't use their secondary monitor after upgrading to Snow Leopard and that Apple is aware of this, and that 10.6.4 should address this problem when we finally get some new graphic drivers. But I haven't heard about anybody who's monitor lost it's plug 'n' play capabilities after being in contact with Snow Leopard.
But maybe someone here has had any similar experience? Maybe somebody else has had luck with upgrading a dual vga monitor system to Snow Leopard? I would love to get some ideas on what happened since these monitors doesn't really work anymore on any computer.
Thanks!

Hmm... I know that the screens native refresh rate is at 60 Hz and the resolution is 2048 x 1152. I'm unable to check it out now but I'm pretty sure I can't select 60Hz. They only have VGA connectors (the same as D-Sub I guess?) And the closest I can get to the right resolution is 1920x 1280 (or maybe it's 1200, not sure) which looks almost right, but then again not, and a whole lot more fuzzy than it used to be.
On some machines the displays are detected as "Display" and on others "VGA monitor" or "VGA display". It's supposed to detect as "Syncmaster". Nothing changes if I press "Detect". I've only tried on machines running 10.5.8, and one brand new iMac running 10.6.3 through a display port to vga converter.
But thanks for link to the toms article. I'll give it a read

Colors not consistent with Snow Leopard 10.6 on an Eizo SX2761W monitor

I am unable to get any color consistency with Snow Leopard 10.6 on my Eizo SX2761W display.
Most of the actual "content" (i.e. images, videos, websites, etc.) is displayed very saturated and dark, much more saturated and dark than in 10.5.8. I presume that's because of Snow Leopard's new gamma value. The problem is, all of OS X's GUI elements, like the dock, icons and color labels in the finder, title bar buttons, etc. are not displayed in the same manner. These elements are all very desaturated, pale and grayish. NoMachine NX sessions running in X11 (via Rosetta) also have this desaturated look in Snow Leopard.
Here's a screenshot comparison I put together, that shows those color inconsistencies using the example of Mozilla's Firefox logo on the web in Safari, on the web in an NX session and as an icon in the Finder and in the Dock:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/7276/SnowLeopard-ColorsAndContrast.png (1 MB)
As far as I could test it, I get these color/contrast discrepancies only on the Eizo SX2761W monitor. I checked this on a classic Mac Pro and a late Mac mini with the same results. On a MacBook and its internal display Snow Leopard's colors seem consistent.
I tried to recalibrate the SX2761W profile, I tried out all the other standard color profiles available in Snow Leopard, I tried to copy my old profiles over from a Leopard backup, but I was unable to get rid of the display inconsistencies. After a whole day of trying and tinkering I went back to 10.5.8 to get a consistent color environment back.
Any ideas what's causing this and more importantly what to do about it? I have to say I'm at my wits end. The only thing I can think of is mailing this issue to Apple in the hope there will be a point release in the not too distant future that fixes the problem.

I have what I assume is the same problem. It just started today on my DELL WFP2407 - but remains even when switching to my MacBook Pro's built in screen.
The Dock, Safari, the desktop background - and probably other colour managed applications; all show very pale blue hues with over saturated red. Blue goes towards purple and other colours get muddled and pale. Oddly the Finder displays colours correctly on icons, but not the dock. I took a screenshot of Finder's Safari icon next to The Dock's:
http://www.nuxx.dk/hosting/paledock.png
- Clearly showing significant inconsistency... I just updated to 10.6.1 which didn't change anything.
Needless to say I tried calibrating a new colour profile to no effect, and seeing as the finder itself renders things just fine I'm not sure that's where the issue lies.
This is a huge problem for me, I hope there is a simple solution.
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Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...

Also ColorEyes Display Pro, Snow Leopard, Eizo monitor, and PS CS4 are not playing well together. I I "dumb down" the calibrating software, I can get a result but that's another issue (sorta?)
I have tried several software calibration attempts from different manufacturers (Spyder, Apple, Eizo), even Apple's own built in calibrator and despite this PS CS4 visually hates all the profiles I select on the Apple Cinema HD (both LUT and Matrix, both manually tuned and system controlled on the profiling).All of this despite having the notorious "Open GL" turned off. It just looks bad in CS4 (colors are noticeably off), and the menu bar is on that monitor. Weird. This does not happen in other apps tested w/ the color of the monitor.
Any help? Thanks

I have reported a possibly related issue with my main display profile in the Adobe Color Management Forum and Apple Discussions. It is not exactly the same issue, because you don't need Photoshop to see it. I upgraded 2 machines to Snow Leopard, and only one has the problem. Unfortunately, that one is my work machine. Never mind... I know, I know.
In the Color Management Forum, I posted a screen shot that shows the issue clearly. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/488570?tstart=0
It is very puzzling. The same custom display profile appears differently in Snow Leopard, on the same hardware. Also, I haven't yet been able to create a satisfactory profile in Snow Leopard using my Eye1 Display2 calibrator. My work machine is an early 2008 Mac Pro with Apple 30" Cinema Display. This setup looks quite different on the same profile as before. My 2007 MacBook Pro 17" at home also had a custom profile, and looks exactly the same as before the Snow Leopard upgrade. Go figure.
I booted back into the clone of my old Leopard system that I of course made before the upgrade, and the screen looks just fine there. I got a screen capture of Apple's red, yellow & green window control buttons in Leopard, then displayed this screen shot in Preview in Snow Leopard, so you can see the vibrant & contrasty look from Leopard right next to the soft, dull, washed-out look in Snow Leopard. It boggles my brain how Snowy can display the Leopard look in the image, but not in its own interface elements.
Not many reports of this issue yet.

MacBook Spring 2010 Snow Leopard won't work with External Samsung Monitor

Hi,
I have a MacBook I purchased about a month ago and it's not working with my Samsung SyncMaster 940 BW. I am using Mini DisplayPort out with a Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adaptor which goes into my SyncMaster Monitor. I have tried rebooting, and also playing around with my laptop resolution, but otherwise I have no idea what to do about this.
I've read on the discussions that this is a known Snow-Leopard issue but I thought I might post to see if this has been resolved. I run all the updates but the monitor still isn't working?

A better place to post would be in the The MacBook Pro Display (2008 and Later) forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1294

Installing from Tiger to Snow Leopard using only external monitor?

Backstory: I currently have a mac book pro which i procured from a friend after he dropped it and broke the screen. He promptly went to the apple store and bought a new one and had them swap the hard drives. After hearing this I told him he could most likely still use the old one with an external monitor even if the screen was broken. I hooked up an external monitor myself and what do you know the Tiger set up screen came up and i proceeded to set up this mac book pro for use.
The issue:
I now wish to upgrade this laptop to snow leopard or to leopard than snow leopard. The problem being when I insert the Snow Leopard disc into the drive and click install os when the computer reboots and reaches the set up screen it uses the second monitor as an extended desktop, not as a duplicate.
This means i cannot see the install screens and therefore cannot upgrade.
The F7 shortcut seems to do nothing which is sad because it worked in the initial setup of tiger.
Does anyone know a workaround so I can duplicate the screens? Why would this not be the default behavior? What is the point of extending the desktop DURING setup?
Also it seems some people are reporting problems with external monitors not being properly recognized once 10.6.3 is installed. Is there certain external monitors which avoid this?

You could boot the laptop in target mode and install the OS from another computer onto the laptop drive.

Using only the external monitor in Snow Leopard?

Greetings,
I primarily use an external monitor with my macbook (latest gen.) Is there an easier way turn off the laptop screen when connected to an external screen (e.g. a key combination that will turn off the laptop screen to switch to external screen-only mode)?
My current song-and-dance involves:
- turn on laptop (with mains power connected)
- close lid
- hit a key in my external keyboard
- open lid again to facilitate ventilation
I was hoping snow leopard would have finally addressed this pain with a simply key combo?! This is one thing that is easy in the PC world
Thas

If you have an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected, it will shut off the main screen when you close the lid. If you open the lid, it will turn the display back on.

I'm trying to load the Snow Leopard disc into my older 20" monitor but it isn't working...

Hi, I'm old school still using the OS 10.5.8 on my 20" monitor iMac, I've purchased the snow leopard upgrade but the drive won't accept it and spits the disc out so how can I get the drive to read it?
I put the disc in and about 30 seconds later it spits the disc. I've attempted this procedure 8-10 times. Obviously, I need to upgrade so I ordered the Snow Leopard through Apple and they sent me the disc.
HELP! and Happy Holidays!!!

Your optical drive may be out of alignment or the laser may be dirty or the disc you received is defective.
What you can try is to use a different Mac that can read the DVD, if it's not defective. Get an 8 GB or larger USB flash drive. Partition it GUID and format it Mac OS Extended, Journaled. Clone the mounted DVD to the flash drive using Disk Utility.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the USB flash drive. Source means the mounted DVD on the Desktop.

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