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  film scans at legal values?

  Posted by Lou Cannizzo on December 11, 2011 at 1:26 am

  Hi all,

  I just recieved some footage that was filmed on 35mm and film scaned to ProresQT.
  The Editor took the footage,edited it and rendered out a Prores 10 bit QT for me to color grade. When I imported it and looked at my RGB Parade, it shows a range from 64-235. I was expecting the data to be full range.

  So,my questions are:
  1. Do I have to ask for another render with extended values?
  2. If I use what I have, will it cause any problems grading?
  3. What should I tell the guy to render it out in ie: prores 444, etc. in order to get full range.
  4. OR is this normal to receive legal values for grading?

  Thanks
  Lou

  Charlie Edison replied 14 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Robert Houllahan

  December 12, 2011 at 12:37 am

  Was it originally scanned on a machine like an Arriscan to DPX frames and then rendered to Pro-ResHQ? Or was it a video transfer from a telecine to Pro-Res? You are definitely missing allot if it is legal 8-bit video.

  -Rob-

  Robert Houllahan
  Director / Colorist
  Cinelab Inc.
  http://www.cinelab.com

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  Charlie Edison

  December 12, 2011 at 1:25 am

  Sounds like you have LOG scans,

  you should be fine color grading to where ever you push it, bit if you want to see linear from you log,just apply a LOG-LIN lut ..

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