Hello,
I have made a full length animation that has a logo to a TV spot we do. The logo has the color green with an RGB value of B5FF00. I have no way to check the levels of the color in illustrator or After Effects, but when it was brought into an editor it was over 100 IRE. I brought the color down, but it looks so bad that I dont like the green anymore. Its an HD animation that will be broadcast. Is there a way to get a saturated green that doesnt look dark or like its been left out in the sun all day?
Re: Broadcast Specs by Chris Wright on Jul 22, 2008 at 8:23:39 pm
you're looking to change an illegal broadcast chroma without it turning ugly. Use a smart interpolater like color finesse or red giant broadcast. There might be a free way to do it and creative cow had something about checking it so I'm sure the tutorial talks about fixing it.
Re: Broadcast Specs by Chris Wright on Jul 23, 2008 at 8:58:24 am
adjustment layer-color correction->levels effect, input black 16 input white 235, ouput black 16 output white 235,
yea, I watched the tutorial...I'll compare results someday...
Re: Broadcast Specs by Kenneth Crawford on Jul 23, 2008 at 2:38:24 pm
another question I have is this. If I am working with HDV and my Graphics are FULL HD for this HD show, and we are mastering to HDV when the project is completed. We then send the product to the channel that broadcasts it and they convert it to SD so they can broadcast it, do I need to follow an NTSC broadcast color scheme? They will also use the HDV to broadcast it in HD on direct TV as well.
Re: Broadcast Specs by Dave LaRonde on Jul 23, 2008 at 3:41:15 pm
[Kenneth Crawford]"I have no way to check the levels of the color in illustrator or After Effects, but when it was brought into an editor it was over 100 IRE... Is there a way to get a saturated green that doesnt look dark or like its been left out in the sun all day? "
I like to use a plugin for AE called Scopo Gigio. It's a software vectorscope/waveform monitor. Check it out:
You can work with the editor to get the plugin set up to reflect what he needs. Then YOU can control the colors instead of him. Some things to know:
• Luminance isn't so much of a problem as Color Saturation
• HD allows more color saturation than SD
• If you ONLY have a computer monitor, fully-saturated colors for broadcast will always look washed-out. If you look at the same image on a broadcast monitor, the colors usually look great.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Broadcast Specs by Kenneth Crawford on Jul 24, 2008 at 2:02:12 pm
Okay thanks for all the information! it really helped alot, and I have checked out that plugin for After Effects and it seems to work very nice. Thank you!
