[Mauricio Arango]

Hi,
I’m in the same situation trying to figure the picture profile settings of footage coming from a sony a6300. I don’t have Adobe Bridge, but I do have FCPX, DaVinci Resolve and MediaInfo.app… none of them give me any information on the file’s metadata.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[Mauricio Arango]

I know this is an old thread… however I was looking for answers to a similar problem and came across it. Readers might find this explanation very clear, it gives more nuance to what Juan Salvo said: https://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?330094-Video-Levels-vs-Data-Levels-DEMYSTIFIED

[Mauricio Arango]

Jeremy,
Thank you for all the explanations. Not all the technicalities are completely clear to me but I get the importance of using broadcast monitors for final color corrections.
I raised my issue because every once in a while I work on some video projects -I mentioned before that I’m not a video/film professional- and this is the first time that I notice that FC and QT don’t show agreeable results, even if they were off as a whole.
I recently installed FC Studio 3 and I’m working on Leopard (10.5.x) so I thought I was missing a setting that would make FC and QT talk nicely to each other. Although this is also the first time I work with the ProRes codecs.
I think I’m going to rent a monitor for 1 or 2 days and an external card. Thank you for everything!
M.

[Mauricio Arango]

Thanks Chris for your kind reply.

I don’t do this professionally, but I understand that what you get out of a calibrated broadcast monitor cannot compare to what you see on a regular LCD computer display and that this is the only way to go when you are producing broadcast material.

Still it baffles me to think that apple would produce a product so tightly integrated with QT and that works properly only under such demanding work conditions. Does this mean that if you install FC on a computer your QT’s will never look like what you see on FC, unless you hook up a very expensive video system to it? I find that hard to stomach.

Anyways, I’m not here to debate one thing or the other. To me is clear I have a problem on my work flow and that FC and QT are not talking to each other correctly. By now my only practical solution is to continue watching my exported clips via VLC.

I have attached an image of how things compare among FC and the 2 players in mention if anyone wants to look at it.

Thanks for all the feedback.

[Mauricio Arango]

"You can't judge this properly without a capture device and a properly calibrated monitor"

1. If I understand you correctly, my camera records directly on flash cards, I just transfer files from the card to my computer. Hence I don’t need a capture device.
2. My monitor was calibrated 3 weeks ago with an external hardware calibrating tool.

I don’t have a broadcast monitor, but my guess is that if the monitor is the issue I should expect FCP and QT to show files that are both off, but also consistent.

In my case the QT files are looking a lot darker than the FC. At the same time the VLC player shows the same files looking identical to what FCP shows.