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Broadcasting colours
Posted by Susan Miller on April 30, 2009 at 10:06 amHi everybody,
when doing a dvd project for TV. How do you guys handle the problem with broadcasting safe colours.
I heard that the AE plug in is not that good.
Are there any other ways to make sure that the whatever i doing for that project in Broadcasting safe colours?Thanks
Todd Kopriva replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies -
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Bartek Skorupa
April 30, 2009 at 11:13 amhttps://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/broadcast_safe/video-tutorial.php
Bartek Skorupa
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Todd Kopriva
April 30, 2009 at 1:53 pmI heard that the AE plug in is not that good.
The Broadcast Colors effect is fine for determining which colors are not broadcast-safe. The problems come when you depend on that effect to automatically make all of the color changes for you. In the documentation for that effect, I recommend using it as a diagnostic tool, but not to automatically change your color values.
Color Finesse has some features for keeping colors broadcast-safe.
This After Effects Community Help search for ‘broadcast colors’ pulls up several resources that can help you with this question, including the tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz here on the COW that Bartek mentioned.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Todd Kopriva
April 30, 2009 at 3:45 pmI definitely agree with Dave that—whatever you use to find the out-of-range colors—you fix them yourself. You certainly don’t want a simplistic software algorithm to affect all colors when you only need to tweak one little thing.
I also agree that scopes are the best way to do the diagnosis. I haven’t used Scopo Gigio myself, but I’ve heard good things about it. If you don’t have it, though, the software scopes in Color Finesse are better than nothing.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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