• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  100% colour bars?

  Posted by Penelope Wylder on August 26, 2009 at 9:29 am

  I’ve been asked to use 100% colour bars on the front of a PAL program – can anyone tell me which of the colour bars that FCP offers are the 100% bars?

  Many thanks in advance.

  Peta

  Editor / Colorist
  http://www.petaridley.com

  Rafael Amador replied 16 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Peter Wiggins

  August 26, 2009 at 10:39 am

  FCP doesn’t have 100% colour bars

  I think the Decklink download does though

  https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software/

  Peter
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  Rafael Amador

  August 26, 2009 at 6:02 pm

  Right.
  EBU bars are 75% intensity and 100%saturation, except the withe that is 100% intensity (0 saturation of course) and the Black (0 intensity, no saturation).
  100% Intensity bars are illegal.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Peter Wiggins

  August 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm

  nope not in the UK they are not.
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  Rafael Amador

  August 30, 2009 at 1:24 am

  Hi Peter,
  You may be talking about the BBC color bars.
  They are used for testing, but you can never broadcast a 100% saturation, 100% intensity color bars.
  The Luma+ Chroma in a composite video signal would be much higher than the 133 IRE allowed.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Tom Early

  September 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

  you CAN get 100% colour bars in FCP, just go to the generator and select ‘more bars and signals’. There is a drop-down menu in the controls tab in the viewer, I believe, and you can select 100& bars there.
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  Rafael Amador

  September 17, 2009 at 1:19 am

  No.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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