[Pixel Bulley]

-“I’ve heard that doing anything other than outputting the DPX files via Apple’s COLOR program, can result in whites being clipped. Anyone with experience care to comment on this? AJA?”

I too have been trying to convert FCP captured QT’s to DPX via apples color as well as AJA’s DPX translator. unfortunately the DPX translator wll only convert RGB qt’s to dpx..(our show shot 4:2:2 so yuv color) if its anything else it does not seem to successfully translate the clips. my work around was to use apple color. unfortunately i cannot get the same material out that is brought into the program. I have played with the settings done tests and with no success. it looks like apple color actually compresses the color space as opposed to actually clipping it…im still to new at the whole video/codec thing to really be to sure….but long answer short…ive had problems

[Pixel Bulley]

hi liam,

i am a vfx editor working or at least trying to streamline a digital workflow for a TV show. i am using FCP6 with glue tools (which i just purchased…i had to get the fellow that runs the company to update the code to allow it to read 10bit yuv files) a kona 3 car on a macpro, captured 4:2:2 from a sony crw 5500 hdcam sr deck. i have not tried to export dpx files yet from FCP yet, however i tried to export through quicktime which uses the same gluetools plugin and the images differ slightly from the original capture (gamma is affected?). i have been using color to render out sequences for artist as cineon and DPX however AE is unable to read the dpx files, and there is a color/gamma alteration in the cineon files. i have done a few tests but nothing that has resolved. has anyone hear of a similar problem exporting from color? Color seems also a little simple in its preferences as well…any hints from anyone?