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

Hi Marianna,

Can you keep me in the loop / CC?

It this is still an issue, I can alter QT change.

It's not hard, but, as said, I do not want to add options for just a very few users.

(It is too stupid for words, if the colr atom has the second value set to 0x02, set the gama atom to 'something else', and be done with it…)

Bouke / edit 'B

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On 20 Mar 2023, at 16:30, Marianna <marianna.montague@avid.com> wrote:

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

 

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