Noah Kadner
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That would depend on your settings in Compressor but considering it’s highly compressed MPEG2 @ 720×480 vs the 1920×1080 ProRes or better I’m assuming you’re coming from… it is what it is.
Might want to confirm you’re doing something like: https://larryjordan.com/articles/compressor-dvd-compression-settings/
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i’d go ProRes so you have a solid enough source for the MPEG2 downconvert. It often looks better than going straight from a timeline to MPEG2- for whatever reason.
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The OP hasn’t posted since… so I’m thinking this was the *last* straw…
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A gamma shift where- in FCPX? Or in the finished footage playing out to a broadcast monitor?
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This might help:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204261
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What format is the footage? It might be getting rendered to a different color space than it was shot in originally. You’re only seeing that on the letterbox because its forcing a render vs. just playing back from the original format.
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Not sure how you do this without a hard letterbox. i.e. 4096X2160 with black bars top/bottom.
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Also SMPTE timecode may be old school but it works 100% of the time…
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