PproCS5 – Chroma up to 120, and down to -20, is this a problem? How to correct if so?

[Ben G unguren]

If your colors are too rich, the MPEG encoding for the DVD won’t look good. In my experience, this is especially the case with reds, blues, and purples. At any rate, all you need to do is drop the saturation and it should be fine.

But you seem to know your stuff, and that seems pretty obvious… are you looking for a more involved solution?

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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[Aza Allen]

I do know a bit, but it’s a very uneven distribution of knowledge 😉

I played a bit with the Saturation, and that helped some, but does it need to stay completely within the 0-100 IRE levels on my waveform? For DVD, what is the best “safe zone” for chroma? (I know Luma needs to stay pretty tight to avoid the buzzing, and overblown highlights, etc. – but not as familiar with the Chroma levels)

and What tool/effect would best help in dealing with chroma levels? (As I stated previously, I used the Levels effect to help clean up the Luma values)

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[Jon Barrie]

Try Broadcast Colours and tinker with the settings there. make sure you set it to the Region format you are going out to. i usually add it to a nest of the final edit in an “export” seq that way is blankets across the whole edit in one hit instead of adding it to every clip instance.

ie: PAL or NTSC
You can set one up as the Luma safe limiter and another one to handle the chroma level limiter.

– JB

Jon Barrie
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