Re: [Avid-L2] Color in import.

No that's not necessarily true. Importing 0-255 as RGB into Avid tells Avid
to scale the 0-255 levels to 16-235. Do a straight export of that out to an
RGB QT and it will map your 16-235 back out to 0-255. So nothing's lost.
You may find that depending on codecs used, some slight shifting takes
place, but no highlight or black level detail should be lost.

Now if you import 0-255 as 709 into Avid, keeping the levels 0-255, and
then export as RGB, then yes, the export module will attempt to stretch
your levels back out and you'll clip a lot of highs and lows.


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Dario Caamaño <dario.caamano@gmail.com>wrote:

> **
>
>
> So that means that importing as RGB and then exporting to RGB, in this
> simple process, I lose colour data?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > You're correct. If you want to preserve the full 0-255 level, import as
> > 709, which tells MC to leave the levels alone.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:19 PM, caamada <dario.caamano@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > **
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> > >
> > >
> > > Hi. I'm from Argentine, south america, so sorry for my poor english.
> > > I have a doubt in Avid when I import material.
> > >
> > > If I have a RGB mov, and I import with the setting RGB in colordepth,
> > then
> > > the colours are squeeze to 609-709 (16-235).
> > > So, since 0-255 are squeeze to 16-235, this means that I lose a bit of
> > > color space? I need to do a colour correction so thats why I need all
> the
> > > colour data possible.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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