Re: [Avid-L2] OT: FCP and color levels

Job - I looked at this when I started using FCP as well as MC. I could
not make sense of it. I forget the exact details but it looked as
though FCP was either using 16-255 or 0-235 - ie both wrong. And I
really don't like looking at the FCP software scopes!
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With best wishes,

Roger Shufflebottom
roger@bottom-line.tv
http://www.bottom-line.tv

On 12 May 2010, at 19:44, Job ter Burg (L2) wrote:

I know, OT here, but I don't subscribe to the FCP-L.

Student of mine got a QT file back from color correction. File has color
levels at legal 709, 16-235 measured in 8-bit.

If we drag/import the file into FCP, it seems to lift the blacks and
lower
the whites. Ergo, it seems to treat any QT import as having 0-255
levels.

Is there any way around that in FCP?

On another system, with a BlackMagicDesign card installed, we found
that the
HDSDI output sends out legal levels (16-235 measured in 8-bit), but
the HDMI
output seems to have the levels expanded to 0-255. And we see no way to
correct that (on the Nitris DX system, there is an HDMI color space
setting,
and MC-Soft also lets you choose luma expansion on or off for FullScreen
display mode).

Any ideas, or is this just one of those clumsy things we'll need to work
around somehow?

Thx,

--
Job ter Burg
film editor - NL

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