Hi All,
I've got a little last second surprise as I've been editing a piece I'm due to transfer tomorrow morning to Digibeta. The material was originally transferred/imported in DVCPro50 and as it was from a finished/delivered project, I thought the color correction had been done previously. I was just going to check a Motion graphic title I did, and when I opened the FCP scopes, nearly everything was off the scale in both the whites and the blacks!
I've been feverishly researching online, and my DMTS training discs, but I don't have a monitor (on order) other than my 23" cinema display. I've been going through the range check, using the "both" setting, and going through to bring each clip down to the check mark safe range, but according to the scopes it still looks like the whites are too high and the blacks are too low. Should/can I trust it? I wish I had more time, but this project came up last minute and was originally just for the web, where I wasn't going to have to worry about this.
Also, I was planning to apply the broadcast filter after I'm done with the range check, and color balancing each image (I'm using FCS 5.1); is this recommended? And which setting; conservative?
I know this has come up many times, in many forms, but I couldn't find anything specific to my question and I'm running out of time.
Thanks in advance!
~Chris