• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  text layer alters picture luminance

  Posted by Jason Fisher on February 24, 2011 at 3:32 pm

  When I add a simple text layer, the brightness of the shot is reduced slightly. When the text cuts off, the shot gets lighter. What gives?

  Jason Fisher replied 15 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  February 24, 2011 at 11:32 pm

  What are you using to generate the text layer? Is it FCP’s text gen, Boris, Manifesto, a PSD from photoshop?, Motion?
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  Jason Fisher

  February 25, 2011 at 10:05 am

  FCP text gen
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  Andy Mees

  February 25, 2011 at 10:35 am

  And where are you judging the luminance shift … in the Canvas window or on an External display, rendered or unrendered?
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  Rafael Amador

  February 25, 2011 at 12:26 pm

  [Jason Fisher-Jones] “When I add a simple text layer, the brightness of the shot is reduced slightly. When the text cuts off, the shot gets lighter. What gives?”
  The default white on the text RGB at 100%, so they are not “Broadcast legal”.
  You can set R-G-B = 235 (instead of the default 255), or low the transparency of the text a bit (this is what I normally do).
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Jason Fisher

  February 25, 2011 at 5:36 pm

  It appears in the final Quicktime render. But it’s inconsistent, not always shifting despite exactly the same text effect being used. It’s driving me nuts. (As is the way FCP is messing up my audio levels keyframes, but that’s another post).

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