Video saturated but looks right when playing in source window — possiblely Cineform?

[Harm Millaard]

color correction should be done on a properly corrected external monitor.

Harm Millaard

[Mike Behrens]

Thanks Harm.

I understand the value of a properly calibrated monitor, but what is happening here is that the video, while still, looks more faded relative to when it is playing back. Even if my monitor calibration is off, this relative difference in color would still be happening.

-Mike Behrens-

[Jim Gunn]

This is a well known Cineform issue with Aspect HD. It has been improved in recent versions, but still exists to varying degrees depending on which Cineform version you are using, (There is a new updates as of yesterday actually), and mostly depending on which video card and settings you are using in terms of overlays. etc. Cineform has their official support forum on another online digital video forum which has many threads that describes this in great detail and the steps you can take to minimize the color shift.

[Mike Behrens]

Thanks, Jim.

That affirms one of my two suspicions. I will upgrade and communicate with their tech support via the other forum site regarding specifics.

I didn’t think to patch it because I once had a similar problem with my final output to Quicktime.

-Mike Behrens-

[Tim Kolb]

NVIDIA display cards are typically where this issue is seen most obviously.

It’s a gamma issue and in the settings for the card, often it’s adjustable. I believe that CineForm has some data on their website about it…

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