Paul Wright
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Hi John,
Thank you so much for checking this out and also the explanation of the percentage colors. Armed with that knowledge, I feel I am back in control! Yes, you confirm my gut feeling that the media player is to blame here. It’s a pity because it is likely to be the clients player too as VLC is a bit obscure for clients.
Will try your template suggestion. Thanks again
Best
Paul
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Hi John,
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my post and apologies for the poor construction of thoughts I threw at it this morning!
Yes I do mean once I have rendered either an mp4 or wmv(client preffered and worse than mp4) for the client to preview, their Corporate red(from sony generated solid color) is now orange on the same monitor used for vegas even after trying both sony levels plugins. Using MainConcept by the way.
Either I have not noticed this in the past or something has changed Maybe its the players or the removal of the ability to type in 198,44,22 and forget about it? What does 0.1,0.07,0.01 really mean? It doesn’t apply usefully to anything in my world.
Being a sound engineer, I understand the need to master material on calibrated equipment, but we are not colour correcting here, just trying to get a similar colour to the one we were given, at the view point – which in this case will be the same uncalibrated monitors I am using. If to the eye it looks close on a bunch of different monitors, then it good to go. And that is the way it used to be. Now its obviously different and I am expecting the client to notice.
I will put a link up a bit later to show the comparison.
Thanks once again for your reply and all your comments on this forum. It’s great to have someone with your knowledge taking time to advise.It is very appreciated. And of course hats completely off to Sony who have created a tool that is capable, robust and reliable and amazing in its ability to absorb anything you throw at it!
Best
Paul
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Making a corporate video for a client that will ultimately be supplied on DVD. Previews are delivered via the Internet in a suitable format such as wmv. Already have to be aware of colour issues here and one will be aware of the DVD final output being in video colour space. But the preview colours are way off, no matter what level plug in is applied. There has to be a straightfoward process that ensures color will remain the same as the supplied source.
Client supplies a master image of their logo which is white text on a red background. In Vegas, create a generated solid color based on the RGB values of the red from the image. Can’t do that anymore because there is no RGB model in the color picker. Eyedrop the image(already starting to guess..not good). So what is the Sony generated media in color space wise? DO I care? Not really but now it has become yet another disturbing “gotcha” in the workflow.
Not talking about esoteric colour grading. Just talking about the same red the client supplied when looked at on the same monitor.
THE SAME RED THE CLIENT SUPPLIED WHEN LOOKED AT ON THE SAME MONITOR
Client is looking at it on a standard computer monitor
I am also and so will the millions of people who may watch it.
As long as its the same rgb values, the color should look close enough to not be disturbing.But once you make a wmv,mp4 for client preview, no matter what you do, it doesn’t look the same on the same monitor?
