[Ikarus79m]

I will try the animation codec later, but I doubt that will help. Episode Pro isn’t really any help to me either since i tcan’t deal with PSD or TIFF image sequence quicktimes. If I try to encode my Blackmagic 10bit or 8bit files with Episode Pro I get an equal bad gamma shift.

Playing some more with compressor I found out that if I apply a gamma value of 1.2 in the filter settings that I get a resulting image very similar to the input. Of course I am afraid that it might look to dark when played back with anything else but the quicktime player. If I play that vide with Firefefox for example it is too dark.

As I mentioned before the same problem seems to be affecting some of the trailers on the apple website. Here some screenshots:

Here is a screenshot from the Perfume playing in Quicktime:

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Here is that same shot playing in Firefox:

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The Eragon Trailer, however, looks fine fine in Quicktime:

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But is too dark in firefox:

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Do you have any idea what’s going on here?

[Ikarus79m]

Also, apple seems to have issues with this themselves. Check out the HD Eragon Trailer ( https://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/eragon/hd/ ) in Quicktime, it’s got deep rich blacks, everything is ok there. Now check out The Perfume HD ( https://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/perfume/hd/ ) trailer in Quicktime: Black’s aren’t 100% black. Now open that same trailer with Firefox on your mac and…voila…it’s got deep rich black… WTF? What is this?

[Ikarus79m]

Yes it’s the new setting. It’s the same result with the old setting though, besides that it’s smaller. I did both H.264 encodings in compressor. One with the Quicktime 7 preset, the other one with the IPod preset. I just don’t get it!

Also, if I play Quicktime 7 preset H.264 file in lets say Firefox insteas of Quicktime or Safari it play normal. I just don’t understand what’s going on here.

I also tired exporting to an 8-bit codec with the same result.

[Ikarus79m]

There is a Cineon/DPX Quicktime Component.I think that is what you might be looking for. Go here for a demo version:

https://www.gluetools.com/

Philipp

[Ikarus79m]

Actually, I would like to preserve my entire picture without cutting anything off at the top or bottom! Most Anaomorphic Hollywood Movies actually do put a small letterbox on top and bottom to compensate for 1.85 or 2.35 and 16:9. That’s why even on a widescreen TV you will often see letterboxes, even though smaller than on a regular 4:3!

One example is the “Constant Gardener” for example! I demuxed the DVD, importet it in After Effects and saw the small letterbox on top and bottom.

My question is, how to do the math for the letterboxes and also if a DVD is made in the 1:1 Pixel Aspect Ratio or 0.9 Pixel Aspect Ratio (Like the constant Gardener)

Hope someone knows 🙂