Jim Elliott
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My current thinking is that I will replace my LG ultrafine monitor (P3) with an sRGB monitor. That way, hopefully I won’t get massively over-saturated videos as there won’t be such a need for colour management
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Thanks, setting to sRGB does bump up the saturation of the quicktime/safari/chrome etc family, and brings it closer to the vlc/premiere colours, but I am wary that this is kinda false and that it won’t help the fact that this will encourage me to make less saturated videos … which is the problem for clients.
Im concerned about the new apple displays, mine included. Previous video projects now look very over-saturated in Premiere/VLC/firefox (which look almost exactly the same as eachother), and other players (quicktime, iPhone, iPad, chrome/safari Facebook/vimeo/youtube, Instagram) look comparatively desaturated (all very similar too each other though). This creates a very big problem going forward … If I colour-correct my videos to look good in Premiere (as before), my videos end up looking washed out on iPhone/chrome/safari/quicktime/instagram… I would have to grossly oversaturate in Premiere (at least thats what it looks like) to get an acceptable video in all those other formats. It’s all very depressing.
I didn’t have this problem on my 2012 Mac. I have checked on it again recently and although there is maybe a slight difference between premiere/VLC and quicktime/iphone etc … its like somehow on the new 2016 displays the differences between those groups are exaggerated due to the super-saturated-ness of whatever is making Premiere/VLC/firefox read the videos in that way.
2 days ago I handed a video to a client I have worked with for a long time producing similar videos, and they commented how desaturated and lifeless it looked compared to usual. This has never ever happened before. The video the client complained about was in the pic below, the one with the woman at the bottom. What you see here is a ‘corrected’ version. In premiere (left) I’m slightly more saturated than I would like, but it resulted in something the client was more happy as they (and all their customers) will watch the video with the players from the middle column (which still looks a bit yellow and anaemic to me. As for Firefox vimeo, compared to chrome/safari Vimeo … wow, just, wow…
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I think one of the complicating issues is that I have a brand new MacBook and a brand new monitor, both are p3 wide gamut. Am I better of working with an sRGB color space? There seems to be a lot less difference between, say, quicktime and premiere in sRGB than the same 2 programs with the P3 wide profile
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ok, the adapter worked! nice one. However, one more problem – I am recording using the 4 channel mode using the 2 internal mics and the left XLR only. The left XLR is only recording in mono (left side) and produces a stereo file, with the right side just dead.
When the unit is in ‘stereo’ mode i can copy across this mono signal using the ‘mono mix’ setting, giving me a sort of dual mono (l & r) file, but this ‘mono mix’ option is not available on the 4 channel menu???
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yeah, i’ve just bought one of those, am 50/50 as to whether it will work. It should do, but we’ll see. If not I may seriously consider getting 2 h1’s for the price of my h4n
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ah yes, goes seem very similar. Looks like it costs about $1500 to get that plug in though! Any cheaper options??
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Have also noticed that when i move the leak clip to a different track, it look fine BEFORE render (no colour change), but the colour/contrast change comes back again after render 🙁
