DaVinci + Avid gamma shifting

[Pepijn Klijs]

Avid probably thinks it’s a legal scaled clip. Try to render in legal range instead of full range and you should get a good result.

Editor/Colorist, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.pepijnklijs.nl

[Alex Ander]

You right, Pepijn…it;s should be that way, but when i was trying grade in legal it was strange thing… even if in waveform monitor my black was really crushed down. it was’nt black on the screen. And when i switched to full range mode it’s all became great. Black was black at “0” on waveform and on the screen… =\

and then Avid shifted gamma…

any idea why?

[Pepijn Klijs]

Are you watching on a reference monitor or just a computer screen?

Editor/Colorist, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.pepijnklijs.nl

[Alex Ander]

Reference plasma screen.

[Pepijn Klijs]

Maybe your monitor setting in resolve were set to full range when grading in legal scale? That could be the reason why it looked ‘gray’ in resolve when grading in legal.

Editor/Colorist, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.pepijnklijs.nl

[Chip Murphy]

I had this problem when I would export to a ProRes QT on MC5.5 under Rec 709. Re exported using DNxHD and all was fine.

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[Alex Ander]

O, thank You, Chip! i’ll try

[Søren Gensbøl]

Had the same problem when importing ProRes HQ into avid MC 6.

The easy solution to avoid the gamma shifts is to choose the Prores HQ format when importing, and make sure your project is set for Progressive or interlaced, the same as your source.

Then MC just rewraps the Prores video in an MXF container, and there is no gamma shifts or other nasty things

Cheers
Søren

[Alex Ander]

it’s good to know, Søren. Thank You!

so how to be in this case with RED files workflow as AMA ?

From Resolve we rendered as MXF 220 but get gamma shifting when relinked AMA RED in MC on davinci MXF render.