Reliable FCP Braodcast Safe Filter

[Andy Mees]

For a one stop plugin you can get Eyeheight’s complianceSuiteFC : https://www.eyeheight.com/complianceSuite.asp … not cheap but the dogs bollocks of BS filters. I don’t use it myself but I have one of their hardware legalizers in the rack for those occasions when I really need it.

[Deleted User]

If you have Magic Bullet looks, you can just apply the “auto shoulder” tool which works better than the FCP filter.

Lee

SAMDOG Digital Post
Calgary, Alberta
Mac Pro 2.66 12-core 16gb ram • FSI LM1760W Monitor • Matrox MX02 • Caldigit HD One 8tb Raid • Euphonix MC Transport • Final Cut Studio 3 • Premiere Pro CS5

• Living my life one frame at a time •

[Matthew Bradshaw]

Eyeheight do a compliance suite but it isn’t cheap.
Matt.

[Matthew Bradshaw]

Sorry, about repeat post, maybe they do an echo filter too!
Matt.

[Richard Sanchez]

I would consider getting a Harris 860 Legalizer.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Mark Suszko]

Would it be a burden to memo the shooters to use their zebra stripe indicators and stop sending you over-exposed footage? 🙂

[Chris Borjis]

I need to ask, is the broadcast safe filter really that unreliable?

I’ve found that if I check the luma levels on all clips in a sequence and adjust down those that are out of bounds, then apply the safe filter on extremely conservative….I never have problems.

The question: is it only “unreliable” for those that don’t have time to color correct their sequences?

[Keith Mcgregor]

Using the built-in scopes and the 3-way color corrector is quick and easy, and quite reliable from my tests.
-Beef

Reality? What did you make it?

[Michael Gissing]

Chris, broadcast safe is unreliable after render. I use the free broadcast safe that comes from this suite of grading tools. Download the demo and the safe comes for free. It works for luma (Peak white and black level) and chroma.

https://www.thegradingsweet.com/w2/

There are some other interesting tools in the suite which you might like and pay for.

[Walter Biscardi]

Honestly Color is the best broadcast safe filter you have. If Color is crashing a lot, then you have a bad setup or you’re using a bad workflow to / from Color. We run dozens of shows per month through Color and it’s foolproof.

Though I will say before I got Color we only use Final Cut Pro for all our broadcast work and never had a show rejected due to levels outside of safe. The key is color correct, broadcast safe and levels filter to ensure you’re legal throughout.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media

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