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NTSC DVD, 16×9. (720×480)

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Tried a 10-bit 4:2:2 sequence. No different result than the Animation sequence. I’m just asking too much of DVD compression.

Out of curiosity, what is the reason not to use Animation compressor in a sequence? Thanks for patience with pesky questions.

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In other words, Preview is fairly useless. Fair enough.

Could’ve sworn I tried clicking those top right boxes and it didn’t work before – that’s why I bothered posting about it. Worked this time though, go figure.

Thanks Jeremy.

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I understand how thickening the text would help, but how would using 10-bit help the resulting m2v file, since it has to go back to 8-bit anyway?

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Thanks for your responses, that’s pretty much what I expected to hear.

We’re never going to have a broadcast monitor here for the amount of video work we do. Isn’t there a decent ballpark workflow I can use? I mean, I do a lot of print work and printed CMYK artwork is more different from my RGB monitor than a television is, but I can still view a reliable simulation on my computer monitor. I presume that a bunch of properly calibrated broadcast monitors lined up in a row will display the same colour, brightness, etc. So surely a computer monitor can reasonably match a broadcast monitor in terms of colour and brightness at least as well as it can match a printed photograph – although it won’t preview interlacing of course.

Please understand that I have a pretty advanced understanding of colour spaces and colour management, but am new to video work. Thanks for bearing with me.

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Yes, but my graphic’s appearance in a final video will vary depending on which working space I am using when creating my graphic in Photoshop. What is the normal procedure? Do people simply use trial and error and see what it looks like on their broadcast monitor? “Oops, looks too saturated, better tone it down.”

In Photoshop, colour management is used to ensure that colours are properly defined, eg. this colour is a real colour (not just RGB numbers with no frame of reference). I recognize that in video, as with web design, graphics will appear different on different televisions, computer monitors, etc. However, with web design, there is still a frame of reference, i.e. “this is what it is supposed to look like, and it will look correct when reproduced on a properly calibrated monitor.”

Creating website graphics in Photoshop using my calibrated monitor and proper colour management, I know what my graphics will look like on other calibrated monitors. Is there no recommended colour space to use in Photoshop that will show me what my graphics are “supposed” to look like in NTSC? (Notwithstanding the popular phrase “Never The Same Colour”.)

Let me know if I should be posting this in the Final Cut Pro Basics forum instead. Your help is greatly appreciated. Cheers.