[Jamie Lejeune]

Many many thanks Juan! My main deliverables are DVD/BluRay/HDCAM-SR and the advice I got was to monitor at 2.4. Would you advise otherwise?
Any adivice on how to create or find an output LUT to get from 2.2 to 2.4?

[Jamie Lejeune]

Thank you for the tip Juan. When you export from Resolve as ProRes HQ, are setting it to video levels or data levels? I’m guessing data. Or, does Handbrake also expand video levels out to data levels in the conversion, in addition to the gamma and color matrix conversion?
And, is it really doing a proper 2.4 to 2.2 gamma conversion?

[Jamie Lejeune]

9.1 introduced a bug in Resolve’s 480p Quicktime rendering that remains in 9.1.3

Prior to 9.1, you could render a 1080p timeline out to an anamorphic 480p Quicktime that was perfect for compressing MPEG2’s for DVD. — best software downscaling I’ve ever found and very useful for those times hardware downscaling isn’t available. Since 9.1, the 480p Quicktime outputs now come out wrong — They either have the wrong pixel aspect flag, or they are cropped, I haven’t been able to figure out which. A few others have posted about this and received no response from Blackmagic Design.

Anyone at BMD know when this will be fixed?

[Jamie Lejeune]

Thanks Jan. P2CMS would work fine for me, but it doesn’t offload the lastclip.txt file that other posts have led me to believe is necessary.

What’s the official word on the lastclip.txt file? Do I need it? What purpose does it serve anyway?

If it is necessary, is there a way to make P2CMS offload it along with the contents folder?

Thanks again!

[Jamie Lejeune]

Can anyone out there confirm what the real, actual, official Panasonic approved method is for creating an archive of a P2 card?

I’ve read that using the Finder to copy P2 cards for archiving is a not approved, although this method does preserve the lastclip.txt file.

If, on the other hand, I ingest with P2CMS, which I would guess is the officially approved method because it’s Panasonic’s own program, it won’t copy over the lastclip.txt file that everyone says you need to keep when archiving P2.

So, what gives? What’s the right way? Am I to believe that Panasonic expects us to use P2CMS and say bye bye to the lastclip.txt file?

Jan, enlighten us please!

[Jamie Lejeune]

Thanks Matthew and Jan!

[Jamie Lejeune]

Yes, “best” is a relative term. I’ll have to be more specific.

Hmmm. Forgive my ignorance here, but I would assume that some scene setups will capture luminance and chrominance in a way that provides the most latitude in color correction while other scene files will constrain the available options. For example, I’m pretty sure if I crushed the blacks excessively with the master ped set at -100, that would then make it difficult during color correction to bring detail back into my shadows. Kinda the same way that, if I stuck a strong warming filter on the font of the camera, it would be more difficult to undue during color correction when I decided I didn’t like the look and wanted something more natural.

Is that correct? [Hint: this is the real rhetorical question ;)]

If that is correct, do the 0 settings on the HPX170 allow the most latitude in post? And, which of the GAMMA options would be the least constraining?

Thanks again!

[Jamie Lejeune]

Thanks Jeremy. I wish we had the ability to set this up, but it won’t be possible. I’ll be lucky if I can ensure that our shooters all set the proper frame rate! Not to knock any of them, they’re all wonderfully skilled, it’s just that I won’t always be able to deal directly with them and as directions are passed down the line, important things sometimes get lost along the way.

I guess what I should really be asking is this: What’s the best way to set up the HPX170 scene files so that our color corrector has the best image to work with during post?

Thanks!