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Walter Biscardi I`m stuck pls help!
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Heck, most of the time I send a reference movie to iDVD if it’s just a one off. If it has to be better, I use a reference movie directly in DVDSP with great results. DVDSP will compress the video for you. However it only creates aiffs, and has less options for video compression, but it’s all I need.
For a complex DVD project, where the DVD itself is the final product (not just the playback format) I’ll use compressor so I can create better sized audio files for better DVD performance.
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You don’t need the 3 way for blacks and whites, just the cc filter. But whatever works for you and whatever you’re comfortable with. If you can do it all with one filter then great. If no need to use 3 that’s fine too.
Just know your scopes and make sure you’re not cranking the whites or crushing the blacks. Obviously the art of color correction is far beyond the scope of a forum thread. But I go back to the setup issue. If you might possibly be setting your blacks at 7%, they might look dark on your computer monitor, but they’re going to be extremely washed out on a TV because by then they’re at 14 ire. Just in case you didn’t realize. Black is 0 in the computer. But the DVD player should bump the black to 7.5 on output from the analog of the DVD player. However, the monitor should be set so that 7.5 looks completely black. I’m not sure how Sydney is.
Did the DVD look like the canvas when both were viewed on the same computer monitor side by side?
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[Antonio Atzei] “I starting from scratch a hdv timeline and now I`m back calibrating the the black and also the whites.
What if: ( is just a theory )
1- use the first cc 3 way to calibrate blacks and whites
2- use the second filter cc3 way to do the skin tones
3- use a third filter cc 3 way to achieve that final look…..”That’s more or less how I do the CC here. Then when I’m done with the final look, I finish off with the Broadcast Safe, then Levels filters.
I have been using Colorista for about 6 months now as I have found that it’s cleaner than the 3 Way CC and it has power masks which have been a huge help on Good Eats.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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I have apologise was night over here so I went to sleep! At work now I mean my 8 to 5 job not at home… but I`ll keep an eye on the cow as I always do…
I noticed quite a few suggestions and I thank you all again for your help… this evening I`ll go back to my masterpiece … ha ha ha it mast ne a curse the title of the short is FOREVER….
ciao
Antonio AtzeiBABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
SYDNEY
POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
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Compressor most definitely shifts the Gamma (which makes the colours look washed out) when encoding MPEG-2. This has been mentioned many times in the DVDSP forum. Not sure of exact reason why, but it definitely does. I compensate with gamma and contrast adjustments in Compressor.
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[reel2reel] “Compressor most definitely shifts the Gamma (which makes the colours look washed out) when encoding MPEG-2. This has been mentioned many times in the DVDSP forum.”
James,
I did a search, and it seems you’re the one who mentioned the gamma shift on the DVDSP Forum. And, in the thread I read your assertion was disputed by another forum member who suspects issues in your workflow. I also believe there is most likely some other issue involved, and that your criticism of Compressor is unwarranted.
For the record, I have many different tools to choose from for encoding MPEG-2 on both MAC and PC, and if Compressor were causing gamma shifts I’d be using something else. However, I’ve encoded literally hundreds of DVDs with Compressor 2 over that last two years without the gamma shift you mention.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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Alexander
Txs for your input, For what I recall I did it from my assets window , right click on the sequence then exported to compressor. I did try to export from the timeline but the option to export to compressor it`s not there. I also tried a self contained but with the same result.
ciao
AntonioBABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
SYDNEY
POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
5.5GB RAM
1 TB OF MEMORY.FCStudio -
Walter
txs for your help.
Can I just make sure that I understood right?
I right click from FCP on the sequence where all my assets are then send to compressor….
grazie
ciao
Antonio AtzeiBABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
SYDNEY
POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
5.5GB RAM
1 TB OF MEMORY.FCStudio -
David
I`m back and grazing, ha ha! I`m just about to go ahead and start with the skin tones again… Can I check with you before I export to compressor…. Just to make sure my settings are right. As Walter said in regards exporting from FCP to compressor, I believe to do the same thing, such as right click and highlight the sentence and export to comp….. as simple as that.
Anyway I better have a couple of cups of coffe it`ll be a long night
I just like to master the way to produce a workflow from editing hdv to output to sd dvd, I have to say that I do love to cc as much …
txs
ciao
AntonioBABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
SYDNEY
POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
5.5GB RAM
1 TB OF MEMORY.FCStudio -
[David Roth Weiss] “For the record, I have many different tools to choose from for encoding MPEG-2 on both MAC and PC, and if Compressor were causing gamma shifts I’d be using something else. However, I’ve encoded literally hundreds of DVDs with Compressor 2 over that last two years without the gamma shift you mention.”
Have to agree here. Have never seen this issue in Compressor.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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