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FCP Color Adjustments
Ok Im not sure if it is always the case but last night i was color grading a clip in FCP. The effects I used were basic levels adjustments color balance and color correction. When I achieved the look I wanted and play the clip after I render it out in the timeline I notice the color shifts slighty to a bit more greenish lighter tint to it. Then when I pause it the color goes back to the way I wanted it to look when I was adjusting it.
I have everything rendered out Option R I have no red bars just grayish blue and my timeline playback settings are set to Safe RT and playback is set to High. Any suggestions? Thanks
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Are you monitoring it on a broadcast monitor or just the computer monitor? If you export the file, does it look the way you want it to? What is the codec of the footage? What is your video processing set to in the sequence settings?
I’m not sure what causes that, but I’ve seen similar things before.
-Russ
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Ok im watching on a computer monitor but it still changes from paused its a tiny bit darker and when playing its slighty lighter with more green in the blacks. I added some slight green with 3 way CC but when paused it looks good. Its DV footage my sequence settings are set to playback High and Safe RT . Everything is rendered. I have yet to export it. Im guessing i shoudl use an animation codec which is basically Lossless to see if it looks the way it is paused in FCP.
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Yeah I’ve often seen this in FCP. Usually it also seems to play back a bit lighter as well – and I’ve seen this on Kona and Blackmagic outputs too.
One thing to try is to set your canvas window to play back at ‘100%’ and size the window so that you can see the whole frame. FCP’s scaler seems to be preview-quality only, and will hide a lot of things that appear on the output. I’ve also had problems where it was hiding scaling artefacts on an animation series that we were delivering, so that they ONLY showed up on the export, not even the canvas at 100%.
Another thing you can try though, is going into the sequence settings (apple-zero) and changing the Render Settings. Try setting it to High-Precision YUV and re-rendering, see if that helps. Or try all the options (my usual thing when I can’t figure out what’s going on!)
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