Adjust the brightness, contrast, and color settings of each device to match your calibrated monitor as much as possible. Additionally, you must watch your video on different devices like a computer monitor, TV, smartphone, or tablet. To test and review your output, you need to export your video using the best quality settings for your intended delivery platform, such as resolution, frame rate, bitrate, format, and codec.

This is essential as different devices and platforms have distinct display settings, resolutions, aspect ratios, and compression algorithms that can influence how your video appears. The final step of color grading is to test and review your output on different devices and platforms to ensure it looks good and consistent.

To use proxies and render previews, you need to create proxies with a compatible format and codec using your software's built-in feature or a third-party tool, link them to the original footage in the media browser or project panel, enable the proxy toggle in the viewer or timeline to switch between them, render previews with the render queue or export settings that match your final output settings, and enable the render preview toggle in the viewer or timeline to play back your footage with rendered effects or adjustments. Proxies are low-resolution copies of your original footage that you can use for editing and color grading without compromising quality, while render previews are temporary files generated to play back your footage smoothly after applying effects or adjustments.

Proxies and render previews are techniques that can help you improve the performance and speed of your editing and color grading software, particularly when using high-resolution, high-bitrate, or RAW formats.

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