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Avid treatment of P2 vs. others
Hello, I opened up a P2 clip today in Panasonic’s P2CMS and put it side by side with the Avid and there is a noticeable difference in contrast, saturation, whatever. The clip in the Avid has no color effects or transcoding, it’s still native DVCPro HD. I’ve also noticed this difference in Final Cut. Can anyone explain?
Craig
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4 Replies
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I’m assuming it’s because your avid is showing the clip in 601 color space on your RGB computer monitor. how does it look on your external monitor?
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong though.
Scott Cumbo
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Scott, you need no correction. There is just no way to trust what is seen on a computer monitor. There is also no reason to believe that the P2CMS is right.
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All that, plus FCP changes the gamma on imnported clips from P2. I notices that when I needed to export some stuff that went P2->FCP->Avid, and comparing it to the Avid imports. From the looks of it, what you see in FCP might even have illegal levels. Check on the waveform/vectorscope.
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Thanks for the responses. I’ll definitely do some more robust experimentation with this.
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