Re: A Nice Plus

Jim,

I'm glad it's working better for you, but the gamma issue is a QT playback issue more than anything else, so it really doesn't matter how it looks in FCP X. I've never had a problem with how I see things in FCP 7 and the output in broadcast, within the tolerances of display calibrations. Same for FCP X and Premiere Pro.

I recently had a spot done in FCP X which I cut in ProRes at an SD size. I simply could not get a proper looking conversion through Squeeze using the exported ProRes from FCPX. I was converting to H264 and WMV. If I took that file into FCP 7 and rendered an uncompressed version and exported it, that looked correct. By correct, I mean it looked the same as it did in FCP X. A direct H264 export using the share function or Compressor also looked fine. So ColorSync sort of works with some codecs and in a closed environment, but not universally. Some of this appears to be codec dependent.

Ultimately this has little if anything to do with any of the NLEs. The problem is QT as a player and decoder, most of the time, because QT is trying to second-guess the image in order to make it right for your display.

Oliver

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