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Making a NTSC Color-safe “Palette” for our designers…
I’ve been tinkering around with this and color finesse for a while now and I still can’t seem to get this exactly how I want to. I’m trying to make a FullScreen palette for everyone to use for guaranteed video safe colors. This would be done by loading this file and eyedropping a color from it. Has this been done already and if so, where the heck is it? We are planning to use the Avid Adrenalines we have to clip the luma properly, we just need to make a color wheel now.
All the attempts I have made have been legal using Color Finesse but it doesn’t have all the color data (or at least the correct color data) that I need to make a picker for the boys and girls in designer land.
I’ve been less than thrilled with the patented Adobe NTSC Safe video filter which just needs to be either updated or replaced.
Any help would be vastly appreciated as I’ve been racking my brains getting this right.
-Rob
P.S. If this is much simpler that I am making it out to being then I might need a beer 😉
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Exactly!
Motion Graphics Animator and consumer of most things caffinated.
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But, I think there is a difference between safe upper and lower limits for broadcast/video and a true pallette of NTSC safe colors. The scopes will just protect the top and low ends I think and not analyze the entire spectrum unless the saturation gets out of hand.
In that case is there not a pre-made pallette from someone? If it is just the limits you seek, then I would think just let the designers do what they want as long as they are watching it on an NTSC monitor at the same time, then limit their video when they’re done.
Chris Smith
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I’m sure you are correct. I seem to remember sweeping through a color picker in PS and a little warning symbol would go on at different points of the picker when colors were not NTSC compatible. I seem to recall that these points weren’t at any luminance or saturation limits but were specific colors that NTSC will not reproduce. If this is the case it seems to warrant a pallete isolating the good colors. If this is not the case and NTSC can handle ALL colors except those that exceed saturation or luminance boundries, then yes just scopes/video limiters is all you would need.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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