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Who uses ‘broadcast safe’?
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[R Walter] “Does it matter whether broadcast safe and levels are applied to each individual clip in a sequence or to a nested sequence as a whole.? I see both recommended in this thread.
“Nope. You can apply it to a nest as the last two items applied.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Hey Walter,
Love all of your insights!!!
In know this is an ancient thread… but I’m exporting an old project from FCP for broadcast. (These days I’m using other tools for CC, but this lovely project is still in FCP.) I applied the Broadcast Safe and Levels filters as you suggested… But what settings? I can see Broadcast Safe affecting the brights. Does Levels legalize the blacks?
One last question… In the Video Processing tab of sequence settings… I’ll what it does when you select Super Whites, but does that affect legality?
Thanks so much,
Tom
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Does it make sense to simply use broadcast safe at the end of every project, simply blanket applying it to the whole project in case you missed a stray excessive element?
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[Noam Osband] “Does it make sense to simply use broadcast safe at the end of every project, simply blanket applying it to the whole project in case you missed a stray excessive element?”
If you know how it works and what you’re doing, YES… If you try to use it as a way to avoid learning and using proper color correction, then the answer is NO.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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I usually color correct each clip, getting darks down to 0 and peaks at 100. But I figure if I’m making something with lots of clips….it’s possible I’ll miss something. I’d use it for that. For that purpose though, I’d just apply it as a last step before exporting. Does that seem sensical? Thanks for the help today David.
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[Noam Osband] “I usually color correct each clip, getting darks down to 0 and peaks at 100. But I figure if I’m making something with lots of clips….it’s possible I’ll miss something. I’d use it for that. For that purpose though, I’d just apply it as a last step before exporting. Does that seem sensical?”
Yes. However, as editors, unless we are under such tight deadlines there simply isn’t time to QC our work, you should never miss a single shot that’s not at least been corrected within broadcast legal bounds. Finishing requires precise attention to detail, otherwise your work will be rejected, and that typically does not sit well with clients or broadcasters, who will label you as sloppy, and that will follow you if you’re not extremely careful to avoid it.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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I use it to try to catch all the small things I might have missed. It isn’t 100% though…sadly
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