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Color shifts in timeline. What the????
Have a question for everyone. I have loaded in an interview and when I hit stop the image gets brighter. When I hit play the image turns back darker. What is going on? I’ve taken off the wireframe and title safe option so that isn’t it.
Any help would be great. thanks
G5 dual 2gig
FCP 5.0.4
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11 Replies
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Are looking at the output on a video monitor?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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No. But why the heck does it do that? Its a pain in the a** and if you want to color correct its a bigger pain.
Avid here I come.thanks
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Bibi.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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Because you really shouldn’t try to color correct without a good quality video monitor that can be calibrated to color bars with a ‘blue only’ or ‘blue check’ feature. Computer monitors don’t display color in the same way that video monitors do. Also, the canvas output in FCP isn’t designed for any kind of critical viewing. Please consult your manual to see how to hook up a video monitor & speakers.
Arnie
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If you need to color correct, as Arnie said, you need a high quality Production Monitor. Even on an Avid.
YOu cannot color correct on ANY system riliably without one.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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its not titlesafe and wireframe overlays that tend to cause this, its usually the range check overlays.
do you have the range check overlays turned on? (Ctrl-Z to toggle on/off) -
Hey Guys
No argument with your advice but its not the issue at hand.
the particular bug being described is visible both on the Canvas and any external monitor … its not particulatly apparent when working with DV varients but is markedly more visible when working with uncompressed footage.put some uncompressed clips on an uncompressed timeline then turn on range check and see for yourselves
bizarre but true
Andy -
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Hi Mark,
this is absolutely normal. Check the system settings in Final Cut Pro.
You can find there a gamma correction. It’s not possible to turn this
off but what it does is to simulate the video gamma of your video
monitor at the canvas video on your computer monitor. If you’re
working in 10-bit the shift should be stronger than with 8-bit.Hope this helps …
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