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Color Correction for the Web
Hi and thanks for reading this post. I’m wondering about color for the web. Should I be concerned about my colors and using video scopes if my content will only be online? Should I be adjusting my blacks and luminance to a certain level for web? Color I’m guessing can be over saturated, but I don’t like it that way. It’s the blacks mostly that I have problems with. Can someone tell me what level it should be at? Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
as far as I know, the 16-235 range is mostly devoted to broadcast and was originally thought for cathodic displays.
I would say that for the web, you should use the full range of available color levels from 0 to 255: there are so many different ways through which the final rendering is controlled/modified (ICC profiles, monitor settings, …), so the more color-space resolution you have in your video, the better.
Hope this helps,
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Thanks Frederic, yes your response is helpful and appreciated! I’ve never had to worry about these sort of things being a shooter and editor for news networks. I just shot and edited basic, but now I’ve moved on into commercial production for the web and TV broadcast and knew there were limits for broadcast, but didn’t quite understand the web limitations.
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I have another question about broadcast colors. If you are making a DVD for someone or for duplication and it’s not going to be broadcast, do you need to stay within broadcast colors anyways? I’m guessing yes, but I wanted to get a more experienced answer. Thanks!
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Kristopher,
You may be interested in this thread.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/942083#942083
I’ve been investigating these same questions. The safe answer for dvd, bluray, and broadcast is to always render in studio color space rgb 16-235. For web, the answer seems to be…it depends, and in some cases the only way to know for sure is to try both.
Hope this helps.
James
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