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Color correct HDV in HD or SD?
Hi all,
I’m going to be submitting my HDV film to festivals on SD DVDs. I don’t have an external HD-DVD player, so I’d rather not run the risk of buying expensive discs that don’t burn correctly. I’m about to begin color correction, and I am equipped with a secondary, 23″ HD Apple Cinema Display monitor and the Matrox MXO, so I have the capibility to view my film in either broadcast-quality HD or SD. I will eventually (hopefully) be outputting to HDCAM once my film is accepted for screening. My question is, can I just color correct in HD now, or will I have more accurate results on my SD DVDs by color correcting in SD?
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We always color correct HD material in its native form for SD-DVD’s. The only time we’ll color correct in an SD timeline is if it’s for broadcast, then we’ll CC in the SD timeline.
The only thing to watch is red. As always, a lot of red will bleed if you push the chroma too far. But since you’re going to DVD for a film festival, broadcast safe doesn’t really apply.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Ah yes, I noticed a plethora of reds when I watched a test DVD of my film (pre-color correction) on my TV. Glad to hear that I won’t have to color correct twice!
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