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QT’s exported are too bright
I have been fighting this issue every since I switched to Final Cut. When I export a QT from Final cut studio (6.0.3) The resulting QT is so much brighter and washed out it is unusable. I have confirmed this with other users in my area and they are all baffled as well. Outputing through my Kona Card is fine everything is right. Any Ideas what could be wrong?
Kevin
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Where do you see the movie brighter?
When you open it in QT?
FC Canvas change the Gamma of the picture to fake the look in a monitor.
This is why they look darker than when open in QT player.
If you QT to do the same, you need to set in the Prefs: Enable Final Cut Studio Color Compatibility.
RafaelMac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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I have done this already. They still seem a little blown out in the whites, The problem is I send H264 files for approval all the time. If the viewer is not on a Mac that pref is not there, and I constantly have to tell clients to switch that preference. Then they don’t like the look of other QT Files they have. Then the famous response why do I have to do this with YOUR files. Why would apple put us through this?
Kevin
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[Kevin Christopher] “Why would apple put us through this? “
Seriously, It’s getting very very old.
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Kevin,
I read about a workaround this morning on Video Copilot:
https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/?p=197
with an original thread on CgSociety:
https://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=10&t=643310
The solution saves the gamma changes in the file itself, so clients on other machines should see what you see without the need for pref changes.
ciao,
wjmNow in post-production
The House That Jack Built
https://thehousethatjackbuilt.wordpress.comOS X.5.3
MacPro 8-core (2X 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400)
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I made as suggested in Video Copilot.
What I’m getting is a picture a bit more burned and saturated than the original. But no looking any better.
I sent the clips to a friend for him to watch him in his PC.
He said that the one with the standard parameters looks better.
Anyway I made the test without signs of gamma problems.
I’m not having any issue with the Gamma.
I CC in an external CRT monitor.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.
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