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Syncing Color Space
I was wondering if anyone could offer me a hand in the following.
I am trying to output a project from FCP via compressor in an sRGB color space for delivery on a .M2V codec.
1-Corrected and looks great in FCP
2-adjustments made and looks great in Compressor (preview)
3-looks like crap on numerous windows machines. Color, Contrast and Gamma goes out dramatically.It is my understanding that windows uses sRGB profile or sRGB IEC1966.-2.1 (I tried them both) with the same results.
Where am I going wrong?
Any help would be much appreciated and all the best.
Johnny Megalos
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4 Replies
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I don’t see the point of working in FC in RGB unless the most of the stuff you are putting in your time-line is RGB and you want to end-up in a RGB. If you work in Y’CbCr you can work with more bit-depth (10b instead of 8) and as long as .m2v is YCbCr too, you avoid the unpredictable jump from one color space to the other.
rafael -
Sorry to clarify, I meant my monitors were calibrated to sRGB.
As far as I have read, windows uses SRGB color space.
Any thoughts?
Johnny Megalos
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This sounds like an impossible situation.
as Rafalaos stated your forcing a YrCr codec to be sRGB.
That will not produce the results your looking for.
You have to keep it YrCr if you want it to look right.If I understand you correctly.
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Hi Johny,
Yes I thoutgh you were exporting in RGB.
If you are working with DV, you shoudn’t change the gamma of your Mac monitor. Think that when you see your video in the FCs canvas FC IS ALREADY CHANGING THE GAMMA for preview purposes so what you get in you canvas is how will look (more or less) in a PC or a TV set. If you change the gamma by your self you will miss the visual refference. There are other applications (Shake,AE ) that you have to change that gamma of your screen to fake the gamma of a TV or PC, but not with FC.
If you make a search in googles (PC TV Mac gamma) you will find a lot of information about this particular matter.
Cheers,
rafael
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