DG System Back Level

Hello Craig & Company

We have been sending spots to DGDropBox for several months now. We are seeing poor on air results at some stations. The stations claim to be taking SDI out of their DR SpotBox servers. It appears to us that the spots have an added 7.5 ire of Setup. Our blacks look washed out and lighter parts of the spot look blurred.

We compress the spots with the black set a 0 and the stations report that the spot's black is at 7.5

DG claims that their playback devices are not adding anything to the SDI out. They say it must be in our compression setting, or that Episode is adding the 7.5 Setup.

I have taken the MPG file we created with Episode and converted it back to an MOV file then played it back thru a KONA card, we observed no black level changes.

I know for a fact that Composite out of the DG System SpotBox has 7.5 added, but I cannot get anyone to confirm or deny that 7.5 is also added to the SDI out.

Any insight on this would be appreciated

Fred

The Troupe - Modern Media Design & Production