Re: [Avid-L2] Quicklimes with wrong levels flags.

Hi Dave

 

Apologies as I meant to send this Friday……..

 

I ran this by Robert who works in our PM team and was a long time user before joining Avid. 

 

He had a few suggestions.

 

The first suggestion is to upgrade, but that's probably not likely to happen.  ProRes HQ and ProRes 4:4:4:4, are treated as full range in newer MC versions and so are the DNxHR codecs.     DPX is painfully slow on older versions of MC so I get why they want to export a wrapped file.  If the file is going to color, they can flag it in color without having to re-render.  Resolve does this with a simple check box. 

 

Secondly, there are other tools similar to QT Change that handle this for the non-technical person, but they are not free.  cineXtools Meta is one of them that I trust with the metadata of a file.  https://cinextools.com  You might recognize some of the guys in the testimonial videos down at the bottom. 😊

 

There is in fact a way to export without video levels in older MC… this may help:  https://community.avid.com/forums/t/196218.aspx   and.    https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/comm/AVID+-+Exporting+and+protecting+your+luminance+levels  

 

I would suggest is for you to export ProRes HQ or ProRes 4:4:4:4.  Many applications (including Resolve) had an issue with the ProRes spec in treating anything below HQ as legal range.

 

Hope that helps but if not let me know and I can deep drill it further.

 

Marianna

 

Marianna Montague
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