Premium Member Vincent Sweeney Posted February 1, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted February 1, 2012 Advice would be much appreciated on this! I exported a 2 minute scene from a 1080 ProRes HQ timeline, and made it into the same ProRes HQ 1080 file. Filters had been applied and rendered out fully in the timeline. It's pretty obvious that the new file, when played back, has a contrast and saturation shift. The shadows were bought up and are slightly milky/more grainy, and the color has faded slightly. I assume this is pretty common when dealing with FCP. Is there a known fix or am I doing something wrong? Why would the codec-matching exported file not look exactly the same as my timeline footage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Burke Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Vincent, Did you export as a quicktime coversion or export as quicktime with current settings and make movie self contained checked? It is not normal for FCP to do this or at least I haven't encountered it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Vincent Sweeney Posted February 2, 2012 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 2, 2012 I just export a QT as a self contained movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Reis Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Hi, what are your sequence settings? Go to Sequence Settings > Video processing and look at your color processing settings. Are you rendering YUV or RBG? Also, are you able to view your quicktime via a hardware device such as a Kona or Decklink card via HDSI to a calibrated HDSI monitor? If you re import the clip into final cut, are you able to confirm the color shift using the built in vectorscope? Joshua Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I'm pretty sure this is a Quicktime issue, not FCP. Google Quicktime Gamma shift for more.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted March 11, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted March 11, 2012 This is indeed notorious in Quicktime. We really do have to get rid of that technology... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Gray Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Curious now... how does everyone export out of FCP? My typical process is FCP, send to color, send back to FCP, then export movie and work in compressor from there. And my timeline/footage settings are regular ProRes, 1080p. I haven't noticed any issues yet, but then again, my eyes probably aren't that sharp for these things yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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