SOMEONE PLEASE HELP.

[Aaron Neitz]

1) are you watching all your video on a proper monitor (i.e. not the computer displays)

2) once you’ve exported a movie, can you bring it back into FCP and see the gamma shift in an A/B comparison?

[Paul Escandon]

The Quicktime player will do weird and unexpected things with gamma sometimes while viewing a movie on your computer’s screen – but those settings are not actually baked in and when you output to DVD things will be as you expected them to be (as long as you were monitoring via a color accurate display as you were editing). I’d try burning your master DVD first and seeing if you still have the problem that you’re noticing in the Quicktime player.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
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[Russell Lasson]

[Paul Escandon] “I’d try burning your master DVD first and seeing if you still have the problem that you’re noticing in the Quicktime player.”

I agree.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Tony Lee]

well i found out someone said to change the display settting in the system to 2.2 gamma
instead of 1.8 is this correct.

1.) i’m using my aja lhe for my monitor output. the output seem good as like my original footage look like.

2.) when you said A/B comparison ? when i export the video to quicktime. but when use the final export video quicktime to encore or output to dvd. on the television it look darker. can you tell why it doing this ?

3.) did another test. i gain the gamma up alitte bit to the video and it look close to my oringal footage. this was done to DVD

[Aaron Neitz]

A/B = export the quicktime. then IMPORT it back INTO final cut. Do you see a gamma shift compared to your original timeline?

What codec are you exporting to?

You’re using Encore? I’ve never used it, maybe there’s a gamma switch in there that needs to be dealt with? Some programs have a problem assuming that all QT is 1.8 gamma

[Chris Poisson]

Tony,

Also check, are you exporting with QuickTime Conversion or just QuickTime?

Have a wonderful day.

[Tony Lee]

Paul i notice you in CA, not to far from me. can i call you up. thanks.

did the export of a short video on timeline and bring back the export quicktime the video look fine. on aja output to monitor.

Notice the problem gamma shift when creating a mastering dvd .
using compressor 2.0 quicktime movie

also i will bring it in to adobe encore mac to trascoding

so it seem technical to me that it the transcoding to quicktime or to mpeg or h.264 having the gamma shift.

[Tony Lee]

I’m using quicktime export. from the timeline

[Paul Escandon]

Yeah you can give me a call my phone number is on my website: http://www.oremusproductions.com – I’m swamped today however so I might have to return your call depending on when you call.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Tony Lee]

Aaron Neitz

when you said codec. i;m not sure if you can select it when export to quicktime.

i using the aja lhe card. and when export i guess i using the default setting for that aja. is there something i did wrong ?