[Ed Dooley]

I don’t use it much either, but it’s there as a tool to use if you need it. I find that after doing the CC in FCP and exporting, then the main tool to use is the gamma setting. It almost always fixes the problem. In the example cited in this thread though, he’s having problems with his blacks, not overall gamma. Black restore can help that.
Ed

[Daniel Low] “In my experience, black and white restore are best avoided unless you have the time to step through every frame of your clip looking for excesses in the restore processes, or the setting are at the absolute minimums”

[Ed Dooley]

4:2:2 is only used for High Profile MPEG-2 anyway. Here’s a link to gamma, contrast, black and white restore, etc. that you might find helpful:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/preprocessing_hodgetts.html

Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Yes, that’s true, but same point, same result. I’m so U.S. centric. 🙂
Ed

[Daniel Low] “Actually it would be 720×576 if you use the (superior) PAL format rather than the 720×480 of NTSC.
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[Ed Dooley]

I’m not sure what you mean “compressor+episode”. All I can say is that Episode and Compressor both have pre-processing tools (gamma, restore black, etc.) to get the video looking the way you want. I use both products, and Bit-Vice and others, and they all look different (especially Bit-Vice’s gamma).
Ed

[philippe muller] “On a calibrated monitor (JVC DTV24L3D via Kona 3). The dvcpro-hd and hdv playbacks are ok on it and on QTplayer on the Mac as well as mpeg2 from compressor compressions but not from compreesor + episode”

[Ed Dooley]

You’re welcome!

[Ed Dooley]

The trick is to not believe what QT is telling you. It looks at the PAR flags and says it’s 720×404 when in fact it’s 720×480 anamorphic. Look at it through MPEGStreamclip (a free app if you don’t have it), and it will show you that it’s correct.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

What’s it being displayed on? Have you calibrated the monitor or projector?
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Veo que hay detrás de vídeo el título en la parte inferior. Sin embargo, el título dice que es DV60i, no 30p. Si es 60i entonces es entrelazado y que es lo que estamos viendo. Tienes que de-entrelazado de vídeo. Lo siento por mi Español.

Oh, I see, there’s video behind the title at the bottom. The video is 60i not 30P. You’re seeing interlacing. You have to de-interlace it for the web.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You can set any of them any way you want, play around with it till you get it the way you want. Do the math, if you have a setting of, say, 500kbs (or 62.5KBs), every minute of video will use 62.5KBx60seconds, or 3750KB, or 3.75MB.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

The video is 16×9? It looks much wider. Did you stretch it while editing or compressing?
Ed
Y el vídeo es 16×9? Parece mucho más amplio. ¿Lo que se extienden cuando se edita?