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[Lu Nelson]

Wow — OK, this is getting OT but very interesting to find out, for me anyway. When you say that at 100% quality it is RGB, does that mean that at 100% the superwhite values WOULD get clipped?

If so, I’m quite amazed — what is the rationale of having the codec perform in two completely different ways based on its quality setting? Anyway, just want to clarify — P-JPEG 75% is what Blackmagic calls “Online JPEG” and for which their software installer creates sequence presets in FCP, right? So I could actually use it as they’ve defined it?

Please feel free to e-mail me or start a new topic Graeme or refer me somewhere else if it makes more sense in continuing this.

I think someone needs to publish a complete white paper on the whole Photo-JPEG alternative for FCP, including the infamous P-JPEG ‘hack’ that allows real-time editing of the codec — it is more capable than I thought…

LMN

[Lu Nelson]

addendum: Graeme, do you know if Compressor behaves this way with PhotoJPEG at 75% as well, vis a vis superwhite and clipping?

Thanks for your expertise,

[Graeme Nattress]

I guess we all think APple should better document and support this codec in FCP. I’ll check out the 100% RGB version for clipping and get back to you.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Graeme Nattress]

I don’t use compressor much – you’ll have to perform that test yourself.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP