Broadcasting colours

[Bartek Skorupa]

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/broadcast_safe/video-tutorial.php

Bartek Skorupa
Warszawa, Poland

[Todd Kopriva]

I heard that the AE plug in is not that good.

The Broadcast Colors effect is fine for determining which colors are not broadcast-safe. The problems come when you depend on that effect to automatically make all of the color changes for you. In the documentation for that effect, I recommend using it as a diagnostic tool, but not to automatically change your color values.

Color Finesse has some features for keeping colors broadcast-safe.

This After Effects Community Help search for ‘broadcast colors’ pulls up several resources that can help you with this question, including the tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz here on the COW that Bartek mentioned.

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[Todd Kopriva]

I definitely agree with Dave that—whatever you use to find the out-of-range colors—you fix them yourself. You certainly don’t want a simplistic software algorithm to affect all colors when you only need to tweak one little thing.

I also agree that scopes are the best way to do the diagnosis. I haven’t used Scopo Gigio myself, but I’ve heard good things about it. If you don’t have it, though, the software scopes in Color Finesse are better than nothing.

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