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grain sharpening on print to tape
Hello all,
I’m seeing an issue turning up when I print footage out to a 5500 HDCam Sr deck. We’re running tiger (10.4.11) FCP studio 2, and using Kona 3’s.
The Issue seems to be a grain ‘sharpening’. It seems to hit the grain structure and not as much the picture overall as much. Although there seems to be a very slight luminance shift as well. It looks fine on our panasonic BH monitors, but when capturing back from tapes that were printed out, it’s there and easy to see when A/B-ing the footage.
At this point, I’m not sure if it’s the render settings in fcp (10 bit YUV, RGB, superwhite vs white etc) Kona control panel (v 5x and 6x) settings, or on the deck itself.
The effect does not show up when capturing dailies, so I’m pretty sure it’s on the printing out and not on the capture.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried playing with various settings in all three, but have stumped myself.Troy Mac Neill
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3 Replies
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If it is only showing up on playback from tape, I would suspect a deck setting.
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I would concur. SR deck might have “enhancement” or some such nonsense turned on. Typically if everything is rendered in FCP, what you see is what it lays off.
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Thanks Guys,
I was getting there too, but just wanted to make sure before I go and do a factory defaults reset to get everything back to square one. (I thought) We did only an adjustment to the luma in order to solve an issue with the GDP Lut box in a fast paced environment, who knows what may have been left as a hidden ‘treat’ for me in the menu system that a reset would eliminate.
Thanks again!
tjmacTroy Mac Neill
HD Post Production and Tech
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