Graphics Black Spot!

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

are you seeing black spots on a TV screen or your monitor. If it’s only on the TV screen, you may be out of safe color range. If that’s the case, try this:

Here’s a trick I’ve used successfully in controling safe colors, which may help here…

For every piece of footage you bring in apply the Levels effect and set the following:

In Black: 16
In White: 235

On another adjustment layer on top of your final comp use the same effect with the following settings:

Out Black: 16
Out White: 235

Now I suspect that you could just make one final layer with 1 levels effect with all 4 settings, but I am not sure about the order of theeffect properties, so I don’t know if it’s a good idea.

The point of using this is to get rid of hot colors – you will see a difference on the computer screen- things get a bit duller, but you will barely see a difference on the TV, and the untrained eye will not notice a thing.

If it’s also on the monitor that you’re seeing this, than it beats the heck out of me… Sorry. Can you describe in more detail or post a screen shot?

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[Alex Bond]

It’s on the monitor too, even when you just play back using quicktime.

I’ve got round the problem by rendering it using the Media 100 codec but now i’ve got a bad video frame error (probably a slow or full drive) so I’ll have to try again i think, i’ll give those settings a go.

Unfotunately I can’t post a screen shot as the series hasn’t been aired yet but the black spot looks like an underscore and appears only on one field at a time (and i’ve only got one incidence in a 30 second clip – still a broadcast failure though)

thanks for the help

Alex.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Sounds like currupted footage. Check it outside AE.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Alex Bond]

Fixed it by rendering using video compressor in AE. Footage was only photoshop graphics which i made myself.