• Boris FX

  I get darker images when exporting for Boris Red

  Posted by Michael Allen on October 19, 2010 at 2:18 pm

  If I bring in a ProRes clip and add effects and then export. When I drop it in my FCP timeline, it looks darker. What am I doing worng?

  Thanks,
  Mike

  Peter Mcauley replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Matt Mullen

  October 19, 2010 at 3:24 pm

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  Peter Mcauley

  October 19, 2010 at 3:33 pm

  Hmmm … tough to diagnose without seeing the project and knowing what effects you are adding. Some effects will darken an image, even slightly, and of course this is obvious when you cut it back into the timeline. Take a look at the project specifics – are you altering the bit depth, ie, reducing a 10 bit clip in FCP into 8 bit in RED? If so then you can bump RED to 16 bits and avoid a roundoff. Take a look at the render settings in RED and make sure that they match the input clip that you took from FCP in regard to color depth, alpha support, compression etc.

  I hope this helps,

  Peter.

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