Adding an ICC Monitor Profile

You may create a User Display Colour Space from an ICC Monitor Profile or other colour transform format. This may be used in Colour Management Preferences to describe your Graphics or Broadcast monitor. It may also be used as a Display in the View Transform tool or to configure a Viewing Rule or User View Transform.

Your User Display Colour Space is stored in your project and is part of the colour management Policy. However, note that the Graphics and Broadcast monitor settings are per workstation settings and therefore not part of the project-specific Policy. If you set one of your monitors to a User Display, be aware that you will need to reconfigure it if you then create or open a another project that does not contain that User Display.

The Sync to OS option available in the Colour Management Preferences on the Mac platform automatically creates a User Display Colour Space for the ICC Monitor Profile you have configured in your macOS System Display Preferences.

Add your transform by choosing "+Add New" from the Display menu in the View Transform tool or the Allowed Displays menu of the Viewing Rules in Preferences. The following information must be provided:

Transform File

Browse to select your LUT or colour transform file.

View Transform Name

Enter the name you want to see in menus for this new view transform. By default, for ICC Profiles, the creation date of the profile is appended.

Input Colour Space menu

Choose the colour space that your colour transform or ICC profile expects as input. Usually this should be CIE-XYZ. Choose "Raw" if you do not want the system to insert a translation transform to connect the output of a view transform to the input of your display transform.

Display Type menu

Select the type of display you are creating. This is used by the viewing rules to optionally limit certain rules to certain types of displays. (HDR = High Dynamic Range monitors, SDR = Standard Dynamic Range, conventional monitors.)

Apple XDR Displays

For Apple XDR displays, you should not use the Sync with OS button since there is no need to create a Flame Display Colour Space to match a custom ICC profile.

In the macOS Display Preferences for an XDR display, there are several presets that correspond to Flame Display Colour Space options. To take advantage of the HDR capabilities of these displays, we recommend following these instructions.