[Mark Woods]

Thanks Bouke. That makes sense.

It also just occurred to me that FCP may not be sampling every single pixel in order to calculate the waveform. That would explain how minor problems managed to slip through.

[Mark Woods]

I think you may be misunderstanding my question. I do take a pride in my work and I now have the ability to analyze it at a pixel level and detect discrepancies. It was upon analyzing old work that I discovered some pixels were slightly out (15 instead of 16) that was too subtle to show up on the scopes.

My primary question is if 16-235 is absolute, what is the point of the various strictness settings on the Broadcast Safe filter? Why is FCP’s set to 105% by default? And why did neither of the ones I tested clip the out of range pixels I couldn’t see on the scopes?