COW Tutorials: After Effects Working with Broadcast-Safe Colors

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Thanks for the info Andrew.

did some work on a canopus dv system a while ago and there was an
option to expand or not to expand. Don’t know much about it, but it seemed
to work great. we just left everything as it was and when the tape was
checked on a scope it was just fine. no fouled up color anywhere.

in my tutorial, you’ll notice I said that sometimes it’s best to let the video editor handle this – As I mentioned, NLE’s often have tools geared towards this problem, so if you don’t know what you’re doing, then yeah, let people with the proper tools handle it. A lot of the editors I’ve worked with ahve told me not to worry about color safety because they handle all of that.

A lot of the time I use the trick in my tutorial because we often go straight from AE, to Quicktime, to a DDR (Digital Data Recorder to Tape) – with no NLE in the mix to lay off to tape. The file is transfered to the DDR harddrive and then frame-by-frame to tape. So we need to handle color safety ourself in those situations.

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