[Patricia Ward]

Seamus,

Just came across your post while searching for info on gamut errors. Our story is strangely similar to yours so I was wondering if you’re still experiencing the pain of rejection due to gamut errors or come across a foolproof solution? We’ve been sending hundreds of TVCs out through Dubsat and Adstream for the last 5 years that we’ve done in After Effects, Final Cut, Lightwave 3D etc and about 2 months ago Adstream began rejecting them based on Gamut Errors (not dubsat, just adstream). Like you the stations never actually rejected the adds – only adstream. My theories were – 1. I upgraded to FC Studio 3 a couple of months ago and thought this may have changed something in the way colour space was rendered. 2. The move towards HD transmission was pushing the networks to tighten their guidelines. 3. Adstream installed new equipment that showed errors where no errors showed before. I’ve spoken directly to Adstream but they can’t advise a foolproof solution apart from an external vectorscope/waveform monitor but I was pretty sure the FCP RGB limiting filter would do the trick – however I used this yesterday and was rejected by adstream again. Any ideas appreciated.