This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: QT video levels?

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: QT video levels?

Yes, I believe your colour levels will be flagged as RGB on export.

I guess one workaround would be to transcode the finished pieces to
DnxHD at a suitable bitrate, and export that same-as-source using
601/709 levels.

Cheers,
--Michael

On 13-05-07 9:48 AM, michaeljshen76 wrote:
>
> I have a number of students exporting their finished thesis films.
> They've been editing in on MC 6.03 in Apple ProRes MXF. The plan was
> to color-correct in the 709 color space, and then have them export a
> Same-As-Source .mov using 601/709 settings. This would be their final
> master.
>
> Am I correct in understanding that the 601/709 setting won't work, and
> that color levels will expand to RGB levels upon export? What's the
> best workaround for this?
>
> Thanks for helping my offline editor brain with these online conundrums!
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Michael Brockington <brocking@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 6.0.3 this flag seems to be set properly by Avid for DNxHD exports.
> > ProRes exports in that version seem to be always flagged as RGB.
> >
> > I reported some testing results here comparing DNxHD vs ProRes
> > same-as-source exports on Mac:
> > http://community.avid.com/forums/p/113013/677905.aspx
> >
> > I suspect not all applications observe the flag that is set.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Michael
> >
> > On 13-05-07 3:57 AM, Fabrice Altman wrote:
> > >
> > > So... moving on from the goose ;)
> > >
> > > Apparently there is an internal flag in the exported DNxHD QT file
> > > that is supposed to be set to either RGB or 709 according to the
> > > export settings.
> > >
> > > However, this flag seems always set to 709 on export from MC 5.5,
> > > whatever the export settings are. Can anyone confirm this is a bug
> and
> > > has been fixed in later releases?
> > > (The flag seems to work on export from AFX).
> > > Does a similar flag exist in ProRes?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > F.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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