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Flip4Mac and Gamma
I will need to purchase Flip4mac to make .wmv to be watched in some of my clients PCs. My question is, Do F4M compensate for the different gamma Mac/PC so the clips won’t look to dark? It gots any filter or will be necesary a QT movie with the gamma already chaged?
Thanks in advance.
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WMF’s won’t automatically change the gamma levels for PC playback don’t think, so you’d need to do that manually with FCP or I think there may be a way to do it with flip4mac… not sure… I am sure though that Episode Pro has filters for the job.
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Do you need to boost or reduce gamma when exporting for a PC in WMV (through episode)?
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The gamma is there but it’s not a universal setting. You can get a good target but most monitors, especially projectors and laptops, are all different. We add a bit of brightness, too.
We created a 1 minute clip that had a wide range of chroma and scene values. We then ran it trough Flip using different settings. This is important: You’ve got to figure out a way to tell the files apart!
Use a file name or do what we did: super the brightness/gamma settings over the clip.bogiesan
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Compressor has the controls you’ll need for gamma, brightness and contrast. The Flip4Mac encoder works within Compressor. We turn gamma down and contrast up.
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Thanks everybody. The solution that Tom points, through Compressor can be the way. Although I’ll have a “google’ to Episode.
Cheers,
rafael
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