Timothy Ziegler
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Love that phrase. Can we send a memo to the agencies?
Timothy Ziegler
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Yeah. I’m not sure. It was a last minute decision to add these logos. And they are technically logos of partner of the client. So by the time it came from the agency from the client from the client’s partner, I’m sure it became a game of telephone. There is no longer an agency art director on this and they decided not to budget a graphics guy (since this is a rehash of an older spot). So, I’ve asked my producer to see about getting a different graphic, but by the time it gets through all those channels, we’re holding up our deliverables and missing our trafficking date.
Timothy Ziegler
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Yes. As I said, I’ve tried scaling in FCP and Photoshop, both yield the same ugly problem.
Timothy Ziegler
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Yes. I’m aware of where the vector scope is. The internal FCP scopes, my external SDI scopes and Color’s internal scopes all read it within broadcast spec. Even after attempting to clamp it with a Broadcast Safe filter in FCP, using the “NTSC Colors” filter in Photoshop, desaturating in FCP and Photoshop–still the issue is still there.
Something of note. Scaling seems to be playing variable. If I don’t shrink the Graphic and let it be gigantic in Final Cut, the artifacting is minute and perhaps even acceptable. But even after mocking it to be the size I want, by scaling in Photoshop, the problem is still the same.
Putting the graphic in a 10-bit 1080p sequence and scaling relative to the frame size also appears to make it better (not perfect, however). I just don’t want to upscale the footage behind the graphic for the final output.
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Thank you for the response. I just tried to blur the red channel on the tif, in both Photoshop and FCP. Still getting artifacts.
The logo with the biggest problem has whitish stripes as artifacts running in the reds and there is a slight ghosting around the edgeds. In fact, what’s really strange to me, If I swing the hue to another color (on only the red graphics) they still have the same issue. The only time it goes away, is when I go completely grey. It’s if the channel is tainted or something.
Timothy Ziegler
Editor, Colorist