[Nick Wilcox-brown]

[Gary Adcock]” If you make your living being paid to deliver a professional product, you need to have the proper tools”.
Indeed, I do and I do – not yet up to speed in video as yet

“Apple is the only platform that maintains a default 1.8 gamma and it is about time they joined the rest of the world”.
But in many ways they seem by means of Quartz and Colorsync to have done so, just not with FCP? Even QT seems to be ‘on side’

“Video is not print, and the calibration system was set up for a universal standard that was repeatable at the inception, around 1958-1960 when color came into widespread use”.
The print production workflow was forced to change in the 90s; does the video world need the consistency and interoperability update that color management could bring?

Nick

Nick Wilcox-Brown,
Photographer and Consultant.
W: http://www.theimageconsultancy.com
W: http://www.nickwb.com

[Nick Wilcox-brown]

Gary,

Thanks for the interesting information in your posts. With respect, there is seemingly a great deal of confusion on gamma within Apple. Several high profile Apple people here in Europe loudly and publicly insist that 1.8 is dead and buried and that all systems should be calibrated to 2.2. This is certainly the norm for my native industry (photography).

I have come to video only recently and despite the appearance of Color in FCP6, there seems to be a huge discrepancy between the level of gear in use and until the MXO, the lack of calibration, bar the branded (and IMHO, overpriced) reference monitors. It seems strange that no has thought to bring colorsysnc to digital video and therefore eliminate the gamma and other potential color problems?

I have recently spent time searching for further clarification of gamma in FCP 5 and 6, but there is little ‘official’ information out there.

Nick.

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Nick Wilcox-Brown,
Photographer and Consultant.

W: http://www.theimageconsultancy.com
W: http://www.nickwb.com