[Mark Block]

Great article. I ran into this when finishing a PP project this week. (Usually, I work in Avid, or someone else does the finishing.) My display was set to Rec. 709 Gamma 2.4; Media Encoder made H.264 deliverables that were a bit washed out no my dipslay. I tried the QT Gamma Compensation.cube fix, and it worked well. Unfortunately, when I delivered the files (for web, not TV) the client thought they were too dark; basically, all the people doing approvals used computer monitors set to the default.

So I tested several workflows. The one that gives a great match is to set my display (MacBook Pro) to the Apple Color LCD default, color-grade with Lumetri, then apply the gamma-compensation LUT in Media Encoder. Now the deliverables looked perfect on a computer set to the Apple default — just like I saw in the Premiere monitor when color grading. As long as the deliverables are for the web, I don’t see a problem with that workflow.

[Mark Block]

This thread is years old now, but I just stumbled on it.

You can do Avid-style trimming with audio in the Tim Edit mode. Hold down the “K” key, then blip the “J” or “L” keys to trim back and forth while hearing one frame of audio at a time.

– Mark Block

[Mark Block]

Last year I spent all day trying to make this work. It didn’t.

I successfully edited the text file, and 640×480 appeared in Compressor as my custom-built MPEG-1 size, but when I ran Compressor the resulting file still came out 320×240. Weird. I just tried it again now with the new version of Compressor on Snow Leopard, but the result was the same.

The settings are in the user/library, not the main Library, if you want to give it a shot.

Take care – MarkB