Adjust Video Color Settings

Use the controls on this page to fine tune the color settings for video content on your display. Select one of the test images to monitor your changes. For best results, play a video while you make adjustment to view the changes as they happen.

Note: If you click the With the video player settings radio button, the NVIDIA settings are disabled so that you can control the video image through your video player.

Color

Brightness: Refers to the brightness of your video image.

Contrast: Refers to the difference between the lightest and darkest parts of the video image.  

Hue: Refers to the hue of the video image.

Saturation: Refers to the color level of your video image.

Gamma

Refers to the brightness of mid-tones without affecting shadows and highlights. Click the padlock icon to alternately open and close the padlock. 

[Padlock closed]: When the padlock is closed, the individual Red/Green/Blue channels all move together.

[Padlock opened]: When the padlock is opened you can adjust the gamma for each red, green, or blue color channel individually.

Advanced

Dynamic range:  You can select the dynamic range (16 to 235 or 0-255) of the video content to preserve black detail and white peaks based on the type of content being viewed.

Dynamic contrast enhancement: Dynamic contrast enhancement dynamically adjusts the brightness in movies and video to provide a better contrast on a scene by scene basis. This feature is applied on top of the manual brightness and contrast settings, which may need to be adjusted to achieve optimum benefit.

Color enhancement: Color enhancement adjusts blue, green, and skin tones in movies and video to provide a more vibrant picture.

 

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